Daniel Preiskel was a judge on the prestigious telecoms industry Global Carrier Awards at Capacity Europe in Amsterdam, dubbed the ‘telecoms Oscars’ in some quarters.
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