Broomfield-based Level 3 Communications Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) received the “Best Carrier Ethernet Business Application Award – Caribbean and Latin America” from the Metro Ethernet Forum, which honors the service provider that offers the most unique and innovative business ethernet services to the enterprise segment.

The storage system developed by Louisville-based NexGen Storage Inc. received the Editor’s Choice award for innovation in the Virtualization Review Reader’s Choice Awards. NexGen’s PCIe SSD storage system manages performance such as capacity. Virtualization Review is a print publication solely devoted to IT virtualization. The 2013 awards are chosen by its readers and presented to vendors in 16 categories ranging from Virtualization Management and Cloud Infrastructure to Business Continuity and Virtualization Automation.

Boulder-based Xyleme Inc. won a gold award fro Excellence in Technology from the Brand Hall Group. Xyleme’s Bravais, a cloud-based platform for delivering personalized learning to any device enables learning content providers to deliver modular, high-value learning content anywhere, any time and on any device.

Longmont-based Mountain Secure Systems, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business that supplies electronic solutions to the defense industry, received a STAR Supplier Program award from Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). The awards are given based on a number of performance criteria, including product quality, punctual delivery and cost competitiveness. Mountain Secure Systems is a subsidiary of Livonia, Michigan-based Phillips Service Industries Inc.

University of Colorado-Boulder faculty member John Gosling is one of 18 people honored by the National Academy of Sciences for outstanding scientific achievements. Gosling, a senior research associate at CU-Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, was selected to receive the Arctowski Medal for his research on generation of energetic solar events, including solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Gosling’s research has provided new insights as to how these phenomena impact both Earth and the larger region of space dominated by the sun known as the heliosphere.