Thank you to everyone who entered our Awards. The quality of entries has been overwhelming. It’s been a tough round of judging but we are pleased to announce the shortlists as follows.
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1. Individual contribution to Femto Forum activities (judged by Femto Forum group chairs) |
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Josh Adelson, for his work while at Airvana Mary Carbin, Rakon Fabio Chiussi, Consultant Tom Lismer, Consultant Mehmet Yavuz, Qualcomm |
| 2. Residential femtocell access point design and technology innovation (vendor) |
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Airvana – The world’s first and only IMS-based dual-mode (2.5G + 3G) residential femtocell Picochip – The PC3008 enables the world’s smallest 3G basestation SerComm – Sun Plus series: an OSGi femtocell Integrating mobile phones into the home network media |
| 3. Non-residential (enterprise, public access and other) femtocell access point design and technology innovation (vendor) |
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Alcatel-Lucent – Metro Cells: femtocell technology for increased capacity and coverage in urban and rural environments ip.access – AirHarmony & S8 enterprise femtocell combined NEC – Network Norway deploys Enterprise FemtoSpace, for seamless mobility in large, high-traffic business environments |
| 4. Femtocell network element design and technology innovation (any) |
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Huawei – Huawei Femto LBO ip.access – OysterCatcher™ NEC – NEC multi-access femto gateway |
| 5. Femtocell application: new service or technology (vendor or operator) |
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Alcatel-Lucent – Alcatel-Lucent 9360 small cell/femtocell application API, SDK and SW developers outreach Argela – Femto advertising application NEC – Social femtocells |
| 6. Progress in commercial deployment (vendor or ecosystem) |
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Contela – Work with SK telecom Huawei – China Unicom’s 3G Inn wireless broadband service by Huawei Technologies NEC – NEC’s successful expansion of the world’s largest IMS-based, residential femtocell network |
| 7. Commercial deployment – marketing campaign (operator) |
| Vodafone – Vodafone femto productline – best value proposition build and multi-market rollout |
| 8. Commercial deployment – technical implementation (operator) |
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Network Norway – Network Norway Full Coverage: world’s first self-organising femto network SK telecom, Contela & Picochip – Femtocells for data offloading Vodafone – Vodafone Group best commercial deployment technical implementation |
| 9. Contribution to femtocell standards (individual or company) |
| Nokia Siemens Networks – Contribution to 3GPP Releases 10 and 11 – enhancements to mobility and interference management |
| 10. Enabling technology (components, subsystems, modules etc.) |
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Picochip – The first single device for LTE small cells Rakon – Rakon’s convergence product family for femtocells Texas Instruments |
| 11. Social vision – promoting femtocells for social/ economic/ environmental development (any) |
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ip.access – Lotus/AirHarmony – promoting femtocells for social/ economic/ environmental development NEC – Outdoor small cells for rural & developing communities to bridge the digital divide Tata Elxsi – Femto for Cruise |
| 12. Judges’ choice (open to all; discretionary) |
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AirWalk – AirWalk – Enterprise femtocells Alcatel-Lucent – Wilson Street docu-soap Rakon – Ongoing enablement of femtocell market through provision of oscillators |
