ARX™ Product Honored with Prestigious Award
Lowell, MA - December 20, 2004 - Acopia Networks, Inc., the pioneer of Adaptive Resource Networking products, today announced that the company has won Light Reading's Leading Lights Award for Best New Product from a Private Company. Acopia's ARX switches were selected 1st from a pool of over 150 products in the most popular category in the awards program. The Best New Product Award recognizes Acopia's Adaptive Resource Switching Products for outstanding engineering innovation, technical excellence and the ability to save customers money.
"We are deeply honored to win such a prestigious award. This kind of recognition further validates the innovation we're driving, the uniqueness of our solution, and the dramatic impact its having on our customers ", said Christopher P. Lynch, President and CEO of Acopia Networks.
"The ARX1000 and ARX6000 stood out for adding intelligence, prioritization, and hitless migration to storage virtualization. Acopia also breaks the single-data-center mentality common in storage by allowing control of an entire network of attached storage devices" said Scott Raynovich, US Editor of Light Reading in summarizing the findings of the Awards Panel.
The awards were judged over a two month period by a committee made up of editors, industry experts, and analysts from Light Readings network of websites. The award was presented during the Light Reading's Leading Lights Award's Dinner at the Plaza Hotel in New York, New York on Wednesday December 15th, 2004. For more information see: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=64526
Founded in 2000, Light Reading Inc. is the ultimate source for technology and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation. It reaches an extensive audience of executives and technologists within the telecommunications and enterprise networking communities, as well as the financial/industry analysts and investors who track these sectors. In 2004, Light Reading established the Leading Lights, an important new annual industry awards program in which top public and private companies and their executives are recognized for their outstanding achievements in the telecommunications industry.
Acopia Networks, headquartered in Lowell, MA, is the innovator of Adaptive Resource Networking platforms that provide a new foundation for intelligently managing the global distribution of data. Acopia's switches hide the "back end" complexity from users and increase the utilization of today's resources. The company was founded in 2002 by industry visionary and serial entrepreneur Cheng Wu and a team of talented engineers from companies such as Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), EMC (NYSE: EMC), Network Appliance (NASDAQ: NTAP) and others throughout the high technology industry. Information about Acopia's products and services can be found at http://www.acopia.com.
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Contact:
Joe Wisniewski
Acopia Networks, Inc.
978-513-2979
jwisniewski@acopia.com