Best of Show Awards - 2008

Congratulations to the following AdvancedTCA Summit 2008 Best of Show Awards winners!

	Best Hardware Product RadiSys Promentum® ATCA - 9100 Media Processing Blade
	Best Software Product VirtualLogix VLX vHA 1.1 Carrier Grade Virtualization
	Best Infrastructure Product Nortel VSE Second Generation ATCA Platform
	Best Unique Customer Application Nortel AdvancedTCA ALL-IP MSC Server

AdvancedTCA Summit 2008 - Best of Show Awards Contest

The AdvancedTCA Summit hereby announces the 2nd annual Awards contest to be held at the 4th annual AdvancedTCA Summit. This is the premier opportunity for industry recognition for the innovation of your company’s technology and how it is being used in the marketplace.

The contest is open to all AdvancedTCA Summit participants and attendees at no charge. Entries will be judged by a panel of experts, whose decision is final. Winners will be announced, and trophies awarded, at a ceremony during AdvancedTCA Summit on Wednesday, October 22nd, from 5:30 to 6 pm. A photographer will be present to take pictures of the winners.

Award Categories

Best Hardware Product
Includes boards, development systems, test equipment, computers, and similar products.
Describe under the required criteria why your product stands out and is used in an AdvancedTCA or MicroTCA hardware solution.

Best Software Product
Includes operating systems, development tools, applications packages, utilities, and similar software.

Best Infrastructure Product
Includes chassis, enclosures, connectors, cabling, power supplies, brackets, and similar products.
Describe how a product is used within the network infrastructure, perhaps a device like a DLC, router, DSLAM, Media Gateway, etc. The three required criteria description would be where one would describe how their product stands out among all of the vendor applications especially how it is used within an AdvancedTCA or MicroTCA solution.

Best Unique Customer Application
Includes chassis, enclosures, connectors, cabling, power supplies, brackets, and similar products.
Hardware or software used in a unique way to support a customer requirement. So if you have a customer application say like with Verizon that is using an AdvancedTCA or uTCA platform solution that you believe to be quite unique then this award category would be the place for that kind of situation.