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Cotendo Receives Prestigious Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award
SUNNYVALE, CA, Feb 15, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Frost & Sullivan has selected Cotendo, Inc., the fast-growing
innovator of cloud-based acceleration technologies, as the recipient
of its highly prized New Product Innovation Award for 2011.
Specifically, the award recognizes Cotendo's Mobile Acceleration
Suite (MAS), a unique platform that speeds and optimizes the delivery
of content to mobile devices by as much as 50%.
Frost & Sullivan cited both its comprehensive evaluation process and
the wide difference in scores between Cotendo's MAS and the products
of Cotendo's competitors. These products were all judged on five
criteria: innovative elements, ability to leverage leading-edge
technologies, value-added features and benefits, ability to increase
customer ROI, and customer acquisition/penetration potential. When
evaluations were tallied, the Cotendo MAS had won handily, receiving
a rating of 9.0 out of 10 as opposed to ratings of 6.4 and 5.4 for
its closest industry rivals.
Frost & Sullivan - Decision Support Matrix for
New Product
Innovation Award
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Measurement
of 1-10
(1 = lowest;
10 = highest) Award Criteria
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Innovative Leverage Value Customer
Element of Leading Edge Added Increased Acquisition/
the Technologies Features/B Customer Penetration Weighted
Product in Product enefits ROI Potential Rating
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Relative
Weight
(%) 20% 20% 20% 20% 20% 100%
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Cotendo 10 9 9 9 8 9.0
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Competitor
1 6 6 7 7 6 6.4
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Competitor
2 5 5 6 6 5 5.4
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"The massive consumer adoption of smart mobile devices has led to an
enormous increase of mobile data traffic," noted Zeff Ibrahim,
Research Analyst of the Technical Insight division of Frost &
Sullivan. "This has the potential to cripple current mobile network
systems. Inconsistent mobile traffic and ever-changing network
conditions also create latency issues, further frustrating users.
From the evidence we've gathered, however, Cotendo's Mobile
Acceleration Suite administers mobile content in a much more
intelligent manner. Generally, the solution empowers mobile carriers,
networks, and content providers to be more content and device aware.
By leveraging another new Cotendo innovation, the Cloudlet(TM)
platform, the MAS solution has a greater consumer reach and shifts
data remodeling to the edge of the networks. When we considered these
unique attributes, we felt that Cotendo clearly deserved our New
Product Innovation Award."
The key challenges for mobile systems arise from two key differences
between mobile and other data networks and wired applications. First,
mobile interactions and applications are highly personalized and
customized, and must be adjusted to provide an optimal user
experience based on device type, user profile, location, and network.
Second, connection latency and round-trip time (RTT) are typically
high and highly unpredictable on mobile networks, and they vary on
network load, location, packet loss, and other factors. This network
characteristic also has a dramatic negative impact on TCP and
specifically on HTTP performance over mobile networks.
Cotendo's MAS tackles these pain points head on, dramatically
speeding up the delivery of mobile websites and applications and
ensuring reliable and high-performance acceleration for content to
any device on any network condition in any location in the world.
This, in turn, gives content providers and enterprises a new way to
ensure that their content arrives more quickly and reliably to a
user's smart phone or tablet.
"We're thrilled to receive this award from an organization as
distinguished as Frost & Sullivan," added Cotendo CEO Ronni Zehavi.
"We've been the first company to take on the mobile acceleration
challenge for content providers, but it's important to stress that
mobile acceleration is just beginning. We at Cotendo are working hard
to enhance and broaden our mobile solutions to solve not just current
problems but also to strengthen the mobile connection for years to
come. We want to help everyone with a stake in mobile, from content
providers to carriers and handset manufacturers, and we're driven to
get our innovations into the hands of the companies who need it
quickly. By no means do we consider our work in mobile done."
While a major innovative breakthrough, MAS is only one of many recent
and significant industry firsts for Cotendo. Others include:
-- Cloudlet Platform (November 2010), the world's first fully
customizable, high-performance and globally distributed cloud
application environment. It revolutionized the CDN space by enabling
mobile and wired content providers to extend their business logic to
the edge of the network, moving content delivery decision making
closer than ever to the end user, while keeping it streamlined with
the delivery path of their content, and achieving seamless global
scalability.
-- SPDY support (April 2011), the first CDN and service provider to offer
SPDY support, utilizing the SPDY protocol to speed up browsers and
devices connections. Using Cotendo's SPDY service, customers can speed
up their applications utilizing SPDY without any change, and without
the need to support SPDY on the customer's server end.
-- CloudConnector (October 2011), the first solution to combine CDN and
ADC and seamlessly extend the traditional networking footprint beyond
the walls of the enterprise datacenter to points of presence all over
the world, creating a true end-to-end "service delivery fabric."
The Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award for 2011 is the
eighth major industry recognition Cotendo has received in recent
months for its innovative technologies. The company -- which has
acquired nearly 500 customers worldwide since launching its first
product just three years ago -- has also been named:
-- MIT Top 50 Most Innovative Companies worldwide by the MIT Technology
Review
-- Top 35 Best in Cloud by Computerwoche
-- Red Herring Top 100 private tech firms in North America driving the
future of technology by Red Herring Magazine
-- 120 Innovators, Movers and Shakers by Cloud Computing Journal
-- 250 Global Companies gaining significant market traction and pursuing
game-changing technology innovations that disrupt existing markets by
AlwaysOn
-- Top 50 Best Tech Start-Ups poised for growth by Business Week
-- Top 100 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Silicon Valley by Lead
411
For more information on these recognitions, see Cotendo Awards at
http://www.cotendo.com/testimonials/#awards
About Frost & Sullivan
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accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth,
innovation, and leadership. The company's Growth Partnership Service
provides the CEO and the CEO's Growth Team with disciplined research
and best-practice models to drive the generation, evaluation, and
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About Cotendo
A fast growing innovator of cloud-based acceleration technologies,
Cotendo offers an integrated suite of Web and Mobile Acceleration
Services from its global distributed points of presence (POPs).
Cotendo's single platform software was built from the ground up and
includes acceleration services for dynamic Web applications, static
and dynamic Web content, SSL, Advanced DNS, Adaptive Image
Compression, performance monitoring and automatic failover as well as
real-time reports and analytics. Cotendo also offers a distributed
cloud application environment called Cloudlet(TM) that allows
decision-making (logic, data) at the edge, closest to the end users.
Cotendo's customer base includes Fortune 500 enterprises, Tier 1
telecommunications providers, and the world's largest social
networks, eCommerce sites, and advertising networks. For more
information about Cotendo and its Web and Mobile Acceleration
Services Suite, visit www.cotendo.com.
Press Contact:
Liz Youngs
Commstrat
liz@commstrat.com
843-412-6327
SOURCE: Cotendo
mailto:liz@commstrat.com
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