Best Broadband & Data mapping solution or Initiative

• Federated Wireless Adaptive Network Planner, Federated Wireless
• Fiber IQ™, VCTI
• Wireless 20/20 WiROI™ db Geospatial SaaS Platform, Wireless 2020

Best Converged Solution – Cable & Connectivity

• Calix DOCSIS Provisioning Connector (DPx), Calix
• Comarch Telco Suite, Comarch
• Corning Multifiber Pushlok® Technology, Corning Optical Communications

Best Municipal or Public Connectivity Program

• Montgomery County’s Broadband Services to the Community, Montgomery County, MD
• NextLight® municipal internet service, City of Longmont - NextLight
• Pharr Connect by City of Pharr, TX, City of Pharr, TX
• Washington County Comprehensive Broadband Initiative, Washington County Authority

Enabling Connectivity - Middle Mile award

• Carrier Neutral Internet Exchange Points - Wichita State University, Connected Nation Internet Exchange Points
• FiberLight’s Middle Mile Infrastructure, FiberLight, LLC
• Illinois Century Network (ICN), Fujitsu Network Communications
• Zayo Middle Mile Initiative, Zayo

Excellence in FTTH Deployment

• DOCOMO PACIFIC and Harmonic Bring Fiber Connectivity to Guam, Harmonic
• GFiber Labs’s 20 Gig + Wi-Fi 7, GFiber
• WOW! fiber Internet, WOW! Internet, TV, & Phone
• Ziply Fiber Innovates FTTH in 2023-24: From New Construction Methods to Building America’s Fastest Home Internet, Ziply

Excellence in Urban, Open or Neutral Host Connectivity Deployment

• Corning’s Everon® 5G Enterprise Radio Access Network (ERAN), Corning Optical Communications
• FullStack, RtBrick
• InCoax Access A251 Network Termination Modem, InCoax

Impact Award - Greatest Technical achievement in connecting the unconnected (Individual)

• Joe Hickey, President, PomeGran
• Joe Webster, Chief Broadband Officer, Montgomery County, MD
• Lucas Turpin, Executive Director Digital Extension and Inclusion, Oregon State University

Outstanding Efforts in Driving Broadband Workforce Development

• Broadband Training, The Fiber School
• Corning’s Fiber Broadband Technician (CFBT) course through See the Light®, Corning Optical Communications
• Reetika Dhawan - Chief Executive Officer of Entrepreneurial College & Vice President of Workforce & Healthcare, Arizona Western College
• Vermont Community Broadband Board Workforce Development Plan, Vermont Community Broadband Board

Regional Carrier of the Year (Wireless & Wireline)

• Blue Stream Fiber, Blue Stream Fiber
• Calix SmartLife Managed Services, Tombigbee Fiber
• Midwest Energy & Communications rural fiber internet, Midwest Energy & Communications