[June 08, 2004] 18 Industry Winners Saluted With SUPERCOMM'S 7th Annual SUPERQuest Award ARLINGTON, Va. --(Business Wire)-- June 8, 2004 -- SUPERCOMM, the world's largest annual all-inclusive exhibition and conference for communication service providers and private network managers, today announced the 18 winners of the 7th Annual SUPERQuest Awards. SUPERCOMM, which is produced and managed by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), will be held at McCormick Place in Chicago, June 20 - 24. For seven years, the SUPERQuest Awards have been the pre-eminent honor given to communications and IT product and service manufacturers for superior achievement in public and private network design and operations. SUPERQuest Award recipients have been selected as the best of the best in creating the most innovative new technologies and products or supplying the best new enterprise solutions. Winners are chosen by a panel of judges that includes industry-leading technology press, analysts and other experts. A new award this year, the Continuing Achievement Award, recognizes companies whose network design, service, or technology has been in operation for at least 3 years as of June 1, 2004, and continues to demonstrate superior performance. According to Jack Chalden, general manager of SUPERCOMM, "The strength and resiliency of this industry is reflected in the SUPERQuest Award Winners and Runners-Up. These forward-thinking, innovative companies give promise to the continuing growth and development of this industry and show us exactly where we should be headed in the future." The 7th Annual SUPERQuest Award winners and runners-up in their respective categories are: -0- *T Backbone/Core Networks or Services Winner: Voiceglo Runner Up: OnFiber Communications Wireless/Mobile Networks or Services Winner: ESPRE Solutions Outsourced and OSS/BSS Services Winner: OmniOSS Runner Up: LLE Language Services Network Infrastructure Winner: Level 3 Runner Up: Mahi Networks, Inc. Continuous Achievement: Service Provider Winner: TowerStream Access Networking Equipment Winner: Hatteras Networks Runner Up: NetSapiens, Inc. Backbone/Edge Networking Equipment Winner: Redline Communications Inc. Runner Up: Netrake Optical Networking Winner: RBN Inc. Runner Up: Mangrove Systems Inc. Application Layer Systems Winner: Nortel Networks Runner Up: Convedia Continuous Achievement: Supplier Winner: Telcordia Technologies Runner Up: BroadSoft *T SUPERCOMM 2004 is being held June 20 -- 24 at McCormick Place in Chicago. For more information about the event, please visit www.supercomm2004.com. SUPERCOMM is produced and managed by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), http://www.tiaonline.org/, Arlington, VA and is owned jointly by TIA and the United States Telecom Association (USTA), http://www.usta.org Washington, DC [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]