Silver Spring Networks Named a Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Machine-to-Machine Services, Worldwide

The Internet of Important ThingsTM IPv6 Pioneer Makes Its Debut in Gartner Magic Quadrant For Its Vision and Ability to Execute

San Jose, CA – October 24, 2016 – Silver Spring Networks, Inc. (NYSE: SSNI) today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a Visionary in the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Services, Worldwide.[1] This is the first time Silver Spring has been recognized in a Gartner Magic Quadrant.

The Gartner ‘Managed M2M Services, Worldwide’ Magic Quadrant evaluates the global market for M2M services, and focuses on providers that bundle connectivity and related value-added services, such as consulting, M2M device engineering, M2M application development and integration, related middleware aggregation, software hosting and related systems management.

“We’re thrilled to receive recognition from the analyst community for our industry leading, standards-based technology and believe it affirms Silver Spring’s mission to enable customers to extract the full value of the data exchanged over our highly secure and reliable network for the Internet of Important Things,” said Mike Bell, President and CEO, Silver Spring Networks. “With continued deployments of our flagship private cloud offerings and Starfish™, our public cloud IoT network and data platform, in major markets across the globe, we believe that we are changing the IoT landscape by connecting applications that matter, while further enhancing our managed M2M services industry position.”

With more than 24.3 million enabled devices currently delivered on five continents, Silver Spring offers end-to-end networking services on demand for the Internet of Important Things through its public cloud IPv6 networking and data platform, Starfish, including service-level agreements (SLAs) specifying business requirements, applications, or performance, reliability and security obligations. Silver Spring is ramping up deployments of Starfish in major metropolitan areas including Bristol, Chicago, Copenhagen, Glasgow, London, San Antonio, San Jose, Stockholm, and in Kolkata, India.

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