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Compass-EOS Wins Red Herring Global Top 100 AwardMOUNTAIN VIEW & MILPITAS, CALIF. --(Business Wire)-- Compass (News - Alert)-EOS, the company that pioneered icPhotonics™, has won the prestigious RED Herring Global Top 100 Award. Compass-EOS was selected as a winner from among hundreds of top private companies in Europe, North America, and Asia. The award comes on the heels of Compass-EOS' recent announcement of a new networking element - The SDN Forwarding Plane offers an open programmable platform which enables service providers to replace expensive and complex routers their networks. When combined with breakthrough throughput and radically lower power consumption through icPhotonics™ technology, the SDN Forwarding Plane is positioned to drive the adoption of software-defined networking (SDN). "When you look at the rise of SDN networks, you realize that for the first ime in the history of telecommunications we can drive services at software cycle times - which means we can offer services at the speed of life," said Matt Bross (News - Alert), Compass-EOS Chairman and CEO. "We are proud to be recognized as a game-changer in the industry, driving innovation that will help drive SDN adoption to the next level in service provider networks." This is the second Red Herring (News - Alert) honor awarded to Compass-EOS. Last May, Compass-EOS won the Red Herring Top 100 America Award over hundreds of cutting-edge companies and technologies as one of the companies positioned to grow at an explosive rate. About Red Herring Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. About Compass-EOS Compass EOS (News - Alert) is a next generation networking company. Its photonic backplane technology, icPhotonics™ powers ultra-bandwidth dense networking devices that bring networking into the age of modularity and virtualization. The Compass-EOS icPhotonics™ technology is the world's first commercial silicon for inter-chip optical interconnect. Its family of routers and SDN Forwarding Planes is a new breed of scale-out networking devices, enabling SDN-based, simplified architectures in service provider networks. Since 2006 Compass-EOS has attracted top-tier investors ranging from leading venture capital funds to service providers and networking suppliers. Note: Compass-EOS, r10004 and icPhotonics are trademarks of Compass-EOS.
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