Network Innovation Award

Emerging Virtualization Technologies

• Vantage DX brings digital experience monitoring to Teams

  Martello Technologies' Vantage DX platform has won our Network Innovation Award for its ability to proactively monitor Microsoft Teams UX in hybrid work environments.  Continue Reading

• 5 networking startups helping enterprises adapt and prepare

  Even in a global pandemic, these five networking startups continue to impress. Learn how their innovative technologies can help enterprises prepare for unforeseen challenges.  Continue Reading

• Gluware automation tech shines in brownfield networks

  Gluware's intelligent network automation technology helps enterprises outgrow manual configurations, even in technically complex, multivendor brownfield environments.  Continue Reading

• New Celona 5G platform nets TechTarget innovation award

  Celona 5G technology uses Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum to bring private mobile networking to the enterprise, enabling mission-critical automation and IoT.  Continue Reading

• Open Systems' SASE tech wins TechTarget innovation award

  Open Systems' SASE platform helped tens of thousands of workers gain secure remote access during the COVID-19 crisis. Learn more about our new Network Innovation Award winner.  Continue Reading

• DriveNets' disaggregated router tech wins innovation award

  Networking startup DriveNets is bringing cloud principles to carrier networks with disaggregated router technology that could change how providers manage their infrastructure.  Continue Reading

• Networking startup Arrcus wins TechTarget innovation award

  Networking startup Arrcus aims to disrupt the industry with its software-based routing technology. Here's how the young company plans to go toe-to-toe with industry giants.  Continue Reading

• Volta Networks wins NIA for cloud-based routing

  Better together? Not when it comes to routing software and hardware. Networking startup Volta Networks' disaggregated routing platform promises to increase flexibility and lowers costs.  Continue Reading

• Itential's network automation software wins TechTarget award

  At the ONUG Fall 2019 conference in New York, one word was on everyone's lips: automation. Itential's infrastructure-as-code platform helps turn those four syllables into action.  Continue Reading

• Ciena's Blue Planet automation suite wins TechTarget award

  Ciena's Blue Planet software suite has won SearchNetworking's Network Innovation Award for enabling intelligent automation and network service orchestration across large, multivendor networks.  Continue Reading

• F5 Super-NetOps initiative wins Network Innovation Award

  The F5 Super-NetOps training initiative has won TechTarget's Network Innovation Award for its efforts to help today's networking pros develop skills for tomorrow.  Continue Reading

• Forward Networks' software enables intent-based networking

  TechTarget has named Forward Networks a winner of its Network Innovation Award. Learn how the company's visibility and verification software supports intent-based networking.  Continue Reading

• NetInsight enables proactive network performance monitoring

  With NetInsight, network performance monitoring and analytics get smart. The cloud-based subscription service tells customers how their Wi-Fi stacks up and exactly how to improve.  Continue Reading

• 8x8 X Series platform wins Network Innovation Award

  The 8x8 X Series combines unified communications and contact center technologies into a single cloud-based platform.  Continue Reading

• Aerohive's Atom, 802.11ax access points win innovation award

  The winner of this month's Network Innovation Award, Aerohive Networks, has already begun shipping its new 802.11ax wireless APs and its plug-and-play 802.11ac Atom AP.  Continue Reading

• Dolby Voice Room conferencing product wins Network Innovation Award

  Dolby's new video conferencing product, Dolby Voice Room, targets the huddle room market, while touting high-end audio capabilities and ease of management.  Continue Reading

• Barefoot Networks' Ethernet switch chip wins Network Innovation Award

  Tofino, a high-speed programmable chip that brings software-defined networking capabilities to the forwarding plane, aims to revolutionize the network.  Continue Reading

• Nyansa user experience tools platform garners Network Innovation Award

  Nyansa uses a blend of cloud-based analytics, real-time DPI and an easy-to-understand console for its user experience tools platform.  Continue Reading

• Data-center-to-cloud, direct-connection platform wins innovation award

  The Console networking platform bypasses the public internet to offer subscribers on-demand, one-to-one connections with cloud providers and other partners.  Continue Reading

• Avi software ADC gets Innovation Award

  Avi Networks' software ADC brought new features and capabilities to the load balancing and application delivery market.  Continue Reading

• Fiber Mountain Glass Core embraces Layer 1 devices, software

  In the world of SDN, Layers 2 and 3 tend to take all the glory. But Fiber Mountain's Glass Core architecture puts the focus on the physical layer for the first time.  Continue Reading

• NIA: Midokura's open source MidoNet doesn't hold back

  Midokura wins this month's Network Innovation Award for MidoNet Community Edition, an open source version of its flagship product.  Continue Reading

• NIA: Saisei's FlowCommand SDN appliance secures network flows

  Saisei, our latest Network Innovation Award winner, uses its FlowCommand virtual SDN appliance to control network flows and prevent individual users from hogging bandwidth.  Continue Reading