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| Light Reading Leading Lights Awards Entry Form
In 2004, Light Reading established an important annual industry awards program, through which top public and private companies and their executives are recognized for their outstanding achievements in the communications industry: the Leading Lights Awards.
This year, we're doing it again - and, again, we've added a few twists.
Twist #1: We will no longer will we have separate awards for public and private companies in the categories of Best Marketing, Best New Product, and Best New Service. All companies will compete for a single award in each of these categories. Let the fun begin!
Twist #2: Gone is the award for Best M&A Strategy (Public Company). Replacing it is a more broadly-defined award with a cooler name: Best Deal Maker. This award will serve to recognize public companies that have built their businesses in the past year in creative ways, via mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic investments, etc. If your public company has extended its reach by doing interesting deals, you're eligible.
Twist #3: We have a new award for private companies: Best New Startup. This award will be handed to a company started on or after January 1, 2007, that appears to hold the most promise for helping service providers on their path to building and operating next-generation networks. So-called "stealth-mode" companies are welcome, but you may not take home the cheese if we can't say what it is you do.
That enough twists for ya? We hope so. We also hope you're racking your brain to think of this year's Person of the Year. That award returns for a second year, and, just as before, we'll let the readers help us decide which of the industry's top execs deserve individual recognition for their hard work, technical prowess, or ability to lead companies through challenging times.
The awards categories and judging criteria have been developed based on our publication's eight years of experience analyzing telecommunications, plus feedback from our Heavy Reading analysts, industry sources, and conversations with top service providers.
To enter the awards competition, please fill out the form below and submit your entry!
The Leading Lights Awards Dinner will take place on October 20, 2008. The deadline for entries is September 19, 2008.
Click here to preview the full Leading Lights Entry Form.
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DATE: 9/3/2008
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DATE: Thursday, September 18, 2008
LOCATION: The Westin Waltham Boston, Boston/Waltham
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| Companies |
Alcatel-Lucent (5492), AT&T (1683), BellSouth (837), BT (1132), Cablevision (403), Cisco (4808), Comcast (1252), Cox Communications (608), Deutsche Telekom (743), eBay (Skype) (329), Ericsson (1351), France Telecom (893), Google (448), Huawei (835), Intel (1113), Juniper (1878), Microsoft (1004), Motorola (1222), Nokia Siemens Networks (2419), Nortel (3719), NTT (117), Siemens (1352), Sprint (1014), Telefonica (379), Time Warner Cable (620), Verizon (2274), Vodafone (463), Yahoo (325)
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| Broadband |
Access equipment (1926), Access technologies (2128), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (350), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (880), Cable TV chips (172), DSL (1883), DSL chips (188), DSLAMs (648), Free-space optics (31), FTTx (1761), Gaming consoles (34), Gaming servers (22), Media adapters (10), Municipal networks (100), PON (935), PON chips (185), Satellite (335), WiMax (761), Wireless LAN (337)
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| Cable Digital |
Cable Modems (323), Cable/MSO equipment (2553), CableLabs (250), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (167), DOCSIS (552), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (119), Head-ends (102), PacketCable (93), QAM (200)
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| Chips, Components & Subsystems |
ASICs & FPGAs (79), ATCA (390), ATM chips (13), Comm chips (2182), Dispersion compensators (140), Lasers (871), Modulators (149), Mux/demuxes (294), Network processors (849), Optical amplifiers (329), Optical channel monitors (90), Optical components (2587), Speciality fiber (77), Switches & OADMs (371), Transceivers (1139), Transmission fiber (405), Variable optical attenuators (138)
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| Ethernet |
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1322), Access devices (224), ATM switches (334), Circuit emulation (15), Converged access (90), Ethernet chips (497), Ethernet equipment (1632), Ethernet over copper (198), Ethernet PONs (141), Ethernet services (1528), Ethernet technologies (438), Multipoint (119), Multiservice edge equipment (119), Multiservice provisioning platforms (607), Multiservice switches (379), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (186), Point-to-point (124), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (121)
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| IP & Convergence |
B-RASs (222), Cell/WLAN (76), Compression equipment (9), Core routers (1169), DNS (50), Edge routers (1481), ENUM (50), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (472), GMPLS (75), IMS (965), IMS Control Layer (28), IMS Service Layer (27), IP equipment (1009), IP software (333), IP technologies (1348), IPv6 (65), Layer 3 VPNs (137), MPLS (1660), MPLS (677), Multicast (29), P2P (224), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (121), QOS (332), SIP (357), Traffic managers (745), Wireline/Wireless (54)
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| Mobile/Wireless |
3G Evolution (134), Carrier WiFi (176), CDMA (3G) (239), Core Network (136), EV-DO (99), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (70), GSM/EDGE (334), HSDPA/HSUPA (269), IMS Core (39), Mobile/Wireless (4822), Packet Core (42), Radio Access Network (180), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (34), Transmission (33), UMTS(3G) (264), Voice Core (18), WiMax (761), Wireless Backhaul (158), Wireless Chips (156), Wireless LAN (337)
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| Optical Networking |
40-Gbit/s transmission (364), Core optical switches (747), CWDM (277), DWDM (1719), Long-haul WDM equipment (543), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1100), Metro WDM equipment (687), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (361), Optical equipment (1615), Optical switches & crossconnects (390), Optical technologies (338), Sonet/SDH (975), Sonet/SDH chips (315), Wavelength services (243)
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| Security |
Anti-virus (27), Denial-of-service attacks (38), Encryption (80), Endpoint security (19), Firewalls (55), Intrusion detection & prevention (36), IPSec VPN (796), Security (1699), SSL VPN (860), URL filtering (11), User authentication (19)
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Activation (403), Billing systems (643), Content/software downloads (209), Customer relationship management (164), Data Integrity (12), Element management systems (29), Fault management (57), Inventory management (134), Mediation systems (190), Messaging (184), Middleware (42), Mobile location (34), OSS (2149), Performance monitoring (258), Policy control (183), Provisioning (499), Revenue assurance & fraud management (307), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (267), Service management (128), Service-oriented architectures (261), Services (1957), Web gateways (37), Web services (92), XML (48)
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| Test & Measurement |
Access equipment Access test & measurement equipment (114), Comm chips Comm chips test & measurement equipment (29), Ethernet equipment Ethernet test & measurement equipment (127), IP equipment IP test & measurement equipment (91), MPLS MPLS test & measurement equipment (11), Optical components Optical components test & measurement equipment (100), Optical equipment Optical test & measurement equipment (825), OSS OSS test & measurement (1035), Sonet/SDH Sonet/SDH test & measurement equipment (1581), Test & measurement (1422), VOIP equipment VOIP test & measurement equipment (137)
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| Video (Sponsored by Ericsson AB) |
Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (178), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (545), Content delivery network (CDN) (288), Content protection (181), DVRs (324), Internet Video (405), IPTV (2543), Middleware & business support systems (444), Set-top boxes (1079), Stored video servers (265), TV (2140), Video equipment (2124), Video services (3364), Video software (1054), Videophone (160), VOD (1849)
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| VOIP |
Application servers (161), Centrex (180), Conferencing (69), Contact centers (38), Enhanced voice (28), Enterprise (563), Media gateways (318), Messaging (59), Presence management (38), Residential (641), Session border controllers (358), Signaling gateways (91), Softswitches (1031), VOIP chips (143), VOIP equipment (3213), VOIP services (3474), VOIP software (550), VOIP VPNs (24), Wholesale (212)
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