Questex’s Fierce Network Announces the 2024 Fierce Network Innovation Awards Winners

/EIN News/ -- NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Questex’s Fierce Network, a mega portal designed to meet the needs of decision makers throughout the global communications industry, today unveils the winners of the 2024 Fierce Network Innovation Awards. Building on the esteemed legacy of the Fierce Innovation Awards: Telecom Edition, this program recognizes the visionaries and innovators shaping the future of the network communications landscape – from wireless to broadband to cloud.

The Fierce Network Innovation Awards honor groundbreaking companies, technologies, and individuals that are revolutionizing the communications industry. These innovations demonstrate exceptional potential to drive cost savings, enhance customer engagement, and transform network capabilities.

The 2024 Fierce Network Innovation Awards Winners

AI

• AI Empowered Receiver Design for 6G Wireless Communications: InterDigital
  

Analytics/Automation

• Rakuten AI for Telecom: Rakuten Symphony
  

Business Services

• MetTel SD-WAN: MetTel
  

BSS/OSS

• Rakuten Symphony OSS Product Suite: Rakuten Symphony
  

Cloud Networking (Public, Private or Hybrid)

• Rakuten Cloud: Rakuten Symphony
  

Cloud Data Center

• Nokia Event-Driven Automation (EDA): Nokia
  

Customer Engagement

• TNS Enterprise Branded Calling: Transaction Network Services
  

Digital Divide

• Aqualinq: Aqualinq
  

IoT

• CDM - Cognitive Digital Mine: Nokia
  

Network Test and Measurement

• RADCOM Virtual Drive Test: RADCOM
  

Next-Gen Deployment Fiber/Wireline

• Aqualinq: Aqualinq
  

Security

• SingVerify and Enterprise Mobile Protect: Singtel
  

Sustainability

• The Ocient Hyperscale Data Warehouse™: Ocient
  

Top Changemaker

• Rahul Atri, Managing Director, Rakuten Symphony India and President, OSS BU, Rakuten Symphony
  

Wireless – Fixed Wireless

• Redefining Retirement Living Through 5G mmWave FWA Connectivity: Airspan Networks
  

Wireless – Mobile Evolution

• Intrado Locate Before Route (LBR): Intrado
  

Wireless – Private Wireless Networks

• Celona 5G LAN: Celona
  

Wireless – Wireless RAN

• Opportunity for 50% greater spectral capacity using Cohere’s Universal Spectrum Multiplier Software xApp to relieve Congested Low & Mid Band FDD spectrum during O-RAN base station update: Cohere Technologies and Vodafone
  

“Congratulations to this year’s Fierce Network Innovation Awards winners, the innovators shaping the future of network communications,” said Elizabeth Coyne, Editor in Chief of Fierce Network. “We commend them for this recognition and acknowledge their outstanding work.”

Winners were selected by an esteemed panel of industry leaders as judges, including analysts and service providers, ensuring that only the most innovative and impactful contributions were recognized.

For more information on the awards program, visit https://awards.fierce-network.com/. For partnership inquiries, reach out to Scott Gruntorad at sgruntorad@questex.com.

About Fierce Network 
The global communications, enterprise and cloud networking and infrastructure industries is converging as the separation between wireless, wireline and cloud ceases to exist while the world’s operators shift toward cloud-native, intelligent, automated networks driven by artificial intelligence. Fierce Network is tracking this sea change by delivering a mega portal of hard-hitting industry news and analysis, designed to meet the needs of today’s decision makers. Fierce Network covers artificial intelligence (AI), automation, fixed and mobile broadband, cloud infrastructure, application modernization, security and more to help readers analyze the day's news and show them what they need to know and why they need to know it. Fierce Network also produces special reports that take stock of the industry's services and finances and shed light on industry trends. To learn more, visit https://www.fierce-network.com. 
  
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