Light Reading's Leading Lights 2017 Finalists Announced

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Apr 19, 2017) - Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the market-leading online community for the global communications sector, has announced the finalists for this year's Leading Lights Awards.

Now in its 13th year, the Leading Lights recognizes the industry's top companies and their executives for their outstanding achievements in next-generation communications technology, applications, services, strategies and innovations.

Hundreds of high-quality entries were submitted for this year's awards, which included four new categories and two Women in Comms categories. Click on each of the category links below to find out who made this year's shortlists:

• Most Innovative New Cable Product or Service
• Most Innovative Video/Multimedia Product or Service
• Most Innovative Mobile/Wireless Product or Service
• Most Innovative Telecoms Product or Service (Fixed/Carrier Ethernet/Optical)
• Most Innovative Enterprise/SMB Service
• Most Innovative Cloud Service
• Most Innovative NFV Deployment Strategy (Network/Data Center Operator)
• Most Innovative NFV Product Strategy (Vendor)
• Most Innovative SDN/SD-WAN Deployment Strategy (Network/Data Center Operator)
• Most Innovative SDN/SD-WAN Product Strategy (Vendor)
• Most Innovative Security Strategy
• Most Innovative Gigabit/Ultra-Broadband Service
• Most Innovative IoT/M2M Strategy (Service Provider)
• Most Innovative IoT/M2M Strategy (Vendor)
• Most Innovative 5G Technology Strategy (Vendor) NEW**
• Most Innovative 5G Services Strategy (Service Provider) NEW**
• Outstanding Components Vendor
• Outstanding Test & Measurement Vendor
• Outstanding Digital Enablement Vendor NEW**
• Outstanding Communications Technology Vision NEW**
• Company of the Year (Private)
• Company of the Year (Public)
• Best Deal Maker
• Most Inspiring Woman in Comms Women in Comms award
• Hedy Lamarr Award for Female Tech Pioneer of the Year Women in Comms award

For further details about this year's shortlists, and to check out some of the awards dinner scenes from the 2016 program, read this article on Light Reading: Leading Lights 2017: The Finalists. 

The 2017 Leading Lights Awards winners and the latest inductees to the Light Reading Hall of Fame will be announced at a fun-filled and champagne-fueled awards dinner in Austin, Texas, on May 15 at Brazos Hall the evening before the Big Communications Event (http://www.bigcommunicationsevent.com), which this year includes keynote addresses by top executives from Accenture, AT&T, CenturyLink, Cisco, Facebook, Intel, Verizon and more. 

For complete event information and how to book your seat or table, visit this link.

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About Light Reading

Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) combines its research-led online communities and targeted events portfolio to help those in the global communications industry make informed decisions. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for telecom analysis for more than 400,000 subscribers each month, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content and reputation. Light Reading produces targeted communications events and focused one-day conferences each year for cable, mobile and wireline executives across five continents.