The Leading Lights, Light Reading's flagship awards program, is back for 2024.
This is our program's 20th year, and this year we'll award 20 awards in 20 categories that recognize the industry's top companies and executives for communications industry achievements.
We start accepting award submissions on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Please mark that date on your calendar, subscribe to our daily newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn so we can alert you as soon as the awards portal opens.
As we do each year, we highlight themes that draw attention to the constant evolution of the global communications sector, its technologies, use cases, products and companies.
In our 20th year, we're devoting half of the contest categories to the practical application of cutting-edge tech from telecom service providers, their suppliers and the extended ecosystem.
Here are this year's contest categories:
Most Innovative Broadband Product or Solution
Most Innovative Cloud Product or Service
Most Innovative Optical Networking Product
Most Innovative RAN Product or Solution
Most Innovative Routing and Switching Solution
Most Innovative Service Provider Transport Product or Solution
Most Innovative Telecom Software Product or Solution
Most Innovative Test & Measurement Product or Solution
Outstanding Use Case: AI/Machine Learning
Outstanding Use Case: Bridging the Digital Divide
Outstanding Use Case: Customer Experience
Outstanding Use Case: Driving Digital Transformation
Outstanding Use Case: IoT
Outstanding Use Case: Network and Service Automation
Outstanding Use Case: Network Energy Efficiency
Outstanding Use Case: Networked Edge
Outstanding Use Case: Private Networks
Outstanding Use Case: RAN Deployment
Related:What's the Story? The Leading Lights Awards
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