Telecom Asia opened up voting for its second Readers’ Choice Awards to its online subscriber base of service providers across Asia. Voting for Asia’s best technology providers will close after October 24 and the winners will be notified by early November.
Leading the list of nominees was Huawei Technologies, with nominations in 11 categories. Ericsson was second, nominated in eight categories, followed by rapidly rising ZTE, which received seven. Other equipment suppliers nominated in more than one category were Amdocs, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Comverse, Intec, Juniper Networks, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel and Oracle.
The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in Hong Kong on December 11 to recognize the technology innovations and accomplishments of the top telecom vendors operating in Asia Pacific.
Nominations for 22 categories were open to analysts, consultants and high-level telco executives in September. A total of 56 telecom insiders submitted amore than 1,150 nominations. Telecom Asia’s editorial team narrowed down the list of nominations in each of the categories after consulting with a team analysts.
In additional to the Readers’ Choice Awards, Telecom Asia will also be announcing Special Editor Recognition Awards at the ceremony in up to five categories.
Shortlist of Nominees
Best Infrastructure Provider of the Year
Ericsson
Huawei Technologies
Nokia Siemens Networks
ZTE
Best Green Infrastructure Provider of the Year
Alcatel-Lucent
Ericsson
Nokia Siemens Networks
VNL
Wireless Network Vendor of the Year
Ericsson
Huawei Technologies
Nokia Siemens Networks
ZTE
Broadband Network Vendor of the Year
BNS
Cisco
Huawei Technologies
RAD Data
ZTE
Wireless Broadband Network Vendor of the Year
Alcatel-Lucent
Ericsson
Huawei Technologies
Motorola
ZTE
NGN Infrastructure Vendor of the Year
Cisco Systems
Ericsson
Huawei Technologies
Juniper Networks
Nokia Siemens Networks
Core Network Vendor of the Year
Alcatel-Lucent
Cisco
Ericsson
Huawei Technologies
NEC
Starent Networks
Wimax Vendor of the Year
Alvarion
Cisco
Huawei Technologies
Motorola
Samsung
IPTV Vendor of the Year
BNS
Harmonic
Tandberg Television
UTStarcom
ZTE
Metro Network Vendor of the Year
Cisco
ECI Telecom
Juniper Networks
Nokia Siemens Networks
Microwave Backhaul Vendor of the Year
Ceragon Networks
DragonWave
Ericsson
NEC
Nokia Siemens Networks
ZTE
FTTx Vendor of the Year
Alcatel-Lucent
Huawei Technologies
ZTE
Carrier Ethernet Vendor of the Year
Alcatel-Lucent
Cisco
Huawei Technologies
Juniper Networks
VoIP Vendor of the Year
Cisco
Huawei Technologies
Nokia Siemens Networks
Nortel Networks
Sonus
Unified Communications Vendor of the Year
Avaya
Cisco Systems
Nortel Networks
Microsoft
Optical Network Vendor of the Year
Alcatel-Lucent
Ericsson
Huawei Technologies
Infinera
Nortel Networks
Tellabs
OSS Vendor of the Year
Clarity
Comptel
Comverse
Nokia Siemens Networks
Oracle
BSS Vendor of the Year
Amdocs
Comverse
Convergys
Intec
Metratech
Best Practices – OSS/BSS Vendor
Amdocs
Comverse
Intec
Telecordia
SDP Provider of the Year
HP
IBM
Oracle
Security Solution Vendor of the Year
Cisco
Cloudmark
Juniper Networks
Best Infrastructure Management Vendor
Alcatel-Lucent
IBM
Ericsson
Nokia Siemens Networks
Special Editor Recognition Awards
Most Innovative Vendor of the Year
Network Innovation of the Year
Best Rural Wireless Broadband Implementation
M-Commerce Innovation of the Year
BI Innovation of the Year
For more information, please contact:
Joseph Waring
Group Editor
Telecom Asia, Telecomasia.net, Telecomseurope.net
+852 2589 1389
jwaring@telecomasia.net