Top ICT companies honoured by Frost & Sullivan
F5 Networks, Fortinet, Huawei, AWS, Microsoft and Telstra were among a who's who of technology companies honoured at Frost - Sullivan's 2015 Asia Pacific ICT Awards.
Telstra had triple glory, winning both Telco Cloud Service Provider of the Year and Managed Service Provider of the Year in the Enterprise division, and Fixed Broadband Service Provider of the Year in the Service Provider category.
Both Microsoft and Huawei took two awards, with Huawai named Telecom OSS/BSS Vendor of the Year and Telecom Equipment Vendor of the Year. Microsoft meanwhile scooped the pool for Unified Communications Vendor of the Year and Software-as-a-service Provider of the Year.
AWS was named Infrastructure-as-a-service Provider of the Year, with Fortinet taking home the award for Network Firewall Vendor of the Year.
F5 Networks win for Application Delivery Controller Vendor of the Year marks the seventh consecutive win for the vendor.
Andre Milroy, Frost - Sullivan Asia Pacific senior vice president, ICT, says the awards recognise 'best-in-class' companies which demonstrate excellence in the ICT sector.
"We hope that the recognition will allow ICT firms to continue growing their business and spur further achievements.
Full list of winners:
Enterprise
Application Delivery Controller Vendor of the Year: F5 Networks
Advanced Persistent Threat Solution Vendor of the Year: Fireeye
Network Firewall Vendor of the Year: Fortinet
Intrusion Detection and Prevention System Vendor of the Year: IBM Security
Web Application Firewall Vendor of the Year: Imperva
Enterprise Video Vendor of the Year: Cisco Systems
Hosted Telephony and UC Applications Service Provider of the Year: Orange Business Services
Collaboration Service Provider of the Year: Arkadin
Contact Centre Application Vendor of the Year: Genesys
Contact Centre Outsourcing Service Provider of the Year: Tata Consulting Services
Enterprise Telephony Vendor of the Year: NEC Corporation
Unified Communications Vendor of the Year: Microsoft
Infrastructure-as-a-service Provider of the Year: Amazon Web Services
Software-as-a-service Provider of the Year: Microsoft
Data Center Service Provider of the Year: NTT Communications
Data Communications Service Provider of the Year: Orange Business Services
Telco Cloud Service Provider of the Year: Telstra
Managed Service Provider of the Year: Telstra
Telecom Vendor
Telecom OSS Specialist Vendor of the Year: Comptel
Telecom BSS Specialist Vendor of the Year: Redknee
Telecom OSS/BSS Vendor of the Year: Huawei
Telecom Equipment Vendor of the Year: Huawei
Service Provider
LTE Service Provider of the Year: Singtel
Mobile Service Provider of the Year: PT Telekomunikasi Selular
Mobile Data Service Provider of the Year: Idea Cellular
Most Innovative Telecom Service Provider of the Year: Idea Cellular
Emerging Market Telecom Service Provider of the Year: Smart Axiata Co
Fixed Broadband Service Provider of the Year: Telstra
Best of the Best
Telecom Service Provider of the Year: Bharti Airtel
Telecom Group of the Year: Telenor Group
Telecom CEO of the Year: Suphachai Chearavanont of True Corporation.
