Who has the best vendor #brand in #telecoms?

In the February issue of Total Telecom+ we worked with Brand Finance to reveal the most valuable brands in telecoms. Predominantly we were focusing on the telecom operators (the full Telecom 500 is coming soon) but amongst the extra data included was the Top 5 hardware vendor brands.

This research is pretty clear cut, these are the most valuable brands, but are they the best? To get this answer, we need to include other more qualitative factors, reflecting how the industry thinks and feels about brands, and this is the role of Best Brand category at the World Vendor Awards #WVA2012, where the winner is determined by the votes of the industry.

In 2011 Ericsson were triumphant at the awards, beating off stiff competition from the likes of Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Juniper Networks (winner of the Best Brand Campaign category in 2010), and ZTE, and reflecting that you don't need to have the most valuable brand to be the industries Best Brand.

Since then, Ericsson have climbed the rankings from number three to number two most valuable brand, so will this help them win again in 2012, or will the competition be too fierce for them? Only you can determine this, by casting your vote for the Best Brand category for the 2012 World Vendor Awards.

This year 20 great telecom hardware vendor brands are currently in the running, so vote today to help determine who will be on the final shortlist, to be published at the end of April. Those in the running are:

• Alcatel-Lucent
• Amdocs
• Ciena
• Cisco
• Corning
• Ericsson
• Harris
• HP
• Huawei
• Juniper Networks
• Motorola
• NEC
• NetCracker
• Nokia Siemens Networks
• Openwave
• Qualcomm
• Syniverse
• Telcordia
• Tellabs
• ZTE

The Best Brand survey is hosted on Survey Monkey, and you can vote by following this link, or you can go to the homepage of the World Vendor Awards www.worldvendorawards.com and vote there. 

Top Telecom Vendors: Awards Shortlist Published #WVA2012

The shortlist for the World Vendor Awards 2012 is out and includes not only most of the big players, such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, and ZTE, but also a strong showing from smaller players and some more unusual names. One that stands out is Sage who we would recognise for their accounting software, but would not traditionally think of as a telecom vendor.

The list of 44 companies that have made the shortlist is on the website www.worldvendorawards.com plus there is still an opportunity for more companies to join the finalists as the voting has begun in the two industry voted categories: Best Brand and CEO of the Year.

Candidates in the voted categories have been nominated by the industry, World Vendor Awards judges and editors of Total Telecom, so make sure your favourites are in with a chance and VOTE TODAY!

The CEO's in the running are:

• Ben Verwaayen: Alcatel-Lucent
• Charlie Vogt: GENBAND
• Cui Liangjun: ZTE
• Gary Smith: Ciena
• Hannes van Rensburg: Fundamo
• Hans Vestberg: Ericsson
• Jean-Yves Leclerc: Ipanema Technologies
• Jeff Gordon: Syniverse
• Karl Thedéen: Transmode
• Kevin Freij: MYMobileSecurity Ltd
• Mike Frayne: VOSS Solutions
• Mohan Kumar: Plintron Technologies
• Rajeev Suri: Nokia Siemens Networks
• Ren Zhengfei: Huawei
• Thomas R. Stanton: ADTRAN, Inc.
• Vivek Ragavan: Actelis Networks

Whilst the Best Brand contenders are: Alcatel-Lucent, Amdocs, Ciena, Cisco, Corning, Ericsson, Harris, HP, Huawei, Juniper Networks, Motorola, NEC, NetCracker, Nokia Siemens Networks, Openwave, Qualcomm, Syniverse, Telcordia, Tellabs, ZTE.

The shortlist for the two voted categories will be announced after voting closes on the 23 March 2012, so don't miss out, CAST YOUR VOTE

Not easily impressed: #WVA2012 judges

Meet the judges for the 2012 World Vendor Awards. These are the men and women you've got to impress if you hope to win at this years awards, and between them they have a formidable track record in the telecom industry and knowledge second to none.


They include representatives of your customers, telecom operators who buy hardware, software and solutions, and industry commentators including analysts, journalists, and trade associations.

For the 2012 World Vendor Awards we are delighted to be able to welcome some new faces to join the established names, including:

Matthew Finnie, the CTO of Interoute;



Rob Staples, the Partner who is leading development of the Telecoms and Media practice at BearingPoint;

Isabelle Paradis, President of Hot Telecom.

In total this brings to 13 the number of judges for the WVA and without insulting anyone a collective experience of more than 200 years in telecoms...


If you can impress these people, you are indeed worthy of a World Vendor Award!
Meet all the judges at: www.terrapinn.com/2012/worldvendorawards/judges.stm

Enter now - DEADLINE 30 November 2011 www.worldvendorawards.com

Countdown for #vendor excellence

The entry deadline for this years World Vendor Awards is the 30 November 2011, so now is the time to start refining your entries.

2012 will be the third annual World Vendor Awards and we're celebrating with some new categories and a new venue, the fabulous Jumeirah Carlton Tower in Knightsbridge.

A thorough review of the categories has seen eight categories appear that are either new or substantially revised, including Best Cloud Solution, Best Mobile Network Product, The Small Cells Award - you can view them all and download the categories brochure here.

The first entries are already in, but if you want inspiration, you may want to watch the videos from last years awards dinner, or read the Winners magazine to see who won.

World class #vendors to be recognised at #WVA12

Calling all telecom hardware and software companies. Entries for the 2012 World Vendor Awards are now open!

The third annual World Vendor Awards build of the success of 2010 and 2011, recognising excellence and innovation amongst the companies driving forwards the global telecom industry.

For 2012 we have a new look, new venue and most importantly a thoroughly refreshed list of categories, recognising the big issues including cloud, small cells, and revenue assurance.

The World Vendor Awards are a unique proposition, the only awards aimed solely at telecom vendors, recognising their successes and most importantly using the power of Total Telecom to promote this success to a global audience of telecom operators and service providers, the buyers of your equipment and services.

This year we are looking for even more entries, from even more companies, those who think they can do as well or better than Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Comviva, Ciena, and IMIMobile, to name just 5 of last years winners.

Now is the time to get writing, so visit the website www.worldvendorawards.com to view the categories and download the brochure.

And remember, if the successes of telecoms hardware and software companies matter to you, why not talk to us about sponsoring the 2012 awards. You will not only benefit from positioning your company as a leader in the sector, but will benefit from a fantastic marketing campaign that will position your brand to the entire global telecom industry - have a look at last years Winners Brochure to get more of an idea of who has been involved.

Finally, keep up to date with the latest in the vendor community by joining our LinkedIn group, World Class Vendors and if you are Tweeting about the awards, use the hashtag #WVA12

World Vendor Awards Launched

Total Telecom have launched the World Vendor Awards - recognising excellence and innovation amongst telecom hardware and software vendors.

Initial response suggests this could very quickly become as significant as the World CommunicationAwards - which are now in their 11th year - so don't miss out, check out the categories today at www.worldvendorawards.com

Google like it's 1999

Google like it's 1999 - Engadget

This photo on engadget perhaps illustrates why Google has become scary. This is reputedly all the hardware used to run Google in 1999, whilst in a Forbes article last year Scott McNealy of Sun is quoted as saying Google purchased around 15% of all computer servers worldwide in 2006. Ouch!