Alcatel-Lucent was a double winner today as NXTcomm announced its 2008 Eos Awards, honoring companies for the best new technologies or enterprise solutions in 12 categories of wireless, broadband and next-generation technologies for public and enterprise networks.

Alcatel-Lucent won Eos awards for Technology Innovation in the Backbone Edge for its FP2 IP Routing & Traffic Management Silicon and won as well for Specialized Technology Achievement in Strategic Support/Solution for its IMS Consumer VoIP Solution.

Other winners included: Broadsoft, Calix, Fiber Tower, Hatteras Networks, Infinera, RGB Networks, Ruckus Wireless, and uControl.

“Our exhibitors continue to raise the bar in innovation as exemplified by this year's competition,” said Wayne Crawford, NXTcomm Executive Director, in a prepared statement. “This year's Eos winners and runners-up demonstrate the best and most promising advancements to the network-enabled voice, video and data ecosystem.”

The following list of winners and finalists was chosen by a judging panel of 15 consultants, technical journalists and service providers:

Categories (Network Services and Design):

Wireless/Mobile/Network Services (Includes WiMAX, mobile telephony, mobile date, mobile IP, public and private wireless LANs, Wi-Fi services, 3G networks, mobile television and 3G services and applications, among others):

WINNER: Fiber Tower Corp. for Ethernet wireless backhaul service 3G/4G
FINALIST: Virtela for Accelerate WAN Service

Network Infrastructure (Includes designing, building and/or enhancing network LANs, WANs, Ethernet services, converged IP services, IMS, backbone, server systems and others, among others):

WINNER: Calix Networks, Inc. for FiberNet Fiber to the Business
FINALIST: Blue Valley Telecommunications for MPLS and VPLS-based Ethernet network

Categories (Technology Innovation):

Access Networking (Includes, but is not limited to, DSL, cable, wireless, various IP-based technologies and other technologies):

WINNER: Ruckus Wireless for Ruckus Wireless 802.11n SmartMesh system
FINALIST: Zhone Technologies for SkyZhone

Backbone/Edge (Includes, but is not limited to, local-area, backbone, and edge switch-routers; gateways, and load-balancing and other transport layer technologies):

WINNER: Alcatel-Lucent for FP2 IP Routing & Traffic Management Silicon
FINALIST: Juniper Networks Inc. for Juniper Control System 1200

Optical Networking (Includes, but is not limited to, DWDM, Sonet/SDH, optical "switching" and other metro or long-haul transmission technologies):

WINNER: Infinera Corp. for The Infinera ILS2 optical line system
FINALIST: MRV Communication Inc. for OpiSwitch 0S9124-410G

Application Layer Systems (Includes, but is not limited to, DWDM, Sonet/SDH, optical "switching" and other metro or long-haul transmission technologies):

WINNER: BroadSoft, Inc. for BroadSoft Xtended Marketplace
FINALIST: Cisco Systems Inc. for Nexus 7000 series Data Center Class Switches

Content Delivery and Management (Presented to the technology manufacturer or vendor whose product demonstrates outstanding support or innovation in the delivery and/or management of entertainment or specialized content (video, music, images, etc.) technologies):

WINNER: RGB Networks for Modular Video Processor
FINALIST: Tandberg Television Ltd. For iPlex HD and SD transcoder

Wireless/Mobile Technologies and Applications (Includes, but is not limited to, mobile television, video, data, e-mail, messaging, commerce, dual-network systems, IMS, MVNO services and support.):

WINNER: Alcatel-Lucent for Geographic Messaging Service Platform
FINALIST: Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc. for BroadOne WX300 Mobile WiMAX base station

Home Networking Technologies and Applications (Includes, but is not limited to, security, video, audio, data, hardware and software networking, appliance and equipment management):

WINNER: uControl for Home Security, Monitoring and Automation Platform
FINALIST: ZyXEL Communications for ZyXEL V750W SIP-based remote surveillance device

Categories (Specialized Technology Achievement)

Strategic Support/Solution (Presented to the technology manufacturer or vendor who demonstrates outstanding strategic support of a specific customer, such as a telco, wireless carrier, ISP, broadband service provider, etc. Support must be tied to a broad-based technology solution that integrates a range of products and services, advancing the strategic and tactical business aims of a client over an extended period, six months or more as of June 30, 2008, and representing an ongoing
relationship with the customer.):

WINNER: Alcatel-Lucent for IMS Consumer VoIP Solution
FINALIST: Hatteras Networks, Inc. for Mid-Band Ethernet

Ongoing Achievement (Presented to the manufacturer of a networking technology or product that has, over an extended period of 3 years or longer, a proven record of superior performance. Products and technologies nominated in this category must have been put into operation on or before June 30, 2005, and must show continuing excellence in evolving to meet the needs of the changing marketplace.):

WINNER: Hatteras Networks, Inc. for Hatteras Networks' next-generation HN4000
FINALIST: Ciena Corp. for CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform

A 13th award, called the Spotlight Award, will be selected by attending press and analysts and will be given to one of the 12 Eos Award winners. The Spotlight Award winner will be recognized at the invitation-only NXTcomm Exception Reception, Tuesday, June 17, 5:00pm – 6:30pm.