REDWOOD CITY, California Oct. 11, 2011 – SEVEN® Networks, a provider of innovative mobile solutions that deliver a Real Life, Real Time experience, announced it has received the 2011 RCR Wireless Innovation Award for Most Innovative Mobile Traffic Management Solution for its SEVEN Open Channel™. Winners were announced last week at the 2011 Wireless Infrastructure Show in Dallas.
SEVEN Open Channel is a smartphone traffic optimization platform that provides immediate capacity and financial relief to carriers faced with the exponential growth of mobile data usage by reducing mobile app data traffic and signaling. In recent tests, the solution was shown to dramatically reduce levels of background smartphone data traffic by 66 percent for certain apps, such as Yahoo Email, and 44 percent across all apps supported by the software.
Winners were selected by the RCR Wireless News editorial staff and were picked based upon the impact made on the mobile industry and the people it serves. The full list of winners can be found here: http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20111006/devices/rcr-wireless-news-mobile-innovation-awards-announced-at-2011-wireless-infrastructure-show/
“We are incredibly pleased to be honored by RCR Wireless alongside such an amazing list of wireless innovators,” said Ross Bott, president and CEO of SEVEN. “2011 has certainly been a whirlwind year for SEVEN Open Channel and we’re just getting started in terms of where the product can go.”
Earlier this year, SEVEN Open Channel received the Frost & Sullivan 2011 North America New Product Innovation Award in Mobile Traffic Optimization as well as the GSMA Global Mobile Award for Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough.
SEVEN® Networks develops innovative mobile software solutions that help carriers and device manufacturers reduce the amount of traffic generated by mobile apps on wireless networks. The company’s push-based platform and its mobile apps deliver data from the cloud to smartphones in a way that is network and battery efficient and ensures a Real Life, Real Time™ experience for any application on any mobile device. SEVEN Open Channel™, the latest award-winning addition to the SEVEN product portfolio, is a breakthrough mobile traffic optimization solution that cuts mobile app bandwidth consumption by 70 percent and signaling usage by 40 percent. It provides immediate capacity and financial relief to carriers faced with the exponential growth of mobile data usage. SEVEN solutions are deployed in 14 languages across five continents. The company is based in Redwood City, California, with local offices around the globe. More information is available online at http://www.seven.com, www.twitter.com/SEVEN_Networks or www.facebook.com/SEVENNetworks.