AI Innovation

• AirWorks: AirWorks Field Intelligence Solutions
• Pair Team: Arc, AI-Enabled Care Management Platform
• Axiado: Axiado Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU) with Embedded AI Agents
• Foresight: Foresight Predictive Project Delivery Platform
• Rakuten Symphony: Rakuten AI for Telecom
• Pivotal Commware: WaveScape – Predictive AI That Makes mmWave Work in the Real World

Analytics/Automation

• AXON Networks: AXON Networks Operator-as-a-Service
• D8Averse: D8Acapture
• Plume: Plume Haystack
• Netcracker Technology: Netcracker Intelligent Operations Automation
• Spectrum Effect: Spectrum-NET

Broadband Workforce Development

• Calix: Success Education - Broadband Workforce Transformation
• The Fiber School: Broadband Training - The Fiber School
• Fiber Broadband Association: Fiber Broadband Association

BSS/OSS Innovation

• Granite Telecommunications, LLC: Granite360
• Kansys: Kansys Edge
• Rakuten Symphony: Rakuten Symphony OSS
• Altice Labs: NOSSIS One - OSS Suite powered by Agentic AI
• Netcracker Technology: Netcracker Digital Platform

Business Services Innovation

• AT&T Business: AT&T Business Voice
• TransUnion: TransUnion Branded Call Display
• MetTel: MetTel’s POTS Transformation (Plain Old Telephone Service) for the United States Postal Service
• Singtel: Singtel CUBΣ
• LoopUp: LoopUp

Carrier of the Year

• GFiber: GFiber Internet
• Visible by Verizon: Visible+ Pro
• Fidium: Fidium Wholesale

Cloud Data Center Innovation

• Rakuten Symphony: Rakuten Cloud
• Ciena: Data Center out-of-band management (DCOM) solution

Cloud Networking (Public, Private or Hybrid) Innovation

• Castanet 5G LLC: Castanet 5G Broadcast Internet
• AT&T Business: AT&T NetBond® Advanced
• Alkira: Alkira Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service
• Alianza: Intelligent Communications Fabric
• Ciena: Wave Logic 6 Extreme (WL6e) coherent transceiver

Customer Engagement Innovation

• AT&T Business: AT&T NetBond® Advanced
• CSG: CSG Quote & Order
• Bango: The Digital Vending Machine® from Bango
• SoftAtHome: Orchestr'ON
• Netcracker Technology: Netcracker Intelligent Customer Experience

Digital Divide Impact

• Tarana Wireless, Inc.: Tarana G1 & DigitalC
• Ribbon Communications: Ribbon Communications’ Apollo Optical Transport Solution for North Georgia Network Cooperative Inc. (NGN)
• Cisco: Cisco’s Country Digital Acceleration (CDA)
• Trustonic Limited: Telecoms Platform
• Render Networks: Render Networks
• CommScope: Prodigy solution

IoT Innovation

• Morse Micro: Morse Micro Wi-Fi HaLow Platform – Powered by the MM8108 SoC and HaLow Link Router
• EPIC iO Technologies, Inc.: EPIC iO AI+IoT+Wireless Connectivity Solutions
• BrainChip: Brainchip Akida™ Processor
• Singtel: Singtel Multi-Domestic Connectivity
• Energous: Energous Battery-Free e-Sense Tag

Municipal/Public Connectivity Program

• Calix: City of Pharr Municipal Broadband
• Kinetic: High-speed Wi-Fi connectivity for Gatton Park, a vibrant new park and cultural hub in the heart of Lexington, Kentucky
• Synamedia: Synamedia Gravity
• Wilson Connectivity: Public Safety DAS

Network Security Innovation

• AT&T Business: AT&T Dynamic Defense®
• Orange Business: Orange Quantum Defender
• Aeris: Aeris IoT Watchtower
• Singtel: Singtel Quantum-Safe Network
• Cisco: Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection
• insidepacket inc: AI based NaaS Platform

Network Test and Measurement

• Pivotal Commware: Cyclops™ - Visual Intelligence for 5G mmWave Site Surveys
• RADCOM: RADCOM Predictive Complaint Resolution Solution
• EXFO: FTB Lite OTDR Series
• Aviz Networks: Aviz Deep Network Observability

Next-Gen Deployment Fiber/Wireline

• Altice Labs: OLT2T3 HyperFlex PON
• Boingo Wireless: Boingo Fiber
• Netcracker Technology: Netcracker Fiber Cloud Solution
• VETRO: VETRO Mobile
• RtBrick: RtBrick’s Multiservice Edge Routing Software Achieves High-Speed Fiber Broadband for Citynet

Rural Broadband Deployment

• Tarana Wireless: Tarana G1 & SPITwSPOTS
• Meridian Management Inc.: Meridian Management, Inc.
• Fidium: Fidium Fiber Rural Broadband Expansion – Greater East Grand Region, Maine
• FiberLight, LLC: FiberLight 10 Gbps Fiber Optic Network for Region 16 ESC
• HFCL Ltd: HFCL’s BharatNet Rural Broadband Deployment for Digital India

Sustainability Achievement

• Amdocs: Amdocs Energy Efficiency Solution
• Efficient Computer: Electron E1 Processor
• Cisco: Cisco Smart Switches
• Energous: Energous PowerBridge® Transmitters

Top Changemaker

• Jenna Wandres, Director of Enterprise PMO at GFiber
• Matt Marino, CEO, Ezee Fiber
• Jenifer Robertson: EVP & GM - Mass Markets, AT&T
• Christos Karmis, Chief Executive Officer, US, Boldyn Networks
• Gregory Gundelfinger, Founder and CEO, Telna Inc.
• Woojune Kim, President & GM, Global Head of Networks Business, Samsung Networks

Wireless Innovation - CORE

• Cisco: Cisco Programmable Core
• Singtel: Singtel 5G Network Slicing for Enterprises

Wireless Innovation – Fixed Wireless

• GeoLinks: GeoLinks LMDS Licensed Spectrum
• Pivotal Commware: WaveScape – Modeling mmWave Fixed Wireless with Unmatched Precision
• Inseego Wireless, Inc.: Inseego Wavemaker FX4200
• Tarana Wireless, Inc.: Tarana G2
• Rakuten Symphony: Rakuten Site Management 2.0

Wireless Innovation - Mobile Evolution

• Helium Mobile: VSC for Helium
• Cohere Technologies: Cohere Technologies’ Pulsone™ Technology, powered by Zak-OTFS, for Multi-G 6G, Integrated Sensing and Communications, and NTN Applications

Wireless Innovation - Private Wireless Networks

• Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions: Ericsson Private 5G
• Globalstar: Globalstar XCOM RAN
• Celona: Celona AerFlex

Wireless Innovation – RAN

• Amdocs: Amdocs Cognitive RAN Automation Solution
• Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.: Qualcomm Dragonwing™ X100 Accelerator Card for O-RAN Virtualized Distributed Units
• Wind River: Wind River Cloud Platform
• Tiami Networks: PolyRAN
• Samsung Networks: Samsung virtualized RAN (vRAN)