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Public and private entities are searching for innovative solutions in networking to address the huge challenges they will be facing as more individuals, organizations and even machines continue to come online in greater numbers. The recognition by TechTarget and CRN of Teridion, a company that provides cloud-based networking, highlights how the innovations it has made in the segment is going to be addressing the network challenges we will all be facing.

TechTarget gave Teridion its Network Innovation award, and CRN named the company one of "The 10 Coolest Cloud Application Startups of 2016." The reason both of these organizations are highlighting Teridion is because the company has managed to increase Internet connectivity by using its cloud-based software and delivering performance levels 5 to 20 times higher than current Internet speeds.

The company is able to do this by monitoring all of the networks in the world in real time and basically identifying slow and fast lanes. The end result has been a dramatic increase in speed and improvement in user experience.

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) or Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN), which require deployment of edge caches, provisioning of connections in advance across the WAN, local data centers and other kinds of hardware close to the user, delay deployments. Teridion has Software as a service (SaaS (News - Alert)) model that uses networking from public cloud to deliver dynamic content and applications much faster. It has simplified the process by eliminating complex configurations and stranded assets and operating in the IP layer which allows it to handle a wide range of applications, including file sharing, conferencing, gaming, finance and more.

Teridion also scales on-demand with virtual routers that are deployed depending on the traffic with greater visibility and control. Using smart analytics and leveraging the cloud, it is able to determine the paths that are less congested and sends your traffic towards that direction.

The improvement in speed and performance doesn't compromise compliance or security. According to the company, it all but eliminates man-in-the middle attacks while preventing hijackings. By not caching customer data and not having to hand over SSL certificate information, the service allows organizations to choose the regions through which their data will travel without the risk of hijacking or security breaches.

Without end-to-end visibility and the ability to direct traffic towards the fastest lanes will result in sluggish performance and poor customer experience. Teridion has managed to overcome these challenges with real-time or close to real-time assessment of traffic conditions to determine the best routes to achieve the fastest Internet speed.