Wednesday, November 11, 2026 • 02:09 AM

Networking Innovators - 2022

In today’s competitive market, an organization’s responsiveness to consumer or supplier demand is frequently a deciding element in its success. The network is regarded as one of the most crucial resources in an organization, both in the commercial and governmental sectors. Networks are built to give a way to achieve a goal or meet demand. These aims and demands are frequently vital, hence the network itself is critical. Consider the metaphor of a transportation network (roads, highways, rails, and so on). If any of these channels were to go down unexpectedly, our capacity to deliver food, clothing, and goods would be severely hampered.

A computer network, similarly, is constructed to give a way of sending data, often critical data, from one computer to another. For big firms, the precision and speed of everyday business transactions are critical to their success. Unscheduled interruptions resulting in the failure to perform these everyday business transactions are expensive and even disastrous.

The extensive usage of networks enhances the reach of organizations. Numerous firms have profited greatly from distant connections with consumers, suppliers, and business partners. It has had a proportionally favorable influence on many countries’ total productivity. However, such productivity improvements are only as good as the network.

However, with hundreds of different options in the marketplace, it can be overwhelming to figure out which system is the best. To make this process more streamlined, our team of researchers, analysts, and Editorial team has shortlisted a set of companies that stand out from the crowd. The companies included in the list offer some of the most innovative as well as exclusive solutions that could create an impact in the Networking sector.

6WIND
6WIND
Management:

Julien Dahan

Designation:

CEO

HeadQuaters:

Santa Clara, CA

Website:

6wind.com

6WIND software is deployed globally by CSPs, MNOs, Systems Integrators, Cloud Providers, and Enterprises, allowing customers to replace expensive hardware with flexible software solutions for routing and end-to-end security use cases.


AddOn Networks
AddOn Networks
Management:

AddOn Networks

Designation:

CEO

HeadQuaters:

Tustin, CA

Website:

addonnetworks.com

AddOn Networks is a leader in optical connectivity solutions serving a wide range of customers, from global organizations in financials, web 2.0/cloud, to SMB, healthcare, and government institutions. AddOn products are available worldwide through our distribution and reseller partners.


Allied Telesis
Allied Telesis
Management:

Takayoshi Oshima

Designation:

Chairman & CEO

HeadQuaters:

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Website:

alliedtelesis.com

Allied Telesis has been delivering reliable, intelligent connectivity for everything from enterprise organizations to complex, critical infrastructure projects around the globe. We continually innovate the way services and applications are offered and managed, resulting in increased value and lower operating costs.


Apposite Technologies
Apposite Technologies
Management:

Joseph Zeto

Designation:

CEO

HeadQuaters:

Los Angeles, CA

Website:

apposite-tech.com

Apposite Technologies has been the leading supplier of network emulation and network performance testing tools for leading enterprises, application developers, military organizations, and telecom carriers worldwide. Our mission is to provide modern, easy-to-use network, application, and security performance testing solutions that foster innovation and bring technology closer to perfection.


Arista Networks
Arista Networks
Management:

Jayshree V. Ullal

Designation:

President & CEO

HeadQuaters:

Santa Clara, CA

Website:

arista.com

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics and security through an advanced network operating stack.


Arrcus
Arrcus
Management:

Shekar Ayyar

Designation:

Chairman & CEO

HeadQuaters:

San Jose, CA

Website:

arrcus.com

Arrcus was founded to enrich human experiences by interconnecting people, machines, and data. Their mission is to provide software-powered network transformation for the interconnected world.


DriveNets
Management:

Ido Susan

Designation:

Co-Founder & CEO

HeadQuaters:

Red Bank, NJ

Website:

drivenets.com

DriveNets is a fast-growing software company that builds networks like clouds. It offers communications service providers and cloud providers a radical new way to build networks, detaching network growth from network cost and increasing network profitability. DriveNets Network Cloud uniquely supports the complete virtualization of network and compute resources, enabling communication service provi...


Ennetix
Management:

Dr. Bis Mukherjee

Designation:

Founder & President

HeadQuaters:

Davis, CA

Website:

ennetix.com

Ennetix delivers industry-leading AIOps solutions to help enterprises to achieve the best possible user experience of mission-critical applications.


Extreme Networks
Management:

Ed Meyercord

Designation:

President & CEO

HeadQuaters:

North Sydney, Australia

Website:

extremenetworks.com

Extreme customers know the power of networking and thrive on finding innovative new ways to deliver better outcomes. From high-profile sports leagues and global enterprises to local government and school districts, our customers harness the power of the cloud to deliver better experiences.


