We present you si100 2012. This is the 15th year that si100 companies are being selected and honored!

si100 is an annual listing of the top 100 technology companies founded and managed by Indians in the U.S. The si100 not only represents the continuing rise and glory of Indian entrepreneurship in high-tech but also recognizes companies impacting the market place.

A distinguished panel comprising accomplished Indian CEO's & CIO's of public companies, VC's, analysts, founders of other VC funded companies including siliconindia editorial board decided on the top 100 companies listed below.
Top 5 Networking companies
Name Founders Founded Description
Aryaka
Milpitas, CA
aryaka.com
Ajit Gupta
CEO
2008 A cloud based WAN Optimization company solving application and network performance issues faced by the distributed enterprise. Investors- Nexus Venture Partners, Interwest Partners, Presido Partners, Trinity Ventures and Mohr Davidow Ventures; Fund raised: $49.5 Million
Aspen Networks
Santa Clara, CA
aspen-networks.com
Sajit Bhaskaran
Chairman & CEO
2006 Develops and markets network appliances that integrate into a company's existing network to enhance Internet availability and application performance.
Pronto networks
pleaston, CA
Prontonetworks.com
Nandu Desai President & CEO 2001 A carrier-class operations support systems (OSS) that enables network operators to deploy and manage large Public WLAN networks. The company's software handles provisioning, configuration, authentication, access control, security, pre-paid and post-paid billing, and roaming settlement issues.
Exinda
Boston, MA
exinda.com
Michael Sharma
CEO
2002 A global supplier of WAN Optimisation and application acceleration products. The optimization aims to enhance the end user experience, manage application performance, manage congestion over the WAN and reduce network operating costs. Investors- Greenspring Associates, OpenView Venture Partners; Fund Raised: $18 Million
PLUMGrid
Sunnyvale CA
plumgrid.com
Awais Nemat
CEO
2011 A network infrastructure software vendor, selling network virtualization solutions to companies building and managing data centers.PLUMgrid’s software runs on standard hardware moving packets. Investors: Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, US Venture Partners; Fund Raised: $10.7 Million