Riverbed Technology

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Riverbed Technology, Inc.
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Type Public company (NASDAQ: RVBD)
Founded 2002
Headquarters San Francisco, California
Industry WAN Acceleration Equipment
Products Steelhead appliances
Website www.riverbed.com

Riverbed Technology, Inc. is a company dealing in wide area data services (WDS), a fast-growing product category that attempts to solve the problems of latency and bandwidth that plague a wide variety of applications over distributed networks.

Riverbed was founded in 2002 and is based in San Francisco, California.

InfoWorld named Steelhead a “Product of the Year” for 2005 as the “Best WAN Accelerator.” Steelhead appliances are available worldwide directly from Riverbed and through global partners, including HP.

Gartner placed Riverbed in their 2006 leader's quadrant for WAN Acceleration devices. The company became a public company in 2006, and trades under RVBD on NASDAQ.

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