Newport Networks Wins InfoVision Award For Network Core Innovation And Advances

Published 17th May 2006

Hong Kong, 17th May, 2006.
Newport Networks, a leading developer of carrier-class Session Border Controllers, today announced that its 1460 session border controller has won the International Engineering Consortium's (IEC) InfoVision Award for Network Core Innovation and Advances. The InfoVision Award program recognises technologies, applications, products, advances, and services judged to be the most unique and beneficial to the telecommunications industry. InfoVision Awards also honour corporations and individuals for their innovative contributions and developments that have proven important to society.

The InfoVision review committee, composed of industry experts from vendor companies, service providers, and industry associations, judged Newport's 1460 session border controller against a broad range of criteria. These included the value of the technology in solving recognised technology problems, such as security of multimedia networks, and maintaining a high quality of service in access networks. The award also recognises the 1460's potential contribution toward positive industry growth by providing class leading scalability capable of meeting the demands of interconnecting today's rapidly expanding multimedia services.

“We are pleased to win this InfoVision award in such a highly competitive arena.” Commented Mike Wilkinson, Vice President of Marketing at Newport Networks. “The award recognises the vision of the company in designing a product which delivers consistent high quality service and security features on a scale needed by VoIP and multimedia service providers.”

Michael Li, Newport Networks' Vice President for the Asia Pacific region, was presented with the InfoVision Award at the Broadband World Forum Asia.