Beka Business Media and ChannelVision Magazine have announced the winners of the 2016 Visionary Spotlight Awards.
The Visionary Spotlight Awards competition was created to honor outstanding products, services and deployments across a broad range of communications technology categories. The winners of the 2016 Visionary Spotlight Awards exemplify this goal, showcasing the communications industry’s overall innovation, capacity for future-thinking execution, and creativity and feature set differentiation; and offering channel partners a cornucopia of opportunities to boost their roles as trusted providers and business success.
The caliber of the nominations was so high that in some categories there was more than one winner.
“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 Business Media. “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.”
All of the winners will be celebrated in a special feature section in the upcoming March/April issue of ChannelVision Magazine.
This year’s winners were:
Overall Excellence Awards: Channel Deployment of the Year
Overall Excellence Awards: Channel Program of the Year
Winners: AT&T, MASS Communications, Telarus
Enterprise Technology, Broadband and Capacity
Winner: XO Communications
OTT and Online/Cloud Content and Services
Winner: ANPI
Rural & Underserved Markets
Winner: Telispire
Service Provider Mobile
Winner: Metaswitch
Video Communications
Winner: Transbeam
Back Office and OSS Innovation
Winner: Kadence
Back Office and OSS Innovation
Winner: CSF
Best Portal Technology
Winner: Impartner
UC & VoIP – Best Channel Deployment
Winner: AireSpring
UC & VoIP – Best Channel Deployment
Winner: NetCarrier
Data, Ethernet and Converged Infrastructure – Best Channel Deployment
Winner: Transbeam
UC & VoIP – Best Enabling Technology
Winner: VoIP Innovations
Cloud Communications – Best Enabling Technology
Winner: Tech Data
Data, Ethernet, Converged Infrastructure – Best Enabling Technology
Winner: TelePacific
Enterprise Mobility – Best Enabling Technology
Winner: DataXoom
HD Voice & Video – Best Enabling Technology
Winner: Broadview
Managed Services – Best Enabling Technology
Winner: ENQWEST
Telecom Regulatory/Legal
Winner: Ben Bronston
Should you have questions regarding the 2016 Visionary Spotlight Awards, please contact Berge Kaprelian at berge@bekapublishing.com. The 2016 Innovation Awards program was open to all companies. Products and services entered were required to have been commercially available as of Dec. 31, 2015.
