[May 18, 2005] SUPERCOMM Salutes 17 Industry Winners with 8th Annual SUPERQuest Awards Tweet ARLINGTON, Va. --(Business Wire)-- May 18, 2005 -- Organizers of SUPERCOMM(R) today announced the nine winners and eight runners-up of the 8th Annual SUPERQuest Awards. SUPERCOMM, the world's premier annual exhibition and conference for communications service providers and private network managers, comes to Chicago's McCormick Place, June 6-9. The SUPERQuest Awards are 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 are 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 comprising industry-leading technology press, analysts and other experts. According to Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) President Matthew J. Flanigan, "Each year at SUPERCOMM, hundreds of technology companies exhibit and demonstrate industry-leading products and services. Of those companies, there are a handful that embody the highest degree of innovation in our field. It is those companies we honor with the SUPERQuest Awards." The 8th Annual SUPERQuest Award winners and runners-up in their respective categories are: -0- *T Most Promising New Technologies in 2005 Access Networking Equipment: Winner: UTStarcom, Inc. (The F1000 Portable Wi-Fi Handset) Runner Up: GigaBeam Corporation (WiFiber(TM) Wireless Fiber) Backbone/Edge Networking Equipment: Winner: Overture Networks (ISG 140, ISG 180) Runner Up: Redline Communications (RedMAX(TM) AN-100U) Optical Networking: Winner: Mangrove Systems (Piranha 600(TM) Pseudowire Aggregator) Runner Up: ANDA Networks (EtherDAX(TM) 6000) Application Layer Systems, Related Equipment and Technologies: Winner: ZyXEL Communications, Inc. (P2000W v2 - VoIP Wi-Fi Phone) Runner Up: Motorola, Inc. (Global Applications Management Architecture--GAMA) Continuous Achievement: Winner: Motorola's Canopy Wireless Broadband Group (Canopy(TM) Wireless Broadband Platform) Runner Up: Tekelec (Tekelec 6000 VoIP Application Server---Tekelec 6000) Network Design and Services Backbone/Core Networks, Metro and/or Related Services: Winner: Expedient (Ethernet Anywhere(TM)) Runner Up: UTStarcom, Inc. (Yahoo! BB hikari) Wireless/Mobile Networks and/or Services: Winner: Colubris Networks (InReach MultiService Access Point 330--MAP 330) Runner Up: None Outsourced and Managed Services: Winner: WilTel Communications (StorageXtend) Runner Up: OmniOSS, Inc. (TimelyBill) Network Infrastructure: Winner: New Global Telecom, nominated and supplied by NexTone (Ipartition - based on NexTone's iView Management System) Runner Up: Cox Communications, nominated and supplied by Fujitsu (Carrier Ethernet Network - New Orleans Public Schools) *T SUPERCOMM is 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. For more information about SUPERCOMM, please visit http://www.supercomm2005.com. SUPERCOMM(R) is a registered trademark of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the United States Telecom Association (USTA). [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]