QNAP® Systems, Inc. continues its tradition of success by winning the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2021. The international jury has awarded the QGD-3014-16PT the distinction “Red Dot”, which stands for high design quality.

Cost-optimized intelligent IP surveillance solution

The QGD-3014-16PT Desktop Guardian PoE managed switch has sixteen 30-watt Gigabit PoE ports, two Gigabit SFP/RJ45 combo ports and two 2.5GbE host management ports. With a dual-processor design including an Intel® Celeron® J4125 quad-core 2.0GHz processor and four 3.5-inch SATA drive bays, the QGD-3014-16PT meets requirements for high-speed transmission, storage space, and virtual machine performance in surveillance applications. Supporting VMs and QTS for versatile applications such as QVR Pro, HBS 3 and QuWAN, the QGD-3014-16PT combines surveillance deployment, video storage computing, remote backup and WAN optimization to create intelligent surveillance infrastructure and remote backup solutions.

Red Dot CEO Professor Dr. Peter Zec on the laureates

“The winners of the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2021 were particularly impressive this year. The design of their products is excellent, in terms of both the aesthetic and the functionality. It’s not easy to prevail in such a strong field of competitors and to win over our jury. Consequently, I want to congratulate the laureates very sincerely on their success,” said Professor Dr. Peter Zec, founder and CEO of Red Dot.

Evaluation platform for good design

The Red Dot Award: Product Design dates back as far as 1955 and recognises the best products for a given year. The roughly 50 jurors were once again true to the motto “In search of good design and innovation” in the 2021 competition. The international panel of experts comprises specialists from a wide variety of sectors. They scrutinised the products entered in the competition in a process that spanned several days and were guided by assessment criteria such as the product’s formal quality, ergonomics and longevity.

See the QGD-3014-16PT in exhibitions, online and in the yearbook

From 21 June 2021, the QGD-3014-16PT can be viewed in an online exhibition on the Red Dot website. That date also marks the beginning of the Red Dot Design Week, during which this year’s award winners and QNAP® Systems, Inc. will be celebrated online.

From 22 June 2021, the QGD-3014-16PT will be included in the exhibition “Design on Stage” in the Red Dot Design Museum, Essen, where all the award-winning products are showcased. Visitors to the museum can experience the quality of the designs in a space that features contemporary design solutions and historical industrial architecture. The Red Dot Design Yearbook 2021/2022 comes out in August. The publication provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art and trends in product design.