SAN FRANCISCO, CA (MARKET WIRE) Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), today announced that Riverbed(R) has been accepted in the Microsoft Protocol Optimization Licensing Program (POLP). Through this protocol implementation agreement, Microsoft gives Riverbed access to its intellectual property and technology so that Riverbed can build on its expertise and success accelerating and optimizing Microsoft Windows-based applications over the wide-area network (WAN). ...