Light Reading's editors are in the middle of judging the 2021 Leading Lights Awards and this is the first in a three-part podcast series discussing the Leading Lights finalists.
On this podcast, Light Reading's Phil Harvey, Kelsey Ziser and Mike Dano discuss trends they're seeing, what's happening in the awards categories that they're judging and what they've learned from the contest entries as they dig in and prepare to announce this year's winners.
The categories covered in this podcast include:
Best New Open RAN Product
Most Innovative Hybrid Networking Strategy
Most Innovative SD-WAN Product/Service Evolution
Outstanding Use Case: Service Provider Security (can include SD-WAN)
Most Innovative 4G/5G Business Service
Most Innovative 4G/5G Consumer Service
Outstanding Use Case: Edge Computing
Best New Optical Networking/IP Product
Company of the Year (Private)
The Light Reading Hall of Fame
Outstanding Optical/IP Networking Components Vendor
— The Staff, Light Reading