REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Silver Spring Networks (NYSE:SSNI) announced that its Gen5 networking platform has been recognized with a ‘Smart Grid Product of the Year’ award from SmartGrid.TMCnet.com. With major advancements in speed, latency, range, distributed intelligence, power optimization, and size, the Gen5 platform strengthens core smart grid operations, plus an emerging set of applications for real-time operations data, Distribution Automation, dynamic applications at t