Riverbed to Showcase Award-Winning WAN Optimization Solutions at LandWarNet 2009

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - August 18, 2009) - Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the
IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and
storage, announced its participation at LandWarNet, taking place Aug. 18 -
20, 2009 at the Greater Ft. Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center in
Ft. Lauderdale, FL. At the Riverbed® booth (#1030), the company will
demonstrate its award-winning wide area network (WAN) optimization
solutions, illustrating how WAN optimization and application acceleration
can enable joint operations and support with fast and secure access to
networked data, regardless of location.

LandWarNet 2009 is the premier forum to bring the Department of Defense
(DoD) community, specifically the Army, together to openly communicate
commercial best practices and government implementations. Discussions at
LandWarNet enable information sharing between Army customers and DoD,
Joint, Coalition, and Federal users and organizations. The conference also
showcases solutions that provide assured access to secure information in
order to promote situational awareness and superior decision-making.

Government customers use Riverbed Steelhead® appliances to accelerate
applications to remote locations for timely access to mission-critical
information. Riverbed WAN optimization solutions can enable consolidation
of global IT assets, speed data transfer for mobile field operations units,
decrease backup and data replication times by up to 90 percent, and reduce
bandwidth costs and utilization. For more information, visit the Riverbed
booth for a live demo of its award-winning WAN optimization solutions.

Who: Riverbed Technology
What: Exhibiting at LandWarNet 2009
When: August 18 - 20, 2009
Where: Broward County Convention Center
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Booth #1030

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including
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
risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully
materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ
materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to
differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements include our ability to react to trends and challenges in our
business and the markets in which we operate; our ability to anticipate
market needs or develop new or enhanced products to meet those needs; the
adoption rate of our products; our ability to establish and maintain
successful relationships with our distribution partners; our ability to
compete in our industry; fluctuations in demand, sales cycles and prices
for our products and services; shortages or price fluctuations in our
supply chain; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights;
general political, economic and market conditions and events; and other
risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with 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 July 30, 2009. 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 IT infrastructure performance company. The
Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates
businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application
performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network
and application visibility -- all while eliminating the need to increase
bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed
operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less
expensive and more responsive. Additional information about Riverbed
(NASDAQ: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com

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