05/12/2010 - Ipanema Highly Commended Best Specialist Vendor of the Year by the World Vendor Awards

Ipanema announced today it has been Highly Commended in the "Best Specialist Vendor" category at the inaugural World Vendor Awards 2010, held at the prestigious Globe theatre in London.

Ipanema Technologies, leveraging years of experience partnering with leading global and domestic telecoms operators worldwide, was highly commended for its leadership in providing both innovative technology and a finely-tuned engagement model, enabling operators around the world to quickly deploy differentiated and high-value Application-Centric VPN services.

The World Vendor Awards are organized by Total Telecom, the leading providers of news and analysis for the global telecom industry, and are the only independent awards that are focused on telecom vendors.

The judges were impressed by Ipanema’s technological and business model innovations in providing quickly built, launch and run high-value managed services that create significant revenues and profits for telcos, while addressing fundamental enterprises IT challenges such as application performance, business continuity and cost savings. The judging panel commented that Ipanema has delivered ―a great technological story with clear benefits for telcos and end clients and strong customer testimonials.

The World Vendor Awards is an important milestone for Ipanema, recognizing our vision of a new generation of network infrastructure and services that are tightly coupled to enterprises IT and business needs. It is an honor to be singled out for our approach, which emphasizes WAN governance through autonomic networking technology, said Jean-Yves Leclerc, CEO and founder of Ipanema Technologies.

About Ipanema Technologies www.ipanematech.com

Ipanema develops next-generation solutions for enabling large enterprises to have full control over their global network. Ipanema’s unique patented technology guarantees business application performance and continuity in a cloud computing world no matter where or when. With solutions used extensively by many of the world’s largest telecom providers and enterprises across business and public sectors, Ipanema controls and optimizes close to 100,000 sites among 1,000 customers.