TelcoTV: The Vision AwardsTelcoTV: The Vision Awards

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- TelcoTV 2008 -- The TelcoTV show debuted its own industry awards program this year, the TelcoTV Vision Awards, and the winners in the contest's six categories were announced here in a ceremony Wednesday afternoon. Check out the lucky recipients:



The awards intend to recognize the most compelling new products, applications, or services in the following categories: Broadband Access Networks, Conditional Access, Customer Premises Equipment, Middleware, Encoding, and Service Provider Innovation. The specific products and a list of finalists in each category can be found here. The judges' bios and the awards criteria can be found here.

The judges panel -- Bernardin Arnason, Managing Partner, Pivot Group , and Chairman, TelcoTV 2008; Joseph Braue, SVP and Group Director, Light Reading; Steve Fravel, Video Services Manager, NTCA - The Rural Broadband Association ; Keith Galitz, President, Canby Telcom ; Aditya Kishore, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading; Kevin McGuire, VP Business & Technology, NTCA; and David Osborn, General Manager, Valley Telephone Cooperative Inc. -- combed through 65 categories and, after deliberation, awarded gongs to the following companies in the following categories: