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Riverbed Technology launches Asia Pacific operations

Riverbed Technology, the performance leader in application acceleration on wide area networks, announced the launch of its operations in the Asia Pacific region and the opening of their regional headquarters in Singapore on March 1. Riverbed has plans to open several offices in the Asia Pacific region shortly, including sites in China, India and Australia.

Riverbed is growing its staff in the region led by John Higgs, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific. Higgs joined Riverbed in 2004, and has close to twenty years experience in IT sales and marketing operations in Asia - primarily with Cisco, Cabletron, and Cray Communications where he established and headed the operations in South Asia, Asia Pacific and Japan respectively.

Higgs states, "I am extremely excited to be part of Riverbed. We are delivering real solutions that directly benefit our customers throughout Asia, and deliver immediate return on investment. IT architects are simply astounded by the performance of our Steelhead appliances.

It is a solution that is fundamentally changing the ground rules of what is possible with wide area networks and network design by removing the traditional restrictions caused by limited bandwidth and inefficient networking and application protocols."

Riverbed's Steelhead(TM) appliances improve the performance of applications over wide area networks (WANs) by up to 100 times.

Multi-national companies in Asia are especially susceptible to application performance problems on WANs because of the high cost of bandwidth; the very high latency inherent in satellite and transoceanic networks that severely degrades the throughput of applications.

Riverbed's multi-layer, patent-pending optimizations are the only WAN acceleration solutions that address all the aspects of application performance in one appliance: Steelhead appliances remove all redundant traffic from any application running over TCP which typically reduces WAN traffic by 60% to 95%.

They also optimize the behavior of TCP in high latency environments which will improve the performance of web applications, FTP, Lotus Notes and other similar applications. Lastly, Steelhead appliances have incremental application-specific optimizations for Microsoft Windows and Exchange.