NetEvents announces Technology Leaders 2007 Awards

Seven technology companies received NetEvents’ Technology Leaders 2007 awards, as part of the NetEvents European Press and Analyst Summit taking place this week in Evian, France. The winners were decided by an independent panel of more than 30 industry analysts and senior press currently based in Europe. Cash proceeds from the entry fees go to the American Cancer Society and the Prostate Project Foundation for Cancer Research.

“We’ve now raised $64,000 for these two very worthwhile charities and established these as awards as one of the IT industry’s most prestigious awards in Europe,” said Mark Fox, NetEvents Founder. “We would like to thank the European press and analyst community for helping make our awards such a success. The NetEvents Technology Leader awards give valuable recognition for the winners as they are judged by over 30 leading technology press and analysts – more than any other European technology award.”

Award winners are:

• Zeus was named the ”Most Innovative Technology Company”
• Sourcefire’s RNA “Real-time Network Awareness” won the ”Security Product” category for “the most complete solution of all three candidates… an all-round product that provides in-depth solution suitable for a large cross-section of users”.
• DiVitas’ Mobile-to-Mobile Convergence (MMC), took the ”Wireless Mobility Product” award for this “very interesting, visionary solution”.
• The ”IP Telephony Product” award went to Avaya Quick Edition for its “easy to install and simple to use product that embeds IP-PBX functionality into IP phones, eliminating the need for a separate server through P2P technology”.
• Winner of the ”Enterprise Product” award was Packeteer with Mobilti 6.0, commended for its “good synchronization for laptops” and “iShared Mobility, the finishing touch of an impressive total solution”.
• Alcatel-Lucent took the ”Carrier Product” award with their 7750 Service Router, considered a “good solid product with lots of options… good scalability and provisioning… that offers frame relay and ATM support and good QoS”.
• The “Metro Product” of the year was awarded to Strix for their “innovative, low cost mesh network, offering carrier class resiliency”.

Find more on NetEvents and the 2007 awards program at www.netevents.org/awards.php.