Awards • Parallel Wireless

Awards

Parallel Wireless is honored to be recognized by the industry for our hard work and innovation. Our constant drive to Reimagine Your Network has enabled us to be recognized with numerous award wins and nominations from a variety of reputable organizations.

Winner: Most Innovative Cloud Technology

Parallel Wireless OpenRAN Controller is the winner of the Most Innovative Cloud Technology award.

SHORTLISTED for Digital Transformation Award – Vendor and Best Emerging Market Initiative

Parallel Wireless shortlisted for ‘Best Emerging Market Initiative’ and ‘Digital Transformation Award – Vendor’.

FINALIST Africa 50 Innovation Challenge

The Africa50 Innovation Challenge is an initiative of Africa50, the pan-African infrastructure investment platform.

SHORTLISTED Leading Lights Awards 2020

Parallel Wireless and Comba Telecom for Most Innovative 5G Strategy

WINNER Best Mobile Network Infrastructure

Vodafone, a global operator, Parallel Wireless, an innovative vendor, and TIP have developed and deployed a virtualized, multi-technology OpenRAN solution that disaggregates hardware and software as an alternative to legacy RAN vendors.

WINNER Best Network Software Breakthrough

Parallel Wireless is the world’s first OpenRAN Controller software suite helping manage multi-vendor multi-G networks while delivering lowest TCO to mobile operators globally.

SHORTLISTED Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough

Parallel Wireless and Comba Telecom for 4G and 5G OpenRAN

Aegis Graham Bell Award WINNER – Innovation in Cloud

Parallel Wireless’ 2G/3G/4G/5G OpenRAN Controller and Network software was awarded in the `Innovation in Cloud’ category.

Aegis Graham Bell Award FINALIST – Telecom Infrastructure

Parallel Wireless’ OpenRAN solution was declared a finalist in the `Innovation in Telecom Infrastructure’ category.

WINNER Industry Innovation Award

Parallel Wireless leads with the world’s first ALL G Open RAN solution. By supporting all Gs under the same software umbrella, Parallel Wireless delivers on the promises of interoperability, future-proof, and automation made by the white box movement.

Shortlisted for Connecting the Continent Award

Parallel Wireless’s OpenRAN solution shortlisted for Connecting the Continent Award at AfricaCom 2019.

HIGHLY COMMENDED for Wireless Innovation Award Vendor and Shortlisted for NFV Innovation Award

Parallel Wireless’s OpenRAN solution shortlisted for 2 awards at World Communications 2019.

WINNER The Innovation Award-Vendor

Parallel Wireless ALL G software has been nominated for its work in OpenRAN

Parallel Wireless’s Open RAN is taking a prominent role around the world.

Shortlisted for Most Innovative 5G Trial Award

Parallel Wireless ALL G software has been nominated for its work with 5G RuralFirst

Parallel Wireless’s Open vRAN solution is taking a prominent role in the 5G RuralFirst initiative.

Shortlisted for Best 5G Network Development in Europe Award

Parallel Wireless ALL G software enabled Open RAN provides reliable connectivity in the UK

The 5G Rural First project has been using Parallel Wireless’ unified software platform, providing connectivity with any G among rural communities in the UK.

Shortlisted for Best 5G Core Network Technology Award

Parallel Wireless ALL G software is cost-effective and provides reliable connectivity

By supporting ALL Gs under the same software umbrella, Parallel Wireless delivers on the promises of interoperability, future proofing and automation.

Outstanding contribution to open RAN and core platforms and ecosystems

Parallel Wireless ALL G software enabled Open RAN connects on 6 continents

Parallel Wireless is the only US company mounting a challenge to the world’s legacy vendors with the industry’s only unified 2G/3G/4G/5G software-enabled solution.

Excellence in Commercial Deployment of Rural, Remote, and Temporary Small Cells

Parallel Wireless ALL G software-enabled Open RAN connects on 6 continents

Parallel Wireless cost-effective ALL G Open RAN solution helps global MNOs to connect the world.

WINNER Most Innovative Mobile/Wireless Product or Service

All G Solution by Parallel Wireless

Parallel Wireless has all the ‘Gs’ covered’ in our unified software platform, giving operators the ability to deploy and maintain any and all generations of mobile networks in a unified, simplified, and cost-effective way.

