Net Optics Wins Red Herring Global 100 Award

SANTA CLARA, CA and LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Dec 8, 2011) - Net Optics, Inc., the industry's leading provider of intelligent access and monitoring architecture, today announces that it has been named a 2011 Red Herring Global Top 100 winner. Net Optics was selected from over 1,000 nominees representing the most innovative technology companies across more than 40 nations. This honor comes in addition to the company's selection as a Red Herring North America Top 100 winner last June.

The finalists, representing past Red Herring Asia, Europe and North America award winners, are judged on a range of qualitative and quantitative metrics, including but not limited to, technology innovation, financial performance, growth criterion, management's execution standards, and potential globalization of the strategy and market share improvement. Winners were announced the evening of December 7, 2011 at the Red Herring Global forum in Los Angeles, where finalists were invited to present their winning strategies at a special awards ceremony.

"At Net Optics, we're serving customers in 65 different countries," said Net Optics president and CEO Bob Shaw. "It's one of the fastest growing portions of our business. Being selected to the Red Herring Global 100 from such an expansive pool of worthy organizations is a truly gratifying recognition of our growing presence not only as a leader in Silicon Valley, but overseas as well. To be honored by Red Herring twice in the same year is a tremendous achievement for Net Optics."

Net Optics solutions are deployed by 85-percent of the Fortune 100 and 50-percent of the Fortune 500. Since the company's inception in 1996, Net Optics has posted 62 quarters of consecutive growth without VC funds and its products are made in the USA. This year, Net Optics surpassed the quarter billion dollar revenue milestone, and has ongoing plans to add new hires to its rapidly expanding employee base.

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About Net Optics, Inc.
Net Optics is the leading provider of Intelligent Access and Monitoring Architecture solutions that deliver real-time IT visibility, monitoring and control. As a result, businesses achieve peak performance in network analytics and security. More than 7,000 enterprises, service providers and government organizations -- including 85 percent of the Fortune 100 -- trust Net Optics' comprehensive smart access hardware and software solutions to plan, scale and future-proof their networks through an easy-to-use interface. Net Optics maintains a global presence through leading OEM partner and reseller networks.