Fat Pipe Networks
Fat Pipe Networks
Management:

Ragula Bhaskar

Designation:

President & CEO

HeadQuaters:

Salt Lake City, UT

Website:

fatpipeinc.com

FatPipe®, the inventor and multiple patents holder of software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN), reliability, security, and WAN Optimization products, specializes in providing solutions that transcend Wide-Area Network (WAN) failures to maintain business continuity. Over the last 12 years, FatPipe has the largest installed base of customers in software-defined network WANs, including numerous...


GTT
GTT
Management:

Ernie Ortega

Designation:

CEO

HeadQuaters:

London, UK

Website:

gtt.net

We are a global network provider that serves thousands of multinational and national enterprise, government and carrier customers with a portfolio of advanced connectivity and security services. Our leading SD-WAN solutions enable digital business and help optimise the performance of SaaS and cloud-based applications for business users across the world.


Infosim
Infosim
Management:

Dr. Stefan Kohler

Designation:

CEO

HeadQuaters:

Austin, TX

Website:

infosim.net

Infosim is an international IT company with headquarters in Würzburg, Germany. Our continuous growth over the past years has successfully positioned us as a global market-leading software manufacturer for network management and as a service provider for ERP solutions.


Infovista
Infovista
Management:

Jose Duarte

Designation:

CEO

HeadQuaters:

Ashburn, VA

Website:

infovista.com

InfoVista provides a leading product portfolio for 5G and Next Gen (fixed, wireless and converged) networks management under Network Lifecycle Automation platform with unique cross-domain ue-cases that empowers service providers and enterprise organizations to holistically and cost-effectively monitor and ensure availability and quality of serviceon the infrastructure, services and applications th...


Juniper Networks
Management:

Rami Rahim

Designation:

CEO

HeadQuaters:

Sunnyvale, CA

Website:

juniper.net

Juniper Networks is leading the revolution in networking, making it one of the most exciting technology companies in Silicon Valley today. Since being founded by Pradeep Sindhu, Dennis Ferguson, and Bjorn Liencres nearly 20 years ago, Juniper’s sole mission has been to create innovative products and solutions that meet the growing demands of the connected world.


Rajant Corporation
Rajant Corporation
Management:

Robert J. Schena

Designation:

Co-Founder & CEO

HeadQuaters:

Malvern, PA

Website:

rajant.com

Rajant develops wireless broadband systems for homeland security, public safety, security, and enterprise networking applications. he Rajant team envisioned a new, more robust mesh technology that would allow these networks to be fully mobile and mobility-enabled, and operate reliably in even the most demanding environments.


Riverbed Technology
Riverbed Technology
Management:

Dan Smoot

Designation:

President & CEO

HeadQuaters:

San Francisco, CA

Website:

riverbed.com

Riverbed Technology riverbed develops solutions to the fundamental problems associated with information technology performance across wide area networks. private data centres, private clouds and cloud computing. The company’s products include steelhead products and cascade product line. The company’s solution, the riverbed optimization system, consists of hardware and software products that addres...


Userful
Userful
Management:

John Marshall

Designation:

President & CEO

HeadQuaters:

San Francisco, CA

Website:

userful.com

Userful is the recognized leader in Enterprise AV-over-IP, one of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry. Some of the largest companies in the world rely on us to support their AV & IoT content and applications over their networks.


Verana Networks
Verana Networks
Management:

Vedat Eyuboglu

Designation:

CEO

HeadQuaters:

Chelmsford, MA

Website:

verananetworks.com

Verana Networks is building an innovative 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) solution for service providers that have licensed millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. We are focused on enabling 5G in mmWave spectrum because that is where the largest amount of new spectrum is. For 5G to succeed, it must deliver a 10X-50X increase in speed and capacity. Blazing fast speed and a massive increase in capacity en...


Versa Networks
Versa Networks
Management:

Kelly Ahuja

Designation:

CEO

HeadQuaters:

Santa Clara, CA

Website:

versa-networks.com

Versa is unique among SASE vendors, providing an end-to-end solution that both simplifies and secures the modern network. Versa SASE, based on VOS™, delivers a broad set of capabilities via the cloud and on-premises for building agile and secure enterprise networks, as well as highly efficient managed service offerings.


VIAVI Solutions
VIAVI Solutions
Management:

Oleg Khaykin

Designation:

President & CEO

HeadQuaters:

Chandler, AZ

Website:

viavisolutions.com

VIAVI sells an incredibly broad portfolio to network, communications, and electronics technology leaders across the globe. We don’t just offer individual products, we work with our customers to solve critical issues affecting end users, such as quality of service. Through our use cases, we are able to help customers identify opportunities to use data and analytics to improve their business. It’s w...


Enterprise Viewpoint

Creating quality content that help to improve your business is at the heart of what EV is. We aim provide a comprehensive platform that support the growth of young and ambitious entrepreneurs through unique insights and valuable networks