Bangkok--3 Apr--Spark Communications Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), announced today that it has launched its operations in Thailand as the company continues its expansion programme throughout Asia. Riverbedฎ entry into Thailand is driven by increasing customer and partner recognition of the importance of accelerating the performance of a broad range of applications and services. Riverbed WDS solutions speed the performance of applications and data transfers between distributed offices, and between offices and remote workers, by up to 100 times. The Thailand office will be headed by Vorkon Patra-Yanan, regional director, North ASEAN, who said: “As a company, we are focused on the development of progressive and evolutionary technology. Our Steelhead appliances accelerate the broadest range of applications in the industry, allowing companies to dramatically improve productivity while cutting costs.” Vorkon is tasked with building Riverbed relationships with partners to grow the demand for WDS among customers in Thailand. One of his key roles to educate the market and deliver the value proposition to key target industries. “Enterprises in Thailand have a significant number of IT programs underway that WDS would greatly enhance, including server consolidation, data replication, disaster recovery, virtualization, and mobile worker. In addition, there are a number of industry segments, such as call centres, outsourcing firms and service providers, which stand to gain huge benefits from WDS technology.” John Higgs, vice president, Asia Pacific, Riverbed said: “Thailand is an important market for multi-national companies. Riverbed WDS solutions would provide their far-flung operations with the best possible application performance and file download times, dramatically improving business productivity and enabling IT consolidation and data back up and replication.” “In the coming year, we intend to expand our network of resellers across the entire region to facilitate serving our customers in any location,” said Higgs. Steelhead Products Riverbed WDS solutions enable organizations of all sizes to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between data centers, remote offices and mobile workers by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, Riverbed’s award-winning Steelhead WDS products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Steelhead products have been deployed in organizations ranging from the world’s largest corporations with offices around the globe to small companies with a couple of sites that are just miles apart. To learn more, view Riverbed’s demo: www.riverbed.com/pr/jack. About Riverbed Riverbed Technology is the technology and market 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. For more information, please contact: Pannawat or Kalayapas Spark Communications Tel: 0-2653-2717-9 Fax: 0-2653-2720 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]