2015 Visionary Spotlight Awards

Beka Publishing and ChannelVision magazine have announced the winners of the 2015 Visionary Spotlight Awards.

The inaugural Visionary Spotlight Awards competition has been created to honor outstanding products, services and deployments across a variety of communications technology categories.

The nominations were judged based on a stringent set of evaluation criteria, highlighting overall innovation, as well as future industry impact of the nominated product or service; creativity and feature set differentiation; and ease of use and interoperability.

Honorees were recognized with an official media introduction, including a magazine feature in the January/February issue of ChannelVision Magazine and a series of online spotlights.

The 2015 Winners

Overall Excellence Awards

Global Services Distributor of the Year: WTG

Channel Deployment of the Year: BullsEye

Channel Program of the Year: Star2Star

Enterprise Awards

Managed Services: NITEL

Mobility: Broadview

Unified Communications: ANPI

VoIP: CallTower

Data, Ethernet and Converged Services: SONIC

Cloud Services: Tech Data

Conferencing: BCN Solutions Express

HD Voice and Video: Broadview

Software as a Service (SaaS): Telarix

Enterprise Deployment for Data, Ethernet and Converged Infrastructure: BCN Solutions Express

Service Provider Awards

Back Office: Telispire

Rural Deployments: ANPI

Data Centers: Metaswitch

Mobile Services: Metaswitch

Telecom Law & Regulatory: Ben Bronston

Over the Top (OTT) Services: Bulletin

“We have created the Visionary Spotlight Awards program to highlight the rapid pace of evolution within the communications industry, to give innovators and industry visionaries the opportunity to gain the exposure and recognition that they deserve,” said Berge Kaprelian, president of Beka Publishing. “We are seeing breathtaking changes in both business models and the technology itself. Our team of respected industry veterans has deep experience in both channel/enterprise technology as well as the service provider arena, and I’m looking forward to seeing them bring their critical, independent evaluations to bear in uncovering the most meaningful deployments and product/service design and engineering across our industry today.”

The Visionary Spotlight Awards program is open to all companies.