Ottawa, Canada, June 15, 2007 – Solace Systems, the leading supplier of content-aware networking equipment for service providers and enterprises, announced today that its VRS/32 content-aware router has won the Special Prize – Best of Show award for the appliance product category at Interop Tokyo. Demonstrated at the show by distribution partner NetOne Systems, the VRS/32 offers enterprises and service providers a distributed, network-based hardware platform for delivering application infrastructure, greatly improving performance while reducing complexity.

The Best of Show Awards recognizes the product, solution or service that best reflects this year’s theme of The Internet: Solutions to Accelerate Your Business. Nominations were also judged by a panel of IT experts and voted on by show attendees. Other nominees included Fujitsu, SonicWALL, Infoblox and NEC.  

Interop Tokyo showcases products and services essential to service provider and enterprise network needs. For more information on the award, please visit http://interop.jp