Celebrating Telecoms Excellence
The 5th annual Network X Awards has concluded, and we're thrilled to announce the winners who have demonstrated exceptional innovation, leadership, and commitment to advancing the telecommunications industry. This year's competition saw a record number of entries from leading telcos and technology providers worldwide.
The Network X Awards reception, held on Tuesday 14th October 2026, at the iconic MAK - Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, was a night of celebration and recognition. The winners were honoured across 22 categories, showcasing the best of the best in the industry.
From the MAK: A Night of Excellence to Remember!
What an unforgettable evening in such a stunning setting. From inspiring conversations to well-deserved wins, every moment was a reminder of just how innovative and dedicated this community truly is.
Hit play on the video to relive the magic from Vienna.
Award Winners - Solution Providers
Best All-Round Optical Transport Vendor
Ciena: Optical Innovations Enabling "Scale Across" AI Architectures
Leading Data Centre Networks Solution
Ciena: Data Center Out-of-Band Management Solution
Most Innovative Optical Transport Use Case
Ciena: RLS Hyper-Rail
Most Innovative IP Transport Solution
ZTE Corporation: ZTE & China Telecom Guangdong Digital Twin-Based High-Fidelity Distributed Simulation Platform
Best RAN Performance Optimisation Solution
Ericsson: Ericsson and Bharti Airtel Automated RAN Compute Deep Sleep Optimization for Carbon-Neutral 5G Networks
Cloud‑Native Network Solution of the Year
Wind River: Wind River Cloud Platform
Best FWA Solution of the Year
MediaTek: MediaTek T930 & Filogic 8800: The Integrated 5G-Advanced Symmetrical & Wi-Fi 8 Edge-AI FWA Platform
Best Indoor Connectivity Solution
Freshwave: 5G on Omni
Best Innovation in Network as a Service & APIs
SingVerify: by Singtel
Outstanding Use of AI for Broadband Network Diagnostics
Nokia: Extended Altiplano Access Controller with Digital Twin
Most Innovative Enterprise or Smart City PON Use Case
Huawei: AI-FTTO Intelligent All-in-One Security Device
Outstanding FTTH Service
ZTE Corporation: Application of 50G PON Coexistence Solution for Smooth Evolution of Legacy FTTH Networks
Outstanding Multi-Gigabit Fibre Access Innovation
Nokia: All-in-one PON Line Card: De-Risking the Multi-Gigabit Evolution
Leading In-Home Wi-Fi Service
Huawei: AI-FTTR
Most Innovative Smart Home Experience
SoftAtHome: Local Agentic AI in the Home Gateway
Best AI Security on Home Router
ZTE Corporation: NetSense AI - Intelligent Wi-Fi Security & Privacy
Leading Core Network Solution
Huawei: Huawei AgenticCore solution for Next Generation Core Network
Award Winners - Operator Categories
Outstanding Optical Transport Telco
Turk Telekom: Hubble Projector: Unified Multi-Domain Optical Transport Sensing & Proactive Quality Assurance
Autonomous Network Leadership Award
stc: AI-Powered Autonomous IP Transport Network
Best Smart Home Customer Experience
Bahrain Network (BNET): FTTR‑Powered Smart Home Experience
Most Innovative 5G Communication Service
SK Telecom: AI-RAN-powered Autonomous Vehicle Marshalling (AVM)
AI-Native Infrastructure Innovation Award
stc & Huawei: Dual-Engine-Based Autonomous-Network-Driven Hyper-Converged Media Plane Enabling Cloud-Native to AI-Native Telco
