30th May: Pre-Conference Day
31 May - 1 June: Main Conference and Exhibition
Awards
MEET THE 2022 WINNERS:
The NGON & DCI Awards give recognition to the achievements made by operators, data centres and solution providers in the optical networking industry.
Best Data Centre Connect Vendor
ZTE
Best New Gamechanger or Innovation
Huawei
Most Innovative Service Provider of the Year
Colt
Optical Vendor of the Year
Ciena
The NGON & DCI World Awards
THE CHAMPIONS OF OPTICAL NETWORKING
Celebrate the achievements and innovations in the optical transport and data centre interconnect industry over the past year
Vendor Award Categories
Select an award category for more information, key judging criteria and a guide to filling out your nomination.
Best Data Centre Connect Vendor
This award recognises the efforts of a company providing particular support and enhancement for data centre connectivity.
Judges' key criteria
- Technology innovation
- Commitment to customers
- Management tools
- Costs & pricing
- Service & support
Nomination information
- Name of company
- What role does the company being nominated play in meeting your customer's need? What benefit do you bring to optical networks?
- Please give a case study/example of your company in action - outline context, customer need, operational game plan, cost savings, future roadmap.
- Convince me in one sentence - why should this nomination win the award?
Optical Vendor of the Year
This award recognises the efforts of an optical transport vendor company going above and beyond to provide all-round integration support and long-term engagement to ensure solution success.
Judges' key criteria
- Technology innovation
- Commitment to customers
- Management tools
- Costs & pricing
- Service & support
- Commitment to the customer
Nomination information
- Name of company
- Please provide a description of the company being nominated in relation to how they support overall customer needs (max 200 words)
- Please provide a short use case of the support that the company being nominated has provided and what support end-to-end has translated into business benefits (max 200 words)
- Convince me - what is the one reason (one sentence) why this nomination should win this award?
Cloud Service Provider of the Year
This award recognises the best cloud service provider - including collaborating with vendors and CSPs in the industry.
Judges' key criteria
- Technology innovation
- Commitment to customers
- Management tools
- Costs & pricing
- Service & support
Nomination information
- Name of company
- Please provide a description of the company being nominated in relation to how they support overall the industry development (max 200 words)
- Please provide a short use case of the support that the company being nominated has provided and what support end-to-end has translated into business benefits (max 200 words)
- Convince me - what is the one reason (one sentence) why this nomination should win this award?
Best New Gamechanger or Innovation
This award recognises a product, solution or application, tried and tested for being ground-breaking in the industry.
Judges' key criteria
- Technology innovation
- Commitment to customers
- Management tools
- Costs & pricing
- Service & support
- Commitment to the customer
Nomination information
- Name of solution/application/production & company
- Please provide a short description of how the subject nominated is 'game-changing' - how is it changing up existing practises/applications, what warrants it to be 'game-changing'?
- What are the next steps/roll out plan?
- Convince me in one sentence - why should this nomination win the award?
Service Provider Award Categories
Select an award category for more information, key judging criteria and a guide to filling out your nomination.
Best Global Optical Service Provider
This award recognizes the carrier that has provided the most effective optical networking.
Judges' key criteria
- Technology innovation
- Commitment to customers
- Pricing
- Service & support
- Management tools
- R&D roadmap
- Costs
Nomination information
- Name of carrier/operator being nominated
- Please provide a short description as to why this carrier/operator has provided the very best optical network (max 200 words)
- Please provide a use case of the carrier and network in operation (max 200 words)
- Convince me - what is the one reason (one sentence) why this nomination should win this award?
Most Innovative Service Provider of the Year
This award recognizes the service provider that has shaken up the industry through innovation, and is making headlines in the right way.
Judges' key criteria
- Innovation
- Long-term viability
- R&D
- Dedication to network transformation
Nomination information
- Name of the carrier/operator being nominated
- Please provide a short description of the ground-breaking steps that this carrier/operator has taken to prepare for long-term change (max 200 words)
- Please provide a short description of how this carrier/operator may be resilient to an anticipated challenge through the steps it has taken (max 200 words)
- Convince me - what is the one reason (one sentence) why this nomination should win this award?
People's Choice Award
This award recognizes an individual that has gone over and beyond in successful endeavours in whatever niche of the optical networks field they work in.
Judges' key criteria
- Commitment to innovation
- Openness to new trends and change
- Working with the value chain
- Long term view and application to day-to-day
Nomination information
- Name of individual, job title and company being nominated
- In your own words, please describe the attributes that have led this individual being successful in their line of work (max 200 words)
- Please describe how the success of this individual has affected the optical networking industry, however small or big it might be (max 200 words)
- Convince me - what is the one reason (one sentence) why this nomination should win this award?
WHY TAKE PART IN THE NGON & DCI WORLD AWARDS?
Recognise your team's success
This is your chance to celebrate the hard work of your team at an event full of optical networking industry professionals.
Raise your company profile
Master your sector – build business awareness through recognition at our awards ceremony.
Celebrate Innovation in Optical Networking and Data Centre Interconnect
The NGON & DCI World Awards celebrate innovation and excellence in the optical space - be apart of an event that acknowledges the entire ecosystem.