Most Innovative 5G Strategy

All G Solution by Parallel Wireless

Parallel Wireless’s ALL-G unified Software Platform brings 5G native architecture to the service providers deploying current (4G) and legacy (2G/3G) technologies or modernizing their networks. This software platform enables any 5G migration option and is software upgradable to any future 3GPP releases.

Innovation in Telecom Solution

HetNet Gateway by Parallel Wireless

HetNet Gateway supports ALL Gs (2G, 3G, 4G, 5G) under the same unified software umbrella, making cellular networks unified, programmable, automated, agile and future proof, to deliver an optimal network performance for all use cases.

Innovation in Smart City

HetNet Gateway by Parallel Wireless

HetNet Gateway enhances network performance across all network elements and enables MNOs to scale and gain profitability. With our innovative software, MNOs can evolve their cellular networks to meet the demands of IoT and smart cities.

Best Mobile Network Infrastructure

2G/3G/4G/5G Unified Software Platform by Parallel Wireless

Parallel Wireless leads with the world’s first all G solution. By supporting all Gs under the same software umbrella, Parallel Wireless delivers on the promises of interoperability, future proof, and automation made by the white box movement resulting with radically lower cost structures that enable service providers to expand coverage while becoming profitable.

Best Network Improvement

All G software by Parallel Wireless

With our unified ALL G software, MNOs can reduce network deployment time and costs for 2G/3G/4G/5G network expansions.

Best 5G Core Network Technology (Vendors)

HetNet Gateway by Parallel Wireless

With the help of HetNet Gateway, mobile operators can experience simplicity and cost savings through the entire lifespan of a cellular network, regardless of the generation.

Most Innovative NFV Solution

HetNet Gateway by Parallel Wireless

Parallel Wireless’s unique virtualized HetNet Gateway (HNG) makes it simpler and straightforward to introduce new functionality as VNF.

Leading Contribution to SDN and NFV

HetNet Gateway by Parallel Wireless

Parallel Wireless’s unique virtualized HetNet Gateway (HNG) technology supports any Access, any Transport, any SON, any Slice – delivering architectural and operational simplification through virtualization.

WINNER of Excellence in Commercial Deployment of Rural, Remote, and Temporary Small Cells

Connecting the Unconnected Canadians up North with Canada’s first unlimited 4G plan

Parallel Wireless’s cost-effective 2G/3G/4G Open RAN solution helps Ice Wireless connect the unconnected Canadians in Northern Canada.

WINNER of Social Impact – Promoting Small Cells for Social/Economic/Environmental Development

Telefonica and Parallel Wireless on a mission to connect LATAM 100 Million Unconnected

Parallel Wireless’s innovative Open RAN solution is helping bridge the digital divide in Latam with Telefonica.

HetNet Software and Services – Management and Automation

Using Big Data and vAnalytics to improve network performance and create new revenue opportunities

Data is growing at an alarming rate from various sources! Parallel Wireless is addressing the opportunity for real-time data and analytics through our RAN orchestrator, known as HetNet Gateway (HNG).

Winner for Innovation in Telecom Infrastructure

Innovative 2G/3G/4G NFV-based cellular solution allows service providers to cost-effectively provide quality services in rural areas

Parallel Wireless 2G/3G/4G cellular solution won the Aegis Graham bell Award for most innovative telecom infrastructure. The reimagined 2G, 3G, 4G cellular architecture enables operators to connect things and people at home, work, play and in emergencies by deploying any G cellular networks as easily and as cost-effectively as enterprise Wi-Fi whether for rural, enterprise, public safety, M2M, Smart Cities, or dense urban.

Best Mobile Network Infrastructure

Connecting the Unconnected with Parallel Wireless’s Any G CWS Base Station

Parallel Wireless’s Converged Wireless System (CWS) has been shortlisted for a GLOMO award in the best mobile network infrastructure category. This solution has been commercially deployed or trialed on six continents in rural, urban/dense urban, enterprise, public safety and M2M.

Best Mobile Operator Service for Consumers

Parallel Wireless & Ice Wireless Connect the Unconnected

Parallel Wireless’s cellular solution is helping mobile operator Ice Wireless to cost-effectively bridge Canada’s digital divide. We are thrilled to announce this partnership has been shortlisted for a GLOMO award in the best mobile operator service for consumers.

