2014 Global Carrier Awards crowns year of wholesale innovation

2014 Global Carrier Awards crowns year of wholesale innovation

Capacity Europe day 2 – New service areas and technologies stole the show at the Global Carrier Awards 2014 ceremony, crowning a year of innovation in the wholesale market.



Over 30 awards were collected by some of the industry’s leading names in front of an audience of 350 during the black tie event.

From cloud through to LTE and SDN, awards were given for a wide range of innovations, highlighting a hugely successful 12 months for the wholesale telecoms market.

Deutsche Telekom BDI emerged as winner of Best technology innovation for its LiveStream platform, which has enabled the multi-source transport of high-definition video content over the public internet.

Picking up Best product innovation was Verizon Global Wholesale with its Verizon Optical Networking Ethernet Aggregation port project, which has successfully met the demands of its carrier Ethernet customers.

Meanwhile, Ascom collected the prize for Best service innovation for its B2BSimpleX platform, and Hutchison Global Communications won the Best cloud innovation award for its ibizCloud platform.

The ever-popular and longstanding Best wholesale carrier category saw two carriers emerge triumphant in the Best global wholesale carrier categories.

Orange collected the prize for Best global wholesale carrier – voice, for launching a number of new innovative voice services in the last 12 months, while NTT Communications collected the prize for Best global wholesale carrier – data, for the investment and rapid expansion of its global Tier-1 network.

Competition was extremely tough in the Project of the year award category this year and so special mention must go to Pacnet for collecting the prize with its SDN-based Network-as-a-Service platform. As a first mover in the SDN space, the judges were particularly impressed by the speed and execution of the project.

Special mention must also go to Marc Halbfinger, CEO at PCCW Global, and Brian Fitzpatrick, CEO at Vodafone Carrier Services, for collecting the Executive of the year award for industry contribution and Executive of the year for leadership, respectively.

Congratulations to all the winners, the full list of which can be found below:

Global Carrier Awards 2014 winners

BEST WHOLESALE CARRIER

Best Eastern European wholesale carrier

Türk Telecom International

Best pan-European wholesale carrier

Interoute

Best African wholesale carrier
Liquid Telecom

Best Middle Eastern wholesale carrier

Etisalat

Best Asian wholesale carrier

Pacnet

Best Caribbean wholesale carrier

Columbus Networks

Best Latin American wholesale carrier

Telefonica Global Solutions

Best North American wholesale carrier

NTT Communications

Best Global wholesale carrier – voice

Orange

Best Global wholesale carrier – data

NTT Communications


DATA CENTRE & CDN

Best data centre

Interxion

Best data centre innovation

Equinix

Best Content Delivery Network
EdgeCast


PARTNERSHIP

Best vendor partnership

Orange/Ooredoo/Bharti Airtel

Best OTT partnership

Telecom Italia Sparkle


PROJECT

Best European project

MegaFon

Best African project
Liquid Telecom

Best Middle Eastern project
Türk Telekom International

Best Asian project
Ooredoo Group

Best North American Project
DE-CIX

Best Latin American project
Telecom Italia Sparkle

Project of the year

Winner: Pacnet

Runner-up: Deutsche Telekom ICSS

 

MARKETING

Best marketing team

Telefonica Global Solutions

Best brand campaign

TeliaSonera International Carrier


INNOVATION

Best technology innovation

Deutsche Telekom BDI

Best service innovation

Ascom

Best product innovation

Verizon Global Wholesale

Best cloud innovation

Hutchison Global Communications 


SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDS 

Best customer testimony

Epsilon

Judges’ Award

TATA Communications

Corporate Social Responsibility

WireIE

Executive of the year – industry contribution

Marc Halbfinger, CEO, PCCW Global

Executive of the year – leadership

Brian Fitzpatrick, CEO, Vodafone Carrier Services


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