BROADBAND INFOVISION AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED
26 October 2010 – The winners of the 2010 Broadband InfoVision Awards were honoured at a special gala dinner awards presentation cruise during the Broadband World Forum in Paris tonight.
The Broadband InfoVision Awards, which have long been established as the industry’s leading awards event celebrating excellence within the broadband marketplace, saw the industry’s top-level executives board the Bateau Diamant to celebrate the most notable broadband innovations, products and services.
One of the unique features of these awards that make them particularly valued is the fact that the Judges are drawn from senior personnel the world’s leading operators, such as China Telecom, AT&T, Orange, PCCW, Etisalat, Telstra, Telus, Korea Telekom and Deutsche Telekom.
Gavin Whitechurch, director of the Broadband World Forum, commented: “The InfoVision Awards are a tremendous opportunity to celebrate excellence in the broadband industry and the breadth and calibre of this year’s submissions was unprecedented with more than 145 entries.
“It is fantastic to be able to honour those who are helping the industry grow and evolve – congratulations to all the winners.”
This year a number of new categories have been added to reflect the full broadband ecosystem and promote the activities of operators and content providers in the Broadband market place.
The winners of the Broadband InfoVision Awards in full:
Category 1 – Best New Service
Dial2Do – HandsFreeAssistant
A productivity service that enables drivers to get more done, safely, while driving, including sending a text message, listening to an email, updating Twitter, and accessing Google Calendar and Remember the Milk.
Category 2 – Broadband Access Network Technologies and Services
Huawei – 10G PON System
Intended to enable operators to upgrade their existing PON system smoothly, without incurring the need to change the optical distribution network (ODN), and provides operators with four times the bandwidth upgrade and full-service carrying capability.
Category 3 – Broadband Network and Services Management and Operations
BT Wholesale – DLM Process
Ensures that broadband lines perform to their maximum capabilities, by adding its own innovations to the industry-wide DLM capability.
Category 4 – Content, Entertainment, Applications and Services
TV Genius – Content Delivery Platform and Relevance Engine
Enhances the TV experience with personalised search options, providing relevant recommendations across TV, mobile and the Web.
Category 5 – Broadband Home: Appliances, Devices, Home Networks & Services
Technicolor – Media Touch 2
A Wi-Fi media tablet with IPTV capabilities, based on the Android operating system which gives it access to a continually evolving library of third party apps, as well as integrating all the elements of the network provider’s service offering in a single device.
Category 6 – Enabling Silicon and Component-Level Technologies
Juniper Networks – Junos Trio
A new purpose-built silicon chipset, based on an advanced network instruction set designed and optimised for the next-generation services edge.
Category 7 – Core & MetroNetwork Innovation and Advances
Ciena – 100G Coherent Optical Solution
Enables operators to increase the bandwidth of their existing 10G and 40G fibre infrastructure by 10 and 2.5 times respectively through simple plug-and-play technology components – without the need to re-engineer their networks or deploy new equipment.
Category 8 – Green Broadband Awards
ZTE Corporation – ZXA10 C300
A multi-service optical access platform (OLT) is a “one size fits all” platform offering key benefits to any operator looking for a green and future proof solution with lower total cost of ownership.
Category 9 – Broadband Innovation of the Year
Alcatel-Lucent – Phantom Mode: Bridging the Gap between Copper and Fiber
Boosts the capabilities of copper-based DSL networks by creating a third virtual pair on top of two physical pairs.
Category 10 – Changing Lives Awards
Telstra – Telstra’s Arnhem Land Fibre Project
Australia’s largest optic fibre and broadband infrastructure projects undertaken in recent times – the Arnhem Land Fibre Project laid over 800km of fibre optic cable across fragile terrain, in difficult climatic conditions between Jabiru and Nhulunbuy
For more information on the InfoVision Awards winners – including quotes, interviews, headshots and videos – please visit http://www.broadbandworldforum.com/latest_news2/20/press_pack_-_broadband_infovision_awards/_nocache. For more information on the Broadband World Forum, please visit www.broadbandworldforum.com.