WINNER in AfricaCom Most Innovative LTE Service/Application Deployment

Connecting The Unconnected

Parallel Wireless has been recognized as the winner at AfricaCom for Most Innovative LTE Service/Application Deployment! Our unique virtualized technology helps service providers around the world to level the economic playing field and enhance LTE coverage with our cost-effective, easy to install and maintain solution.

Finalist in AfricaCom Best Network Function Virtualization Solution

HetNet Gateway

The Parallel Wireless HetNet Gateway (HNG) has been shortlisted by AfricaCom as one of the best Network Function Virtualization solutions! Deployed by EE and Telefonica (in Latin American markets), HetNet Gateway has since been deployed around the globe to provide cost savings and network orchestration for Optus in rural Australia, Ice Wireless in Northern Canada, as well as in many networks around the globe. Because this solution is multi-technology (3G, 4G, Wi-Fi) and is software-defined, it allows operators to improve their networks today while preparing for the networks of tomorrow!

Finalist in Next Gen Deployment- Wireless Category

Parallel Wireless vRAN aerial connectivity solution

Parallel Wireless’s end-to-end vRAN solution can be deployed on land, at sea, and in the air, to bring coverage to rural and remote areas instantly.

WINNER in Excellence in Commercial Deployment of Rural/Remote Small Cells Category

Parallel Wireless and Gilat Rural Solution

Rural connectivity is overlooked due to cost, deployment, and maintenance complexity. Parallel Wireless has partnered with Gilat to prove connectivity can be as easy and as cost effective as Wi-Fi. Our innovative work with Gilat enabled reliable coverage in rural Australia!

WINNER in HetNet Management Software and Services Category

Parallel Wireless HetNet Gateway

The Parallel Wireless HetNet Gateway is the industry’s first carrier-grade, high-performance true COTS virtualized solution that uniquely combines NFV and SDN to cost-effectively deploy and manage multi-RAT small cell networks. The complexity of today’s networks make it costly for operators to expand and manage. With the Parallel Wireless HetNet Gateway, operators can easily and cost effectively manage the 3G, 4G LTE, 5G ,& Wi-Fi networks of today and tomorrow.

Finalist Commercial Small Cell Backhaul Design and Technology Category

Parallel Wireless and BT Flexible Backhaul

Backhaul is considered to be one of the top three challenges when deploying small cells in any environment. With the traditional approach, operators are faced with lengthy deployments and substantial upfront investment. The Parallel Wireless vRAN solution gives operators the flexibility of choosing any fixed or wireless backhaul! Our vRAN solution backhaul flexibility capabilities enable faster deployments for a fraction of the cost!

Finalist in Leading Lights Most Innovative 5G Technology Strategy

HetNey Gateway

HetNet Gateway (HNG) from Parallel Wireless is the industry’s first carrier-grade, high-performance truly virtualized solution that enables cost-effective HetNet deployment/management. By logically sitting between RAN and core, HNG provides real-time visibility into both sides of the network. HNG uses the concepts of NFV to combine multiple VNFs with SDN automation to virtualize and orchestrate all gateway functionalities (3G, 4G, Wi-Fi gateways) required for multi-RAT networks of today and tomorrow.

Finalist in PR News’s Social Media Awards

Category of Facebook | Best PR Campaign

Parallel Wireless is thrilled to announce that our dynamic marketing team has been nominated as a finalist in PR News’s Social Media category of Facebook | Best PR Campaign! In July of 2016, we announced our biggest customer signing to date with Telefonica. Our work has been seen around the world and we believe it is very important to accommodate our global viewers by translating our marketing campaigns as well as accommodating the different time zones. This strategy enabled our work to be seen by over 178K people! We would like to thank our team members and the judges for recognizing our hard work.

Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough

Reimagined Rural Solution

First introduced as a 4G-only solution in 2014 for EE to provide wireless connectivity in rural UK communities, the now multi-mode 3G/4G solution is deployed globally: on land, in the air, and on water to connect the unconnected at much lower deployment cost and on accelerated timeline. Two years later, we have teamed up with Telefonica to provide digital services in remote areas in European and Latin American markets. Our deployment with Optus in Australia put the Parallel Wireless rural solution on five continents.

