Fatpipe Inc, has announced that President and Chief Technology Officer, the inventor of SDWAN, Ms. Sanchaita Datta was voted as the Silicon Slopes Hall of Fame and Awards 2022 Chief Technology Officer of the Year.

Ms. Datta, a respected technology entrepreneur, invented the technology now called Software Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN). She holds 13 US patents covering the core aspects of SDWAN. Her technology revolutionized the transmission of data over wide area networks by providing network resiliency, redundancy and WAN security across multiple data carriers.

Ms. Datta was appointed by Governor Spencer Cox to serve as a Trustee of Utah System of Higher Education and earlier by Governor Gary Herbert to the Board of Regents. She is also a Member of the International Advisory Board for Utah Valley University and served as Trustee for Salt Lake Community College. She was one of the founding members of Women’s Technology Council and was a member of the Ethernet and Wireless IEEE Standards Committees for 802.3, 802.11 and 802.12.

She received YWCA’s Outstanding Achievement Award and was also recognized as one of the 30 Women to Watch and Top 25 Most Influential Business People in Utah.