Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. [NYSE: ARW], and Riverbed Technology [NASDAQ: RVBD], the information technology infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, have signed a North American distribution agreement.

Riverbed® wide-area network optimization solutions help to improve remote and mobile employee productivity, enable private clouds, and provide enterprise-wide network and application visibility, while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. By speeding the performance of applications between remote offices, private data centers and mobile workers, in some cases by up to 100 times, Riverbed WAN-optimization solutions enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration.

“Riverbed WAN-optimization solutions allow our resellers to reduce their customers’ capital and operating expenditures by eliminating remote server maintenance costs through the consolidation and virtualization of centralized and distributed application access,” said William Botti, president and chief operating officer of Arrow ECS’ Alternative Technology group. “Accelerating performance and improving user productivity while reducing cost is a significant value proposition for resellers.”

“Arrow ECS brings significant channel and market presence in the network management arena. We are confident that the combination of our world-class products and Arrow ECS’ ability to bring solutions to market will maximize the North American market opportunity,” said Dave M. Peranich, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Riverbed.

Products under the agreement include:

• Riverbed Steelhead® appliances and Steelhead Mobile for large, midsize and small offices, data centers and mobile clients;
• The Riverbed Services Platform, a virtualized platform within the Steelhead appliances that provides customers with the capability to run up to five additional local branch office services and applications, eliminating the need to deploy and maintain full-blown servers;
• The Central Management Console and Interceptor® appliance, helping to manage and scale Steelhead appliance deployments; and
• Cascade™ appliances, which are used for advanced network and application performance analysis and reporting.

Resellers can learn more about Riverbed products and pricing available through Arrow ECS by visiting www.ArrowECS.com or www.alttech.com, or by calling 800-544-7674 in the United States, or 866-240-9991 in Canada.

ABOUT ARROW ENTERPRISE COMPUTING SOLUTIONS

Arrow ECS, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. [NYSE: ARW], provides enterprise and midrange computing products, services and solutions to value-added resellers, system integrators, and independent software vendors. Based in Englewood, Colo., and with offices in 26 countries, Arrow ECS connects its customers to the world’s foremost technology suppliers, including HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, EMC, NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, and other leading storage networking, software, and security suppliers. Arrow ECS reported $4.9 billion in global enterprise computing solution sales in 2009. Subsidiaries include Asplenium, DNS, FINOVIA, Internet Security, ITL, LOGIX, REL and Soft-Tronik. Visit www.arrowecs.com for more information.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and services, statements relating to Riverbed’s expectations or goals regarding the North American market opportunity, 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 October 30, 2009. 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 IT infrastructure performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility – all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive. Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.

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