What's the Story? These tech MVPs eat R&D for breakfast

Company of the Year (Private and Public): More progress needed in middle and last mile infrastructure (01:25)

Most Innovative Optical Networking Product: More AI and hyperscaler use cases for optical solutions (07:41)

Most Innovative Routing and Switching Solution: Improvements in disaggregated networks (10:47)

Liquid cooling in optical networking to improve energy efficiency (14:13)

Light Reading MVPs: Impressive company co-founders with numerous patents and R&D backgrounds; community and public policy engagement (16:59 and 27:57)

Outstanding Use Case – Customer Experience: BSS deployments for service providers in new markets, reduction of manual processes, addressing challenging geopolitical situations (19:21)

Outstanding Use Case – IoT: IoT sensors used to automate processes and battery performance emulators (22:39)

Outstanding Use Case – Network and Service Automation: Multi-vendor NaaS platforms and process automation (24:28)

Digital Equity All-Stars: Use of FWA technology and other approaches to lessening the digital divide (31:14)