Pipeline's 2012 Innovation Awards
“The awards provide me with a unique insight into the technical innovations that address many of the real-world issues we are facing today.”
In the Product Innovation category, Subex and JDSU were neck-and-neck finalists. Subex advanced its award-winning ROCWare Capacity Management solution, and JDSU advanced its Packet Portal solutions
and micro-probe technology. Judges recognized ROCWare's paradigm shifting platform, moving capacity planning, management, and analysis from a deep traffic pattern focus to an end-to-end resource
consumption focus. PacketPortal decentralizes network management from “big-iron” networks probes and enables a fundamental shift in the was networks are managed and even conceived of. The voting
was extremely close, but in the end, JDSU took home the trophy.
Fig.3 - Tim Young, Editor-in-Chief of Pipeline begins the awards presentation
The Technical Innovation category was another close race, with JDSU, Ontology Systems, and Tekelec all in the running as finalists. While Tekelec's Diameter Signalling Router and JDSU's Packet Portal solution received high marks, ultimately Ontology's semantic search platform, Ontology 3, came out on top. Ontology 3 applies patented semantic search technology, and an agile search approach, to replace the prevalent and expensive integration tasks that underpin significant OSS applications and business processes. The real-world transformation project success and significant time reductions realized by Ontology 3 in systems integrations played a major role in garnering Ontology Systems the winning vote.
