TechTarget SearchNetworking.com Announces 2007 'Product Leadership Award' Winners

Needham, Mass. (PRWEB) February 26, 2007

The editors of TechTarget's® SearchNetworking.com™ today announced their 2007 "Product Leadership Award" recipients. The Awards span 12 networking product categories -- branch routers; modular switches; stackable switches; endpoint security; network firewalls; remote access; network and IT management platforms; network performance management; IP PBXs; hybrid PBXs; wireless LAN switches; and WAN optimization/acceleration -- and recognize 35 products that enterprise IT professionals should consider adding to their "A" lists of products to evaluate.

Winning products were selected by 1,400 networking professionals based on their assessment of products currently deployed within their own enterprises. Respondents were asked to evaluate the networking products according to defined product-specific criteria each of which was assigned a weighed value based on importance, with cumulative scores calculated for each product. SearchNetworking.com editors used these scores to determine Gold, Silver and Bronze award winners for the industry's best networking products.

Category: Branch Routers

Gold: Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) -- Cisco 2600/2800 series

Silver: 3Com Corp (NASDAQ: COMS) -- 3Com Router 3000 series

Category: Modular Switches

Gold: HP (NYSE, NASDAQ: HPQ) -- HP ProCurve 5000 series

Silver: Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) -- Cisco Catalyst 6000 series

Bronze: 3Com Corp (NASDAQ: COMS) -- 3Com Switch 8800/7700 family

Category: Stackable Switches

Gold: Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) -- Cisco Catalyst 3000 series

Silver: D-Link -- D-Link DES Series

Bronze: HP (NYSE, NASDAQ: HPQ) -- HP ProCurve 2000 series

Category: Endpoint Security

Gold: Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) -- Cisco Network Admission Control

Silver: Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) -- Check Point Integrity

Bronze: McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) -- McAfee Policy Enforcer

Category: Network Firewalls

Gold: Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) -- Juniper Networks SSG/ISG

Silver: Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) -- Symantec Enterprise Firewall

Bronze: SonicWALL Inc. (NASDAQ: SNWL) -- SonicWALL PRO

Category: Remote Access

Gold: Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) -- Juniper Secure Access

Silver: Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) -- Cisco VPN Concentrator Series

Bronze: Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) -- Citrix Access Gateway

Category: Network and IT Management Platforms

Gold: Open NMS

Silver: HP (NYSE, NASDAQ: HPQ) -- HP OpenView

Bronze: IBM (NYSE: IBM) -- IBM Tivoli

Category: Network Performance Management

Gold: SolarWinds -- SolarWinds Orion

Silver: Fluke Networks -- Fluke Networks OptiView family

Bronze: Network General™ Corporation -- Network General Sniffer Enterprise/Enterprise Intelligence family

Category: IP PBXs

Gold: Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) -- Cisco CallManager/CallManagerExpress

Silver: Nortel (NYSE/TSX: NT) -- Nortel Communications Server 1000/2100

Bronze: Avaya Inc. (NYSE:AV) -- Avaya One-X Quick Edition

Category: Hybrid PBXs

Gold: Nortel (NYSE/TSX: NT) -- Nortel Business Communications Manager (BCM)

Silver: NEC Corporation (NASDAQ: NIPNY) -- NEC NEAX

Bronze: Avaya Inc. (NYSE:AV) -- Avaya Tenovis Integral 55 IP

Category: Wireless LAN Switches

Gold: Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) -- Cisco WiSM or WLSM

Silver: 3Com Corp (NASDAQ: COMS) -- 3Com WX1200

Bronze: D-Link -- D-Link DWS family

Category: WAN Optimization/Acceleration

Gold: Packeteer®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PKTR) -- Packeteer PacketShaper

Silver: Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) -- Cisco Wide-Area Application Services

Bronze: Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) -- Juniper WX and WXC

About SearchNetworking.com

SearchNetworking.com is one of the largest and most active online communities dedicated to the enterprise network. Over 300,000 IT professionals rely on SearchNetworking.com for industry news, technical tips and valuable best practices on routing, switching, network security, network/systems management, convergence/VoIP and wireless LANs, so they can keep their networks up to date and cope with constant change. More information is available at http://www.SearchNetworking.com.

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