Focusing on implementing a Zero Branch environment through SD-WAN innovation

Riverbed Technology, an application performance innovation company, has marked its 10th anniversary of entering the Korean market.

Riverbed, which entered the Korean WAN accelerator market in November 2005 with data deduplication technology—a groundbreaking new technology at the time—has achieved steady growth in this market over the past decade and has solidly expanded its presence. With its first sales contract outside of the U.S. being signed with a Korean customer, the company established a branch office in Korea first and engaged in active business and customer support activities; as a result, it has now secured an unrivaled position in the WAN optimization market.

President Kim Jae-wook stated, “Over the past 10 years, Riverbed has secured all of Korea’s top 10 conglomerates as clients and has contributed to helping these domestic companies enhance performance, reduce costs, and improve their global competitiveness in overseas networks and remote network environments for branches and offices.” He also explained, “Along with WAN optimization solutions, by including application and network performance management solutions in our key product roadmap through strategic acquisitions and investments, we are now able to support enterprise customers in achieving application performance innovation in the cloud era.”

President Kim Jae-wook stated, “As a result of solidly laying the foundation for growth since our establishment, we have achieved remarkable results, exceeding our business targets every year for the past four to five years.” He added, “While large corporations focused on global business formed our main customer base in the early stages of our business, we have now succeeded in expanding our customer base to include small and medium-sized enterprises across various industries such as finance, education, retail, public sector, hospitals, and telecommunications. Furthermore, we have expanded our application areas by supplying acceleration performance not only for remote branch WAN acceleration but also for disaster recovery and retail POS terminals.”




Along with this, he mentioned recording over $1 billion in revenue, securing 27,000 customers, and expanding the product roadmap through successful mergers and acquisitions. He recalled, “The acquisition of MAZU in 2009 and CACE Technologies in 2010 led to the development of Riverbed’s Network Performance Management (NPM) product line, and the acquisition of Opnet in 2012 secured Application Performance Management (APM) products, allowing Riverbed to successfully evolve from a WAN optimization solution provider into an application performance innovation company.” Recently, it has also established a more flexible business structure for customers through privatization by private equity firms.

Riverbed predicts that as enterprise networks and application performance infrastructure have established themselves as the foundation of corporate competitiveness, network architectures will evolve toward software-defined, application-centric, and business-intent-based approaches. Anticipating that the SD-WAN era will arrive in earnest within a few years, the company stated that it will focus on implementing a Zero Branch environment—where IT resources are not required at the branch level—through SD-WAN innovation.

President Kim Jae-wook stated, “Riverbed has been preparing for SD-WAN by evolving its products over the past few years, starting with WAN optimization, and will invest more R&D resources in the future to lead innovation in new markets such as SD-WAN and application performance infrastructure.” He added, “Next year, we plan to launch a product called ‘ Tiger’ (pseudonym) , an NFV-based integrated branch solution that includes router functions, for this SD-WAN market.” Tiger will include not only routing capabilities but also branch services from Riverbed and third-party partners, and is expected to provide application visibility and control capabilities for branches in SD-WAN environments.