IMC Selects Riverbed to Accelerate Application Performance Across MPLS Network

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jan 12 (MARKET WIRE) --
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the technology and market leader in
WAN optimization, today announced that International Meal Company, a
leading food services company in Latin America, has selected and deployed
Riverbed(R) Steelhead(R) appliances to accelerate the performance of
applications between distributed sites in Brazil.

IMC, which has 3,500 employees across 16 different brands, was formed
following Advent International's acquisition of Frango Assado, the leading
operator of highway restaurants in Brazil. In addition to the Frango
Assado properties, IMC holdings also include Viena, Brazil's leading
quick-casual and casual dining restaurant chain; Grupo RA, the No. 1
operator of restaurant concessions in Brazil's main airports; La Mansion,
a leading casual dining restaurant group in Mexico; Champs Elysees, a
Mexican operator of French restaurants and bistros; and IMC Caribe
(formerly Airport Shoppes), the leading airport restaurant and in-flight
catering group in Puerto Rico.

IMC worked in partnership with Servix, a Brazilian provider of IT
solutions, to deploy seven Steelhead appliances at locations across
Brazil. Following deployment of the appliances in August 2008, application
performance across IMC's wide area network (WAN) has improved by up to
400%.

IMC's Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) WAN connects the offices and
the stores at Congonhas, Guarulhos (SP), Confins (MG), and Salgado Filho
(RS) airports, an administrative unit in Rio de Janeiro, and other units
of the group of Viena restaurants. "It is a very broad geography.
Employees at these distributed sites share critical applications that are
deployed centrally, including our financial ERP, which experiences access
peaks during the monthly accounting closing period. Other centrally
located applications that are part of our daily operations include email
and access to our Intranet and Internet server," explains Marcos Roberto
Pasin, CIO at IMC.

According to Pasin, the faster access to critical applications provided by
Riverbed has improved both employee productivity and user satisfaction.
"WAN optimization from Riverbed provided benefits across our organization,
from improving IMC business processes and productivity to end user
satisfaction," added Pasin.

IMC expects an ROI of 15 months on its investment with Riverbed. IMC
considered adding additional expensive bandwidth to address its
performance issues; however, this approach would have required a monthly
investment, plus the link lease, with no guarantee of better network
performance. Additional bandwidth capacity would enable the
transportation of more data, but would not address the underlying network
and application issues that slow application performance over the WAN.

Steelhead Products

Riverbed solutions enable organizations of all sizes to overcome a host of
severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient
bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications
between data centers, remote offices and mobile workers by five to 50
times and in some cases up to 100 times, the Riverbed award-winning
Steelhead products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and
replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff
productivity and collaboration. Steelhead products have been deployed in
organizations ranging from the world's largest corporations with offices
around the globe to small companies with a couple of sites that are just
miles apart. To learn more, view Riverbed's demo:
www.riverbed.com/pr/jack.

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statements relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and
services, and statements relating to Riverbed's ability to meet the needs
of distributed organizations. These forward-looking statements involve
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or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information
about these and other risks that may impact Riverbed's business are set
forth in our Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on October 30, 2008. All
forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information
available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to
update these forward-looking statements. Any future product, feature or
related specification that may be referenced in this release are for
information purposes only and are not commitments to deliver any
technology or enhancement. Riverbed reserves the right to modify future
product plans at any time.

About Riverbed

Riverbed Technology is the technology and market leader in WAN
optimization solutions for companies worldwide. By enabling application
performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude
faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way
people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as
if they were local. Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD)
is available at www.riverbed.com.

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