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LTE Asia Awards 2014 shortlist announced

The organisers of LTE Asia have today announced the shortlist for the first LTE Asia Awards 2014. The 9th Annual LTE Asia event serves as the setting for the awards, which will reward key achievements and advances across the LTE ecosystem in Asia. This year's awards have received a high number of entries with eight categories up for grabs!

Taking place at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, Singapore, this luxurious setting will provide a backdrop to the awards ceremony which will bring together the experts responsible for driving LTE forwards in the region over the past year. Considered a mark of industry excellence, the awards are judged by a panel of senior analysts who have a vast amount of knowledge about the Asian LTE market.

This year's judging panel will include Ajay Sunder, Senior Director - Telecom, Frost & Sullivan, Dimitris Mavrakis, Principal Analyst, Ovum, Guang Yang, Senior Analyst - Wireless Operator Strategies, Strategy Analytics and Alan Quayle, Owner, Alan Quayle Business & Service Development.

The awards will be presented during a cocktails reception on the evening of 24 September, the final day of the event itself. The reception is open to all attendees of the LTE Asia conference.

The awards ensure industry recognition for those shortlisted. Congratulations go to this year's shortlisted companies, seen below:

Best Test/Measurement LTE Product

    Anite, Network Testing Division -Nemo CEM Observer
    Gemalto- NxRay
    JDSU- JDSU CellAdvisor™ Base Station Analyzer
    PCTEL- PCTEL's RAN Mobile Testing Suite.
    Polystar- Solver (for VoLTE - SRVCC testing)

Most Significant Development of a Commercial LTE Network (Operators Only)

    Optus- LTE 700 MHz commercial launch
    Singtel- Commercial LTE
    SK Telecom- World's First Commercial 225Mbps LTE-Advanced and Pre-5G trials

Best LTE Core Network Product

    Alcatel-Lucent- 7750 Service Router Mobile Gateway
    Cisco Systems, Inc. - ASR5000 Series
    Dialogic, Inc. - Dialogic® BorderNet™ Diameter Services Helix
    Huawei Technology- Huawei SingleEPC MSE Solution
    Mavenir Systems- Mavenir's Converged Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and Session Border Controller

Best Traffic Management Product

    Ascom Network Testing- TEMSTM Capacity Manager
    Gigamon- GigaVUE-HC2 Multi-Purpose Visibility Fabric Node
    Polystar- Network and Customer Insight Solutions

Best LTE Roaming Product

    Mavenir Systems- Interconnect Session Border Controller I-SBC)
    Polystar- Network and Customer Insight Solutions
    SAP Mobile Services, a division of SAP- SAP IPX 365
    Telstra Corporation- Telstra Internet Package Exchange

Best VoLTE Innovation

    HKT Limited- Voice over LTE Service
    LG Uplus.- LG Uplus.
    Mavenir Systems- Mavenir's Multi-Device, Multi-Access network Service Ubiquity Solution
    Samsung Electronics- Smart VoLTE with InteractiV
    Singtel- VoLTE

Innovation in HetNet Development

    Cisco Systems,Inc- Small Cell Design and Technology Innovation
    Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.- Huawei LampSite Solution
    Samsung Electronics- Samsung Advanced HetNet

NFV Innovation of the Year

    Cisco Systems, Inc- Cisco Quantum Virtualized Packet Core - Orchestrated
    Mavenir Systems- Virtualized RCS based on NFV

ENDS

About LTE Asia
LTE Asia provides an opportunity to meet and network with leaders in the Asian LTE community and is recognised by the entire industry as the place to learn from and meet key decision-makers and thought-leaders. This leading 4G event attracts 1000+ high level attendees from across the APAC region, bringing together the ecosystem to discuss a wide range of issues including monetising LTE, hetnets, network optimisation, LTE evolution, 5G.

About Informa Telecoms & Media
Informa Telecoms and Media (http://www.informatandm.com/) organises 125 global annual events, attended by more than 70,000 executives worldwide. With a focus on quality content, Informa Telecoms and Media deliver a key audience of decision-makers from the mobile, fixed, alternative, wholesale, MVNO, broadband and satellite operator communities. Informa Telecoms and Media is also the leading provider of business intelligence and strategic services to the global telecoms and media markets. Driven by constant first-hand contact with the industry, its 90 analysts and researchers produce a range of intelligence services including news and analytical products, in depth market reports and datasets focussed on technology, strategy and content.

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Source: RealWire



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