Riverbed Technology

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.riverbed.com
Employees: 857
Employee growth: 37.6%

Riverbed Technology makes sure applications flow swiftly over networks. The company develops hardware and software that improves the performance of applications that are shared over networks. Its Steelhead network appliances can be scaled to fit customers ranging from small businesses to global enterprises. Riverbed's Steelhead Central Management Console software keeps track of Steelhead appliances across WANs, managing up to 500 appliances on one network. Riverbed's largest shareholders include Accel Partners (20%) and Lightspeed Venture Partners (20%).

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $333.3M
One year growth: 41.0%
Net income: $10.6M
Income growth: (28.4%)

Officers:
Chairman, President, and CEO: Jerry M. Kennelly
SVP Business Services and CFO: Randy S. Gottfried
CTO and Director: Steven (Steve) McCanne

Competitors:
Cisco Systems
F5 Networks
Juniper Networks

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Riverbed Technology, Inc

Type	Public (NASDAQ: RVBD)
Founded	2002
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, USA
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Jerry Kennelly (CEO) Steve McCanne (CTO) Eric Wolford (SVP Marketing and Business Development) Randy S. Gottfried (CFO) David M. Peranich (SVP Worldwide Sales) Gordon Chaffee (VP of Engineering) Stephen R. Smoot (VP of Technical Operations)
Industry	Networking hardware
Website	www.riverbed.com

Riverbed Technology designs and manufactures WAN optimization products.

Riverbed Technology's world headquarters is located in San Francisco, California.

Riverbed was founded in 2002 by Jerry Kennelly and Dr. Steve McCanne. Riverbed shipped its first product, the Steelhead appliance in May of 2004. The Steelhead appliance is a WAN optimization appliance that employs a combination of data reduction, TCP acceleration, and application Layer protocol optimizations. Riverbed's Steelhead appliance is installed symmetrically or on both sides of a network connection. In addition to the Steelhead appliance, which is aimed at data centers and branch offices, Riverbed sells Steelhead Mobile software that is deployed on laptop computers.

Some of Riverbed's competitors include: ApplianSys, Availl, Bluecoat, Certeon, Cisco, DBAM Systems, Expand Networks, Ipanema Technologies, Juniper Networks, Silver Peak Systems and Tacit Networks.

See also

• Network traffic measurement

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