Smart Cities

Making Smart City Deployments as Easy and Cost-Effective as Wi-Fi

Wireless connectivity amplifies every aspect of daily life, from improving transportation and public safety to enhancing business and personal communications. The Parallel Wireless solution introduces unique innovation and functionality that makes it ideally suited to Smart Cities. This solution can enable vehicle-to-infrastructure communications (including emergency vehicles and public transit), connecting cars to one another as well as to city organizations for enabling power efficiency, tracking inclement weather, bad traffic and road closures.

Everything Intelligent – In-Building Wireless (Small Cell, Wi-Fi, and LAN)

Parallel Wireless Land Mobile LTE (LMLTE) In-A-Box solution for Public Safety

Parallel Wireless Public Safety LTE in-a-box, a 3GPP-compliant LTE solution, is hardened for emergency services and tactical communications needs. It can be deployed in various tactical and multi-cast environments ranging from deployable in emergencies to ad hoc outdoor or indoor scenarios. It provides secure, real-time LTE communications consisting of voice, high throughput video, data, Push-to-Talks, MMS, and/or SMS for multiple users. Easy to install, this solution delivers: reliable instant coverage from urban to rural locations, local organizational control on-site, and network resilience with self-healing features.

3rd Place for Everything Industrial & Enterprise – Mobility Management Solutions

Enabling Smart Nation with M1 and Parallel Wireless In-vehicle HetNet Technology

Transportation and technology are important components of enabling 5G and Smart Cities. HetNet architecture with multiple frequency bands and radio access technologies delivers better spectrum utilization for better subscriber QoS. On-Bus HetNet technology developed through M1 Limited & Parallel Wireless partnership provides transit passengers in Singapore with seamless high-throughput connectivity on board a moving bus (and potentially other public transit options such as trains); as envisioned for 5G, this allows the passengers to seamlessly stay connected with family, friends, colleagues, or to enjoy multimedia services on their devices. The service is well-received by passengers, the media, and other key stakeholders including Singapore’s Minister for Communications/Information Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim.

Most Notable Partnership between an operator and solutions provider for 5G trials and development

Smart Nation HetNet commercial trial with M1

Transportation & technology are important components of enabling 5G and Smart Cities. HetNet architecture with multiple frequency bands, radio access technologies delivers better spectrum utilization for better subscriber QoS. On-Bus HetNet technology, developed through a partnership between M1 Limited and Parallel Wireless, provides transit passengers in Singapore with seamless high-throughput connectivity on board Pof a moving vehicle (bus and train in the future), allowing the passengers, as envisioned for 5G, to seamlessly stay connected with their family, friends, colleagues, or to enjoy multimedia services on their devices.

Most Innovative LTE Application or Service

Parallel Wireless Public Safety LTE (Band 14) deployment at Super Bowl 50

With three weeks advance notice, Parallel Wireless deployed a public safety LTE (Band 14) network at Super Bowl 50 to demonstrate that public safety agencies can migrate to LTE to deliver resilient, ubiquitous coverage for voice and data in day-to-day operations and in emergencies – all at a much lower cost. This live Band 14 network (approved by FCC) demonstrated ease of deployment (two FBI technicians deployed it under 20 minutes) and maintenance and also every element required for public safety national broadband coverage including interoperability between agencies, flexible backhaul options, resilient mobile coverage, and communication from LMR to LTE.

Best Solution in Heterogeneous Network Deployment

Enterprise NFV Strategy

Parallel Wireless enterprise virtualized RAN (vRAN) solution is a 3GPP standards-based solution that enables the use of “white box” femtos or CAPs (Cellular Access Points) to provide cost-effective indoor coverage for secure quality voice/data in enterprise networks. The vRAN solution uses Parallel Wireless’ HetNet Gateway (HNG) that provides all the needed gateway functionalities on a single COTS platform and enables management of the enterprise RAN. With this vRAN solution, deployment is reduced from days to just a few hours, while eliminating the need for RF planning and extensive system integration as HNG makes enterprise vRAN self-configuring, self-optimizing, and self-healing.

WINNER Excellence in commercial deployment (Urban)

Smart Nation HetNet commercial trial with M1

This groundbreaking On-Bus HetNet Technology benefits public transit riders with seamless, high throughput wireless experience and provides real-time interactive Machine-to-Machine (M2M) capabilities over HetNets.

