DALLAS, TX – October 21, 2014 – Today, the organizers of LTE North America announced the shortlist for the prestigious LTE North America Awards, which celebrate the triumphs and innovations of the regional LTE market. Taking place on November 19 during the LTE North America conference and exhibition, the 5th annual LTE North America Awards will bring together the key decision makers responsible for driving LTE in the region.

The illustrious awards have been judged by a panel of independent and highly revered senior analysts with a wealth of knowledge on the North American LTE market.

The judging panel this year includes Sue Rudd, Director Service Provider Analysis, Strategy Analytics; Monica Paolini, President, Senza Fili Consulting; Alan Quayle, Owner, Alan Quayle Business & Service Development; Karim Taga, Managing Partner,  Arthur D. Little; Stephane Teral, Principal Analyst Mobile Infrastructure and Carrier Economics; Infonetics Research Inc., Jennifer Pigg, Vice President Research, Yankee Group; Peter Jarich, VP,  Current Analysis; and Rupert Baines, Chief Marketing Officer,  Real Wireless.

The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at the InterContinental Hotel, Dallas on November 19. Congratulations go to the shortlisted companies below.

Best Test/Measurement LTE Product

· Accedian Networks -  V-NID QoS Monitoring Platform

· Avassi - Avassi Q-VUE

· PRISMA Engineering – UeSIM

· Keynote SIGOS - SITE Test System and GlobalRoamer

· Ixia – Virtyualisation

Best LTE Backhaul Solution

· Fujitsu - GX4000 E-Band Impulse Radio Backhaul Solution

· AOptix – Intellimax

· SevOne Inc. - SevOne

· GENBAND - QUANTiX™ Wireless Access Gateway (WAG)

· SOLiD - Infinity Access

Best LTE Core Network Product

· CradlePoint - CradlePoint AER 2100

· Avvasi Inc. - Q-SRV

· Astellia – Nova

· Airvana – OneCell

Best Traffic Management Product

·  Avassi - Q-SRV

·  Oracle - Oracle Communications Policy Charging

·  Allot Communications - Service Gateway SigmaE/Tera

Most innovative Application / Service

· Ericsson - Ericsson Connected Vehicle Cloud

·  ON Telecom - TD-LTE Network Service

·  SpiderCloud Wireless - Pre-Sales App - E-RAN Estimator App

·  SpiderCloud Wireless (& Intel) - Intel Edge Cloud NFV with SpiderCloud E-RAN

· Cloudlike Inc. – White-label Personal Cloud Storage

Best LTE Roaming Product

· SAP  - SAP IMS 365, a VoLTE/RCS roaming and interconnect solution of SAP IPX 365

· F5 - Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller (SDC)

· iBasis - iBasis LTE Signaling eXchange (LSX)

Innovation in HetNet Development

· SpiderCloud Wireless - SCRN-310: Dual-band 3G/4G and Dual-band 4G Radio Node

· Radisys – Integrated SON Solution

NFV Innovation of the Year

· Ericsson - Cloud Manager for NFV resources

· Sonus Networks - Virtualized Diameter Signaling Controller (DSC SWe)

· ConteXtream – ContexNet

For further information on the LTE North America Awards please visit: http://northamerica.lteawards.com/. The LTE North America Awards are hosted by LTE North America, the region’s only dedicated LTE focused event. For more information on LTE North America please see the website: http://americas.lteconference.com/ and follow @LTEWorldSeries on Twitter.