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NXTcomm Eos Awards Honors Industry's FinestARLINGTON, Va. --(Business Wire)-- NXTcomm, the only venue where the business and technology of communications, information and entertainment meet, today announced the winners of the 2007 Eos Excellence of Achievement Awards. The inaugural Eos Awards honor those exhibiting companies that have developed the most promising new technologies or provided the best new network services and strategic support. NXTcomm will be held June 18-21 at McCormick Place in Chicago. Eos Award winners were honored for best new technology or enterprise solution in twelve categories covering the entire range of wireless, broadband, and next-generation technologies and services for both public and enterprise networks. The winners and finalists will be recognized during a special reception on Wednesday, June 20. "Our exhibitors truly raised the bar this year, resulting in fierce competition," said Wayne Crawford, NXTcomm Executive Director. "Awards were given in 12 far-reaching categories, demonstrating NXTcomm's enormous reach. In addition to traditional categories like backbone, core and edge technologies, Eos awards were also presented for achievement in home networking, IPTV, advanced mobile services and strategic support. Each Eos winner deserves significant praise for its leadership, innovation and role in driving our industry forward." A judging panel of 16 consultants, technical journalists and service providers from the communications industry selected the following Eos Award winners: Network Design/Services Group ---------------------------------- Backbone/Core Product or Service Winner: XO Communications XO Inter-City Network Runner Up: NEC Corp. of America GCI/NEC Alaskan Bandwidth Project Wireless/Mobile/Network Services Product or Service Winner: Clearwire Corp. Clearwire Wireless Broadband Runner Up: Motorola Mesh HotZone Duo Education Research Networks/China Network Network Infrastructure Product or Service Winner: Greenfield Communications Greenfield Fiber to the Home Runner Up: Mu Security/Net Appliance Mu-4000 Technology Innovation Group ---------------------------------- Backbone/Edge Product or Service Winner: Procera Networks, Inc. PacketLogic PL9200 Runner Up: Tekelec TekCore Session Manager Optical Networking Product or Service Winner: MRV Communications, Inc. OptiSwitch 930 10GE Metro Ethernet Demarcation Runner Up: Ciena Corp. FlexSelect 40G Shelf/Ciena's CoreStream Agility Optical Transport System Application/Layer Product or Service Winner: RadiSys Corp. RadiSys Convedia Media Server Runner Up: Convergin, Inc. Accolade WCS Platform Access Networking Product or Service Winner: Motorola, Inc. Motorola wi4 WiMax Flexible Access Point System Runner Up: Axerra Networks AXN10-8NR Pseudo-Wire Access Device Wireless/Mobile Technologies Product or Service Winner: Multi-Tech Systems Call Finder GSM/CDMA Runner Up: Strix Systems Access/One Network Edge Wireless System 150 Home Networking Product or Service Winner: Ruckus Wireless Ruckus MetroFlex Dual Zone System Runner Up: Entropic Communications c.Link Content Delivery and Management Product or Service Winner: Redback Networks SmartEdge 1200 Runner Up: Kasenna Inc. PortalTV Special Categories Group ---------------------------------- Strategic Support Product or Service Winner: Microsoft Corp. Microsoft Connected Services Sandbox Runner Up: Hatteras Networks Mid-Band Ethernet Ongoing Achievement Product or Service Winner: Corning Inc. Preconnectorized Access Network Product Innovations Runner Up: EZchip Technologies NP-x Network Processors Family A 13th award, called the Spotlight Award, will be selected by attending press and analysts and will be given to one of the 12 Eos Award winners. NXTcomm exhibitors nominated themselves, their customers or their vendors for best new technology or enterprise solution in 12 categories covering the entire range of wireless, broadband, and next-generation technologies and services for both public and enterprise networks. Nominated service providers or enterprise organizations must have put their services into commercial operations during 2006. Vendors or suppliers nominated for new technologies must have announced their products no earlier than September 1, 2006, and have them available for sale no later than July 1, 2007. NXTcomm will bring together top executives from every segment of the global industry to exhibit, explore new business opportunities and buy the latest technologies driving the converged communications and entertainment industry. Showcasing hundreds of new and innovative products, the NXTcomm exhibit floor will reflect the dramatic changes in the industry. The show will also feature a broad range of educational programming. NXTcomm, the new industry venue co-owned by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the United States Telecom Association (USTelecom) that will feature the business and technology of communications, information and entertainment, comes to Chicago's McCormick Place June 18-21, 2007. NXTcomm will unite the premier information and communications technology (ICT) industry supplier and technology companies with the world's leading communications and entertainment companies that are together driving broadband-based innovation around the world. For more information, go to http://www.NXTcommShow.com/. |