Singapore, 29 August 2014 - The organisers of LTE Asia have today announced the shortlist for the first LTE Asia Awards 2014. The 9th Annual LTE Asia event serves as the setting for the awards, which will reward key achievements and advances across the LTE ecosystem in Asia. This year's awards have received a high number of entries with eight categories up for grabs!

Taking place at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, Singapore, this luxurious setting will provide a backdrop to the awards ceremony which will bring together the experts responsible for driving LTE forwards in the region over the past year. Considered a mark of industry excellence, the awards are judged by a panel of senior analysts who have a vast amount of knowledge about the Asian LTE market.

This year's judging panel will include Ajay Sunder, Senior Director - Telecom, Frost & Sullivan, Dimitris Mavrakis, Principal Analyst, Ovum, Guang Yang, Senior Analyst - Wireless Operator Strategies, Strategy Analytics and Alan Quayle, Owner, Alan Quayle Business & Service Development.

The awards will be presented during a cocktails reception on the evening of 24 September, the final day of the event itself. The reception is open to all attendees of the LTE Asia conference.

The awards ensure industry recognition for those shortlisted. Congratulations go to this year's shortlisted companies, seen below:

Best Test/Measurement LTE Product

• Anite, Network Testing Division -Nemo CEM Observer
• Gemalto- NxRay
• JDSU- JDSU CellAdvisor™ Base Station Analyzer
• PCTEL- PCTEL's RAN Mobile Testing Suite.
• Polystar- Solver (for VoLTE - SRVCC testing)

Most Significant Development of a Commercial LTE Network (Operators Only)

• Optus- LTE 700 MHz commercial launch
• Singtel- Commercial LTE
• SK Telecom- World's First Commercial 225Mbps LTE-Advanced and Pre-5G trials

Best LTE Core Network Product

• Alcatel-Lucent- 7750 Service Router Mobile Gateway
• Cisco Systems, Inc. - ASR5000 Series
• Dialogic, Inc. - Dialogic® BorderNet™ Diameter Services Helix
• Huawei Technology- Huawei SingleEPC MSE Solution
• Mavenir Systems- Mavenir's Converged Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and Session Border Controller

Best Traffic Management Product

• Ascom Network Testing- TEMSTM Capacity Manager
• Gigamon- GigaVUE-HC2 Multi-Purpose Visibility Fabric Node
• Polystar- Network and Customer Insight Solutions

Best LTE Roaming Product

• Mavenir Systems- Interconnect Session Border Controller I-SBC)
• Polystar- Network and Customer Insight Solutions
• SAP Mobile Services, a division of SAP- SAP IPX 365
• Telstra Corporation- Telstra Internet Package Exchange

Best VoLTE Innovation

• HKT Limited- Voice over LTE Service
• LG Uplus.- LG Uplus.
• Mavenir Systems- Mavenir's Multi-Device, Multi-Access network Service Ubiquity Solution
• Samsung Electronics- Smart VoLTE with InteractiV
• Singtel- VoLTE

Innovation in HetNet Development

• Cisco Systems,Inc- Small Cell Design and Technology Innovation
• Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.- Huawei LampSite Solution
• Samsung Electronics- Samsung Advanced HetNet

NFV Innovation of the Year

• Cisco Systems, Inc- Cisco Quantum Virtualized Packet Core - Orchestrated
• Mavenir Systems- Virtualized RCS based on NFV