Yesterday (on January 17, 2011), Level 3 Communications, the leading fiber-based communications and CDN services provider, announced that Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) honored it with the “Service Provider of the Year” and “Best Business Ethernet Service” awards for its excellent Ethernet-based services in the Caribbean and Latin America (CALA) region.
The MEF mentioned that Level 3 won the “Service Provider of the Year” based on the overall cumulative scores of various categories like business, marketing, network coverage, partnerships and technological prowess. As for the “Best Business Ethernet Service”, it was based on the various innovative services that the network provider provided to its customers in the CALA region. A panel of five global and regional analysts considered the various nominations and then selected Level 3 as the winner for these categories.
At its end, Level 3 mentioned that it was extremely happy to win the accolades, and mentioned that these awards were a reflection of Level 3’s efforts in meeting with the growing Ethernet demands of the CALA region.
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Created at January 18th, 2012 in Awards and Recognitions |
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Yesterday (on November 23, 2011), TeliaSonera, the leading Sweden-based Content Delivery Network and technology solutions provider, announced that it had been awarded the Best Investor Relations award by the Research firm Regi. The Company also won the Best Company in Large Cap category along with the Best IRO award for 2011.
TeliaSonera mentioned that it was honored to win the accolades. The Company also mentioned that the award signifies the efforts put in by Andreas Ekstrom, the Head of Investor Relations of the Company. TeliaSonera also said that winning this award shows that the Company is working very closely with its analysts and delivering well, while ensuring that the investors understand and are reacting positively to the various business decisions made by the Company. The award also re-affirms that the Company is well set on its strategic growth path.
Apart from this, TeliaSonera management also mentioned that Regi had considered about 47 large lap Companies of Sweden and hence winning the award amidst the high competition was extremely heartening to the Company.
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Created at November 24th, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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This Thursday (on November 17, 2011), SoftLayer Technologies, the leading provider of cloud, dedicated and managed hosting services and solutions, announced that the Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship had named it as the winner for the 2011 Dallas 100 Entrepreneur award. This award identifies SoftLayer as the fastest growing Company in the Dallas Region.
The awards program considers and shortlists the Companies based on various parameters including HQ in Dallas area, sales and growth history of last 3 years, the Company’s credit report and balance sheet along with other requirements. Based on these parameters the Companies are rated, and with its exceptional growth, global reach and more than 23 thousand customers around the globe, SoftLayer ranked first not only in the Technology domain, but also was rated the fastest growing Company among all the competitors.
At its end, SoftLayer mentioned that it was honored for winning this award, and mentioned that while it was named fifth last year, it moving to first position this year shows that the Company’s efforts of expansion and better quality delivery are paying off.
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Created at November 19th, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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Last Thursday (on November 10, 2011), Wowza Media Systems, the “Any Screen Done Right” media server solutions provider, announced that its Wowza Media Server 3 had won the New Product Technology award at the 2011 Worship Facilities Conference and Expo (WFX) for its broadcasting and streaming reliability, scalability and feature support.
Wowza mentioned that the Wowza Media Server 3 solution has been an excellent addition for the Company with its high performance live and on-demand streaming capabilities in multiple formats and screens and support for adaptive bit rate streaming. Worship Facilities mentioned that its judging panel consisting of deemed editors from Worship Facilities Magazine, Church Productions magazine and Worship Facility designer, along with WFX advisory committee members selected Wowza Server 3 as the WFX winner. The announcement was done at WFX, Dallas on last Wednesday, i.e. November 9, 2011.
At its end, Wowza mentioned that it was extremely happy for the honor and this win for Wowza is yet another feather to the cap of Wowza Server 3, which has already received accolades from Streaming Media European Readers’ Choice competition.
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Created at November 16th, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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Yesterday (on October 24, 2011), Internap Network Services Corporation, one of the leading providers of Content Delivery Networks and other intelligent IT infrastructure services, announced that IDG’s Computerworld, which is among the leaders in providing peer perspective and IT leadership and business results, had selected as one of the top Green IT Organizations.
Since the last 4 years, IDG’s Computerworld has been doing various surveys and checking the practices and the strategies that the organizations are implementing to reduce their overall carbon footprint. Among the various things done by Internap include the initiatives like Reflective roofing, variable speed fans, ultrasonic humidification and use of recycled water for making its DataCenters have minimal environmental imbalance. These green practices make Internap’s DataCenters have extremely high certifications from LEED, Energy Star and Green Globes and reduce the Company’s overall carbon footprint.
