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ADVA Optical Networking Wins Light Reading’s Company of the Year (Public) Award
May 2016 by Marc Jacob
ADVA Optical Networking announced today that it has won Light Reading’s Leading Lights Company of the Year (Public) award. The company was chosen from a shortlist of major industry players, including AT&T, Cisco and Infinera. The award firmly underlines ADVA Optical Networking’s incredible performance in 2015. Not only did the company drive phenomenal growth in revenue and profitability, but it also delivered a number of key technologies across multiple market segments. These included the ADVA FSP 3000 CloudConnect(TM) platform in the data center interconnect (DCI) space, the ADVA ConnectGuard(TM) for network security and its 100G metro solution. ADVA Optical Networking’s network functions virtualization (NFV) strategy, including its Overture acquisition, also played a significant role in its award victory.
Light Reading is widely recognized as one of the industry’s most authoritative and insightful editorial organizations. For over 16 years, it has been a part of the networking industry, investigating key stories and highlighting technology trends. Now in its 11th year, Light Reading’s annual Leading Lights Awards recognizes major company achievement and technology innovation. ADVA Optical Networking’s success as Company of the Year (Public) is a result of a strong financial performance in 2015. During this period, revenues rose by 30 percent and profits increased by 217 percent. The company also made a number of strategic acquisitions, including Overture. This purchase has helped to propel ADVA Optical Networking’s NFV strategy forward. Now seen as an NFV powerhouse, ADVA Optical Networking is one of the few companies in the industry that can claim its NFV technology has been deployed.
