Small Cell Forum (SCF) announced the winners of the SCF Small Cell Awards 2021, recognizing outstanding achievement within, and contributions to, the global small cell industry. The awards were presented at a ceremony during the virtual Small Cells World Summit last Thursday.
Open to the whole industry and judged independently of SCF by a panel of analysts, journalists and industry experts, the awards attracted entries from operators and vendors from across the world and the full spectrum of the mobile value chain.
Chair of Judges, and Co-founder of Rethink Research, Caroline Gabriel, said: “The standard of entries was higher than ever this year, and the judges were particularly impressed by the wide range of technologies and business models that were represented. The finalists and winners reflect how the small cell market is maturing to enable a wide diversity of operators, suppliers and innovative services.”
The full list of award winners is:
Excellence in commercial deployment by a Mobile Network Operator:
Airspan Networks & Qualcomm – The world’s biggest mmWave Open RAN small cell network powered by Airspan and Qualcomm
Commercial Small Cell (Network) Products & Technology:
Corning & Qualcomm – Indoor 5G mmWave – Pandemic Adventures
Software and Services – Management, Orchestration and Automation:
Dense Air Limited – DenseWare, a Dense Air Application
Innovation in Emerging Technology or Architecture:
InterDigital – InterDigital’s AdvantEDGE Open Edge Emulation Platform for small cells
Outstanding Innovation in Chips or Components to Enable Small Cell Network:
Picocom – Picocom eases Open RAN small cell deployment with 5G NIC board
Outstanding Innovation in Small Cell Business Case:
Druid Software & Geoverse – ”City of Tucson moves to deploy Neutral Host for enabling a Smart City & closing the digital divide”
Commercial Product or Service to Enable Multi-operator and Neutral Host Business Models:
CommScope – CommScope neutral host small cell solution with ONECELL
Outstanding Contribution to Small Cell Open RAN Platforms or Standards:
Radisys – Radisys’ 5G small cell software with FAPI support
Social Impact – Promoting Small Cells for Social/Economic/Environmental Development:
JMA Wireless – Private Network for public services: Model for municipal connectivity services and closing the digital divide – City of Tucson, Arizona
Special Awards
Judges’ Choice:
Mavenir – For their significant impact in many areas of Open RAN and small cells
Chair’s Awards:
Victor Torres, arQana Technologies
Individual contribution to SCF activities:
Andrei Radulescu, Qualcomm
“In addition to congratulating all of this year’s winners, I am delighted to give Victor Torres the Chair’s Awards. Representing a new member company to the Forum this year, Victor has demonstrated vision and leadership, not only for his company, but also for the Forum,” said Prabhakar Chitrapu, Chair of Small Cell Forum. “Meanwhile, Andrei’s technical depth of knowledge, his extremely methodic and disciplined organization of the highly detailed specification work across the entire team, as well as his inclusive and yet persuasive documentation of the agreed results led to a well-planned and perfectly timed production of the 5G-FAPI specification. It is only right that he be recognized for his contribution.”
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