Riverbed Technology Overview
Company Headquarters: US
Founded: 2002
Workforce: ~1000
Company Working: Riverbed Technology develops solutions to the fundamental problems associated with information technology (IT) performance across wide area networks (WANs). The company offers solutions for branch offices, mobile workers, private data centers, private clouds, and cloud computing. Its product portfolio consists of Steelhead products and the Cascade product line. Also, its Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS), consists of hardware and software products that address the fundamental performance limitations of distributed computing environments. Riverbed’s flagship Steelhead products enable its customers to enhance the performance of their applications and access to their data across WANs, by increasing transmission speeds by 5 to 50 times and in some cases by up to 100 times.
Strategy
Riverbed is focusing on increasing its market share in the SD-WAN market. In June 2019, the company signed an agreement with Versa Networks. This agreement has strengthened Riverbed’s presence in the SD-WAN market and expanded the company’s reach and ability to address larger and more complex enterprise SD-WAN deployments in order to help businesses of all sizes and types transform their networks and compete in the digital era.
