Masergy's Software Defined Platform Takes Gold Medal for Stevie Award's 2016 American Business Awards

DALLAS, TX--(Marketwired - May 3, 2016) -   Masergy Communications Inc. today announced that its Software Defined Platform has been named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award for the Telecommunications-Service category, in the 14th Annual American Business Awards. The Company's SDN solution continues to receive top praise from industry experts and customers for reducing network programming complexity through the automation and virtualization of its global network fabric. The American Business Awards are the nation's premier business awards program. The award judges singled out Masergy's Software Defined Platform for its ability to provide customers with unprecedented visibility and control into network performance and functions. "Masergy's Software Defined Platform enables our customers to customize their network solutions based on their individual requirements as application performance dictates," said Tim Naramore, CTO, Masergy. "We are proud that our innovations continue to change the face of telecommunications with new levels of configuration simplicity and bandwidth flexibility." More than 3,400 nominations were submitted for consideration by more than 250 professionals participating in the judging process. "The judges were extremely impressed with the quality of entries we received," said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards. "The competition was intense and every organization that has won should be proud." Masergy owns and operates the largest independent Software Defined Platform in the world, delivering hybrid networking, managed security and cloud communications services to enterprises around the globe. The platform goes beyond simple connectivity to deliver embedded real-time analytics and control, advanced security analytics, and programmable network functions that enable business-driven changes to be implemented as needed. The Gold Stevie Award is Masergy's most recent for its Software Defined solution. Others include:

• 2016 Big Innovation Award for its Software Defined Platform
• 2015 Stratus Award for NFV Innovation
• 2015 TMC Labs Innovation Award for its Cloud (f)n Router

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