San Francisco, CA, October 7, 2008 – Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced its participation at the Fall 2008 Telework Exchange Town Hall Meeting taking place at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC on October 15, 2008. The Telework Exchange will address how government professionals can take telework to the next level and how technology enables telework adoption. With Riverbed® Steelhead® Mobile client software, many file downloads that once took mobile or remote workers an hour or more can be completed in minutes or seconds, resulting in increased employee efficiency and collaboration.

The number of mobile workers within the government sector is expected to increase as a result of the proposed House Telework Enhancement Act of 2008, which requires all US Federal agencies to mandate that all eligible employees have the ability to telework for a minimum of 20 percent of their work week. The Steelhead Mobile software client is intended to deliver LAN-like application performance and productivity to any employee, whether on the road, working from home or connected wirelessly in the office. In addition to accelerating application performance, Steelhead Mobile often reduces bandwidth requirements. Riverbed has performed rigorous compatibility testing of Steelhead Mobile with many of the most frequently used software applications. The Steelhead Mobile software is easy to install and manage and can be set up to be transparent to the user and the network.

Riverbed's participation at the Town Hall Meeting is a byproduct of the strong interest in and adoption of its solutions within the federal market. Riverbed works with many government organizations, ranging from one of the world's largest Navies that was able to achieve "near-terrestrial" performance of its key Web applications on all of its ships, to the U.S. Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA). Over 40 government organizations are successfully leveraging Riverbed WDS solutions to enable consolidation of global IT assets, speed data transfer for mobile field operations units, slash backup and data replication times by up to 90 percent, and/or reduce bandwidth costs and utilization.

Who:	Riverbed Technology
What:	Exhibiting at Fall 2008 Telework Exchange Town Hall Meeting
When:	October 15, 2008
Where:	Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, DC

To learn more about the performance of WDS and Steelhead Mobile, visit www.riverbed.com.

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, the Riverbed 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.

Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and services, and statements relating to Riverbed's ability to meet the needs of distributed organizations. These forward-looking statements 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. 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; fluctuations in demand, sales cycles and prices for our products and services; shortages or price fluctuations in our supply chain; 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. More information about these and other risks that may impact Riverbed's business are set forth in our Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on July 29, 2008. 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. Any future product, feature or related specification that may be referenced in this release are for information purposes only and are not commitments to deliver any technology or enhancement. Riverbed reserves the right to modify future product plans at any time.

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.

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