Thalasar Ventures

WASHINGTON, DC (PRWEB) November 12, 2014

FierceMarkets (http://www.fiercemarkets.com) announced today the winners of its third annual Fierce Innovation Awards: Telecom Edition. The Fierce Innovation Awards is an operator-reviewed awards program from the publishers of FierceWireless, FierceTelecom, and FierceCable.

Jason Nelson, Publisher of FierceWireless, FierceTelecom, and FierceCable, says, “As the Innovation Awards program grows each year so does the level of innovation we see from our entrants. To that end, we are thrilled to be able to offer applicants a unique channel to share their products and services with such an esteemed panel of judges from major global operators.”

Honorees were selected by an exclusive panel of carrier-only judges including Ralph Brown, Chief Technical Officer, CableLabs; Cameron Coursey, VP of Product Development, AT&T’s Emerging Devices Organization; Mattias Fridstrom, VP and Head of Technology, TeliaSonera International; Daniel Gurrola, Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, Orange; Andrew Ip, Senior Vice President of Infrastructure and Wireless Technology Management, Cablevision System Corporation; Ron Marquardt, Vice President of Technology, Sprint Innovation and Architecture; Dan Murphy, Director, Verizon Innovation Program; Tom Nagel, SVP and GM of Wireless, Comcast ; and Marci Saaijenga, Vice President, Technology Quality and Control Office, Cox Communications, Inc.

Judges evaluated submissions based on the following criteria: technology innovation, financial impact, market validation and end-user customer experience.

The five “Best in Show” Winners are:

        Best Green Installation

        Procera Networks, Inc.: RAN Perspectives

        Best Cost-Saving Innovation

        Guavus: CareReflex™

        Best New Revenue Creator/Enhancer

        Payfone, Inc.: Payfone Signature

        Best Technological Problem Solver

        Arbor Networks: Peakflow Threat Management System

        Overall Best New Product/Service

        Openet: Real-time Offer Manager

The Fierce Innovation Award Winners are:

Cable TV/Advanced TV & Video Networks:

Cable & Video Network Architecture

Edgeware: Edgeware Video Consolidation Platform (VCP)

Set-top Boxes & Related Devices

Sling Media, Inc.: Slingbox M1

Over-the-top Services

Kaltura: Kaltura OTT TV

Multi-screen

Adobe: Adobe Primetime

Wireless Networks:

Next-Gen Deployment

Avvasi, Inc.: Q-SRV

Cell Sites

Nextivity: Cel-Fi Duo

Traffic Offload

Nitero: NT4600

Metrocell Backhaul

AOptix: Intellimax

Wireline Networks:

Data Communications

Guavus: CareReflex™

Core/Transport

Ciena: 8700 Packetwave Platform

Last Mile/Edge/Access

California Eastern Laboratories: MeshWorks™

Data Centers

BTI Systems: BTI Cloud Networking Solution

Network Support, Software, Service Delivery

Conditional Access, Digital Rights Management and Authentication

Payfone, Inc.: Payfone Signature

Cloud Services

Voxox: Voxox

Service/Session Creation, Orchestration & Delivery

Stream: IoTx

B/OSS

Openet: Real-time Offer Manager

Network & Device Security

Arbor Networks: Peakflow Threat Management System

Network Test & Measurement

Procera Networks, Inc.: RAN Perspectives

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