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Asiana Airlines Deploys Riverbed's Steelhead Appliances to Improve Global Operations.


Bandwidth Usage Across Worldwide Network Reduced by More Than 60% and Application Response Time Improved Up to 10 Times

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Riverbed Technology's world headquarters is located in San Francisco, California.
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| Asiana Airlines (아시아나 항공 Asiana Hanggong KOSDAQ: 020560) (Formerly Seoul Airlines
 has selected and deployed Riverbed's Steelhead See RRAS. [R] wide-area data services (WDS Wds Words
WDS Wireless Distribution System (Joint Common Database)
WDS Wide-area Data Services
WDS Wireless Domain Services (Cisco Systems technology)
WDS Wavelength Dispersive Spectroscopy
) appliances to accelerate the performance of applications at its offices worldwide, including Korea, Russia, Japan, Vietnam, India, Uzbekistan, and Australia.

Asiana Airlines conducted multi-staged proof-of-concept tests on wide-area data services (WDS) solutions from Riverbed[R] and two other competitors, and chose Riverbed's Steelhead appliances after evaluating their performance, scalability, ease-of-use, and management capabilities.

With the implementation of Steelhead appliances, which enable LAN-like performance on remote office WAN lines, Asiana Airlines managed to decrease network utilization rate by more than 60%, achieving considerable speed and performance enhancements for its WAN-based applications.

"Since implementing the Steelhead appliances, application performance between our Russian and Japan offices has improved by up to 10 times, depending upon the applications," said Mr. Jang Byong Kil, manager of the system technology team at Asiana Airlines. "And particularly, most frequently used groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data.  applications such as e-mail, message board services and Web-based search applications have experienced dramatic improvements in response time Co downloads that used to take several minutes are now finished within seconds. Remote users now get LAN-like quality over the WAN."

About Steelhead Appliances

Riverbed's award-winning Steelhead appliances accelerate enterprise applications typically by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times between enterprise datacenters and remote offices. The Steelhead appliance's intelligent optimizations give companies that share data and collaborate between distributed offices significant performance improvements for a broad range of applications that are important to their businesses, offering these companies the ability to simplify IT infrastructure and realize significant capital and operational cost savings.

Unlike competing approaches that are built primarily on either a network-compression or storage (caching) philosophy (like many WAFS-only architectures), Steelhead appliances are based on the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS[TM]), which accelerates all TCP-based applications, including common applications like Windows([R]) file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. , MAPI (Mail API) A programming interface from Microsoft that enables a client application to send to and receive mail from Exchange Server or a Microsoft Mail (MS Mail) messaging system. Microsoft applications such as Outlook, the Exchange client and Microsoft Schedule use MAPI. , Microsoft SQL SQL
 in full Structured Query Language.

Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results.
 and DPM (Documents Per Minute) The number of paper documents that can be processed in one minute. , NFS (Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. See file sharing protocol and WebNFS.

NFS - Network File System
, NetApp([R]) SnapMirror([R]), Symantec[TM] NetBackup and FTP FTP
 in full file transfer protocol

Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to
, while adding incremental application-specific latency optimizations to minimize the impact of latency on key applications.

Riverbed's intelligent optimizations also enable remote office IT consolidation, WAN bandwidth optimization and acceleration of data replication and backup for disaster recovery.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements that 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. Such forward-looking statements include statements relating to relating to relate prepconcernant

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 Riverbed's ability to meet the needs of distributed organizations. 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; innovation by our competitors; 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. 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.

About Riverbed

Riverbed Technology is the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) 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.

Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead, RiOS, Interceptor and the Riverbed logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. All other trademarks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
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