FTTH Innovation Awards

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, the FTTH Council Europe is launching a new set of awards to recognise exhibiting sponsors at FTTH Conference 2024.

 

The FTTH Innovation Awards are a new set of awards which recognise the most innovative FTTH technology product solutions that support the FTTH Council Europe's key objectives, namely: accelerating fibre roll-out, reducing cost and making roll-out more efficient, promoting sustainable technologies, providing originality and enhanced user experience, encouraging greater take up of fibre optic services, saving maintenance costs.

Join us for the FTTH Innovation Awards which will be presented to winning finalists at 13.45-14.10 on Thursday 21st March 2024 in the plenary Conference Room 1.


SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED

Having received 55 entries from 42 companies, we are delighted to announce the shortlist finalists as follows: 
 

PASSIVE INFRASTRUCTURE 

BendBright 180 µm optical fibre by Prysmian Group 

FiberTwist Bracket-2-DIY by Genexis 

Corning® MiniXtend® Ribbon cable - Flow by Corning Optical Communications 

 

ACTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE – CENTRAL NETWORK

Adtran SDX 6324 by Adtran 

Genexis TrueTalk (PON autosensing software) by Genexis 

Iskratel Lumia T6 by Kontron, d.o.o 

 

ACTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE – HOME NETWORK

Adtran SDG 8600 and 8700 Series with Intellifi® managed Wi-Fi by Adtran 

IOWRT SDK 7.3 by Genexis 

FRITZ!Box 5690 Pro by AVM GmbH 

 

PLANNING, WORKFLOW, MAPPING/GIS, AI SOFTWARE

Network Manager Telecom by IQGeo 

Trimble MX50 Mobile Mapping system by Trimble 

Cyclomedia Mobile Mapping (360° Cycloramas and LiDAR) by Cyclomedia 

 

INSTALLATION EQUIPMENT, TOOLS, TEST & MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS

E-sidecut by Marais Group 

View 8X - AI-Driven, IoT-Connected, GPS-Enabled Fusion Splicer by INNO Instrument

Ludoptic by Omelcom 


Who will win?

Join us at 13.45-14.10 on Thursday 21st March 2024 in plenary Conference Room 1 

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Shortlisted companies and winners selection

Shortlisted companies and winners selection

The judging panel will be made up of experts from the world of FTTH, including FTTH Council Europe Board Members, Committee Chairs and Conference and Workshop Speakers at the FTTH Conference 2024. 

There will be two rounds of voting

  1. By 15 December 2023, FTTH Council Europe Board Members and Committee Chairs will shortlist the final three products/services in each category.  Shortlisted companies will be announced publicly before 19th of January 2024

  2. By 24 February 2024, the Conference and Workshop speakers will then be invited to vote for the winner of each category (3 weeks before the Conference 2024, to allow any senior representatives time to book travel to enable them to collect their award at the conference. 

How
does it
work?

THE FIVE CATEGORIES 

  1. Passive Infrastructure  

  2. Active infrastructure – Central network 

  3. Active infrastructure – Home network e.g. customer premise equipment and wi-fi 

  4. Planning, workflow, mapping/GIS, AI software 

  5. Installation Equipment, Tools, Test & Measurement Instruments  

CRITERIA FOR ENTRY

  1. The awards are free to enter for FTTH Conference 2024 Exhibitors  

  2. Product/service entries must be FTTH related 

  3. Each company can enter more than one category but no more than one product per category   

  4. Only one overall entry (with one or multiple categories) is allowed per company  

  5. Entries must be submitted in English  

  6. The judges' decision is final and if there is no worthy or appropriate winner of a category, FTTH Council Europe reserves the right to not name a winner 

  7. The product/service entered for each category must have been launched/taken to market recently and must be commercially available in 2024   

  8. The product/service entered should support FTTH Council Europe objectives e.g. 

    1. The product should save cost and/or time in deployment   

    2. Support more efficient FTTH roll-out  

    3. Provide enhanced user experience   

    4. Provide originality  

    5. Save cost of maintenance   

    6. Improve FTTH performance  

    7. Offer sustainable solutions 

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A new way to discover the latest FTTH technology advancements

A new way to discover the latest FTTH technology advancements

The FTTH Innovation Awards complement our existing FTTH Awards and recognise the most innovative FTTH products and solutions that are shaping Europe’s digital future and contributing to FTTH Council Europe objectives. 

How to find shortlisted exhibitors

How to find shortlisted exhibitors

Shortlisted companies will receive exposure through press releases and other promotional materials and may also feature special flag banners in front of their exhibition stand to advertise themselves as shortlisted for one of the five FTTH Innovation Awards. FTTH Council Europe will also produce "Shortlisted for FTTH Innovation Awards" stickers to be applied to products on exhibition stands.

 

 

Nominations
and judging
timings 

Thursday 21st September 2023 

NOMINATIONS OPEN

 

Friday 17th November 2023 

NOMINATIONS CLOSE

 

Monday 20th November 2023

1st Round of judging: Board Members and Committee Chairs of the FTTH Council Europe shortlist down to final three in each category

 

By 19th January 2024 

Shortlisted Products listed on FTTH Conference 2024 website

 

Monday 26th February 2024

2nd and final round of judging by Conference and Workshop Speakers

 

Tuesday 27th February 2024

Confidential confirmation to category winners 

 

Thursday 21st March 2024 

Results of awards announced

Marcus Benson
Conference & Membership Director

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