Fierce Network announces the 2024 Fierce Network Innovation Awards winners

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 [email protected].