Riverbed Technology
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| Type | Public company (NASDAQ: RVBD) |
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| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Key people | Jerry Kennelly, CEO Steve McCanne, CTO |
| Industry | WAN Acceleration Equipment |
| Products | Steelhead appliances |
| Website | www.riverbed.com |
Riverbed Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: RVBD) 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. The company became a public company in 2006, and trades under RVBD on NASDAQ. Steelhead appliances are available worldwide directly from Riverbed and through global partners, including Hewlett-Packard and NEC.
InfoWorld named Steelhead a “Product of the Year” as the “Best WAN Accelerator” for 2005, 2006 and 2007 [1]. Gartner placed Riverbed in their 2006 leader's quadrant for WAN Acceleration devices [2].
