Welcome to the Fierce Innovation Awards - Telecom Edition!
The Fierce Innovation Awards seek to recognize the creators, makers, and doers of outstanding services and equipment unveiled in the past 12 months. Intended to promote the competitive spirit and initiative to spark new design, development and distribution of inventive solutions; find revolutionary tech or services; and to acknowledge and honor the most visionary operators, service providers, and vendors for their commitment to next-gen business and consumer offerings. Winners will be decided amongst the industry's elite including analysts, service providers and more among a myriad of categories.
Submissions are $675 per entry and must be submitted by November 22nd.
2023 Categories include:
AI/Analytics/Automation
Artificial intelligence and other automation software for networks, including database solutions and analytics systems.
Business Services
Solutions and gear for delivering or managing enterprise services. Includes SD-WAN, Ethernet-on-demand, VoIP, contact centers, and unified communications, including video and voice conferencing, speech recognition, e-mail and messaging.
BSS/OSS
Billing and operations support systems, including network management, customer experience management, service assurance, revenue management and other forward-thinking support and enablement.
Core Network
Technology, architecture and solutions that address the core network, routing, automation, big data and AI, network management at the core and open core networking
Customer Engagement
Partner management, Big Data analytics, customer service platforms, portal strategies, user-centric policy engines, self-provisioning, tools for leveraging and benchmarking social and companion apps, and more.
Digital Divide
Technologies, services, partnerships, and projects that are helping to make broadband more accessible and affordable to underserved areas and communities. Includes deployment and technological innovations.
IoT
Solutions and technologies geared toward bringing connectivity to devices and infrastructure. Includes Smart Cities, vehicles, homes, wearables, buildings, and all industrial verticals including healthcare, manufacturing, agriculture, mining, energy, and more.
Network Test and Measurement
Portable or lab-based hardware and software or centralized solutions for testing, management and maintenance of telecommunications networks. Includes security monitoring, troubleshooting, system monitoring and disaster recovery.
Next-Gen Deployment Wireless
Equipment and solutions developed specifically for future generations of wireless, including 5G Advanced and 6G. Specific technologies include Massive MIMO, beamforming, AI integrations, network sensing, spectrum innovations (mmwave and Terahertz), advancements in energy efficiency, developments that support XR, as well as RAN and Core.
Next-Gen Deployment Fiber/Wireline
Advances in broadband architectures for central offices, headends, data centers, backbones or the last mile, including fiber, Docsis 4.0, PON, Ethernet, Packet Optical, and distributed access architecture.
Private Wireless Networks
Hardware and software to deploy private wireless networks, spectrum access system (SAS) technology, and third-party spectrum solutions from carriers or other spectrum owners.
RAN Innovation
Solutions and gear targeted at maximizing efficiency, automating or evolving RAN network technology. Includes Open networking, Network Automation, Predictive Analytics, Congestion Management, 5G evolution, etc.
Security
Software and hardware geared toward securing networks, devices and content.
Benefits of Entering
Application Scoring
Applications will be scored by a panel of judges and the aggregate of the scores will determine finalists and category winners. Applications will be evaluated based on the following criteria: