ActivNetworks has received Red Herring’s prestigious Top 100 Global Award

Paris, 20th December 2011

ActivNetworks, expert in http/https optimization, was named by Red Herring, on December 7th 2011, as one of world’s top 100 private companies.

This prize recognizes outstanding technological companies and entrepreneurs worldwide.

ActivNetworks has developed BoostEdge, a network appliance which enables to accelerate web response (up to 75%) and to reduce data flow (x3 up to x6).

On this occasion, ActivNetworks presented its latest solution: BoostEdge Video, a video optimisation platform particularly meant for Telecom Carriers. This solution allows them to deal with increasing number of video streams while preserving the user’s experience (re-buffering) on their smartphones. Bandwidth savings are outstanding: from 30% to 90%.

ActivNetworks was evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy, and market penetration. This assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record of start-ups relative to their sector peers. 

ActivNetworks is proud to be recognized as one of the most innovative and promising companies worldwide. This year the company has also been designated by The Gartner as a visionary player in the last Magic Quadrant for the ADC Market Space.

About BoostEdge  (www.activnetworks.com)

BoostEdge Enterprise Edition reduces data traffic to give businesses fast and secure access to their Cloud-based applications whatever device or networks access.

BoostEdge Telecom Edition allows telecom operators to limit infrastructure costs and raise the performance of their existing 2G/3G/4G and satellite DSL networks by dividing traffic by 3 (up to 6).

BoostEdge is the result of over 50 man-years of industry leading research and expertise in application and network acceleration technologies. Thanks to the exclusive patent “Plug’ n Activ”, BoostEdge is installed without requiring modification of the servers, applications, DNS or networks.  It is deployed by about 100 enterprises and operators worldwide such as Alstom, Bouygues Telecom, KDDI, Henkel, Nielsen, NTT DoCoMo, Pernod Ricard, Lafarge, Schneider Electric or Sodexo.