Computerworld mentioned that Internap was among the Top-12 Green-IT vendors owing to its innovative infrastructure, and this information was published in the October 24 issue of Computerworld under the annual Top Green-IT Organizations feature.
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Created at October 25th, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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Last Thursday (on October 20, 2011), Wowza Media Systems, the leading provider of “Any Screen Done Right” media server solutions, announced that its Wowza Media Server 3 had won two European Readers’ Choice Awards from Streaming Media magazine. The Wowza Server 3 was awarded with Best Server Hardware/Software and the Best Streaming Innovation of 2011 awards.
The winning of the awards in these categories means that not only do the European Streaming Media readers find Wowza Media Server 3 among the best solutions for delivering their rich media content online, but also the innovation award suggests that customers have found Wowza Media Server 3 better as compared to the previously popular Wowza Media Server 2. Wowza mentioned that it had been getting awards from Streaming Media for the fourth year in the row, and also got the innovation award the third time in a row, thus ensuring the brand of its solution.
Wowza said that since Streaming Media had more than 281 nominees in 13 different categories, winning in 2 of them was surely an honor.
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Created at October 24th, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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This Thursday (on October 20, 2011), EdgeCast Networks, the world’s fastest and most reliable Content Delivery Network services provider, announced that it had won two awards, one from Streaming Media magazine, which had recognized its technology leadership and one from Deloitte that recognized its revenue growth over the last 3 years.
Deloitte had considered EdgeCast Networks for one of its “Technology Rising Stars” for the year 2011 for the list that covers the fastest growing private Companies that were launched in last 3-4 years and deal with technology, communications, media and life sciences among others. On the other hand, Streaming Media magazine considered the various Companies that have revolutionized the streaming media and online video industry on the whole, and for its innovative and high-performing technology, EdgeCast Networks made it to the Streaming Media 100.
At its end, EdgeCast Networks mentioned that it was honored to have been given such high accolades and that the Company would strive to providing more innovative and optimized technological solutions to their customers.
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Created at October 22nd, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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This Monday (on October 17, 2011), CloudFlare, one of the leading web performance and security solutions providers, announced that for its innovative website optimizers and web security features that protect websites against cyber attacks, the Wall Street Journal had named it the Most Innovative Network & Internet Technology Company of 2011.
Started in September 2010 and in almost a year of its launch, CloudFlare is now used by more than 100 thousand websites and it delivers more than 15 billion pages per month from its 14 data centers. Since its launch, the Company had stopped more than 100 billion attacks with its security offerings and the CDN leverages the Company’s global network to speed up page delivery, and it is these features and offerings of CloudFlare that made it recognized as the Most Innovative Network & Internet Technology Company of 2011.
The CloudFlare management mentioned that it was honored to be bestowed with Wall Street Journal’s Innovation Award and that the Company would continue its efforts to help improve performance and security of all types of websites.
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Created at October 20th, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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Last Thursday (on September 1, 2011), CloudFlare, one of the most leading Companies in the web performance and security solutions, announced that it has been recognized as a 2012 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. The Company mentioned that it was selected for its mission of improving performance and security of every website on the Internet.
As part of its services, CloudFlare makes the web faster and more secure for more than 350 million visitors every month, and has stopped more than 1 billion attacks on its customers’ websites so far. The Company operates 14 Data Centers around the globe and even provides some services for free, which has resulted in its extreme popularity. World Economic Forum mentioned that it had received thousands of nominations and CloudFlare was selected as one among the 25 winners for this year.
At its end, CloudFlare mentioned that it was honored to be nominated as one of the pioneers, the list which included the various Internet-changing Companies like PayPal, Google, Twitter and Mozilla in the past.
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Created at September 6th, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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This Thursday (on August 25, 2011), Level 3 Communications, the leading provider of international fiber-based communication services and Content Delivery Network solutions, announced that Channel Partners Magazine had identified it as a top 50 channel partner and included it in the magazine’s annual list of Top 50 Channel programs as well.
Channel Magazine mentioned that it had selected more than 250 Companies, which included carriers, resellers, hardware and software vendors and other related agencies and then 50 of them were shortlisted further based on feedback and survey responses from 1500 qualified channel partners. Level 3 got shortlisted to the Top 50, and this recognition marks the fourth consecutive year for Level 3’s recognition as a top channel program provider.
Level 3 mentioned that it was extremely happy with the honor and the winner’s information will be featured in September 2011 issue of Channel Partners magazine, and a downloadable Channel Program Guide and the winner were announced at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo on August 24.
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Created at August 27th, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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This report contains an analysis on the top CDN's in the industry.