WINNER Excellence in commercial deployment (Rural & Remote)

Public Safety LTE deployment at Super Bowl 50

As coaches, teams, fans, and the media prepared for “The Big Game” in late January, public safety agencies in the San Francisco area also began their preparations for what is generally regarded as the biggest sporting event of the year. With 20 days until “The Big Game”, Barry Fraser of BAYRICS, joined by DHS and the Northern California Regional Information Center (NCRIC) asked Parallel Wireless to provide band 14 coverage for The Big Game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara as well as at the NFL Experience in downtown San Francisco.

Small cell access point and design technology

In-Vehicle CWS

Integrates backhaul and access in the same compact form factor and can be deployed in many different verticals from delivering resilient coverage to public safety/military, to supporting M2M capabilities for fleet management and enabling wireless coverage on public transit.

Small cell network element design technology

3G gateway functionality on our HetNet Gateway enabled by Radisys’s Femtotality software

Mobile operators are looking for new and affordable ways to address an increase in mobile data traffic over their multi-mode, multi-band networks and cannot justify investing in a single technology solution. Parallel Wireless Converged Wireless System (CWS) base station utilizes the Intel® Transcede™ T3150 dual-mode small cell system on chip (SoC). This reference design combines 3G, 4G/LTE and Wi-Fi and their functions into a single footprint, using common network connectivity, power, and backhaul. This greatly reduces additional capital expenditures and the need to acquire new small cell real estate, simplifies the backhaul infrastructure, and reduces overall power consumption.

Most Innovative Wireless Service (3G, 4G, Carrier Wi-Fi)

Parallel Wireless and M1 On-Bus HetNet Technology

Parallel Wireless and M1 have deployed On-Bus HetNet Technology for seamless connectivity on public buses in Singapore as part of the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore’s initiative to make Singapore the world’s first “smart nation”. The service provides passengers in Singapore with seamless high-throughput connectivity on board of a moving vehicle, allowing them to stay connected with their family, friends, colleagues, or to enjoy multimedia services on their devices.

WINS Best Innovation combining intelligence with open networking

HetNet Gateway (HNG)

HNG is designed to combine the benefits of gateway VNFs with real-time SON and centralized scheduling in one intelligent solution to reduce complexity and costs of deploying multi-vendor, multi-technology HetNets. HNG is the industry’s first carrier-grade, NFV/SDN-based, 3GPP compliant RAN orchestrator that unifies any technology and any vendor RAN to present it as one common interface to the core. HNG logically sits between the RAN and core and abstracts the RAN on any COTS hardware while making RAN self-configuring, self-optimizing, and self-healing; this also enables HNG to reduce signaling/paging load on the core.

Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough

Smart and Flexible RAN: Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) from Saguna enhanced with License Assisted Backhaul (LAB) and Unlicensed Assist (ULA) backhaul from Parallel Wireless

Parallel Wireless, the pioneer in making cellular network deployments and maintenance as easy and cost-effective as enterprise Wi-Fi, and Saguna Networks, a Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) pioneer have teamed up on this reimagined content caching solution. The License Assisted Backhaul and Unlicensed Assist technologies on Parallel Wireless CWS have been proven as key enablers in delivering access to remote villages in the UK. They now allow mobile operators to complement the backhaul capacity of their existing macro infrastructure, add resilience with SDN-enabled mesh fabric, and accelerate delivery of mobile content with MEC running as a Virtualized Network Function (VNF) on Parallel Wireless HetNet Gateway (HNG) orchestrator.

Most Innovative LTE Application/Service

Parallel Wireless Public Safety (Band 14) LTE Network for MACC Base, NH

Parallel Wireless is deploying a band 14 public safety network in rural NH that will demonstrate interoperability and ease of deployment, as well as automation of configuration and maintenance. In addition to demonstrating interoperability, this trial network will also address the requirements of FirstNet to provide voice and data coverage from rural, to in-buildings, to in-vehicles.

Metrocell Backhaul

Parallel Wireless Flexible Backhaul

Backhaul is considered to be in the top three challenges in deploying RAN. With the traditional approach, bringing backhaul to a site takes a long time and requires a substantial upfront investment because in order to deliver the highest speed possible, Service Providers need very expensive backhaul fiber. Backhaul technology requirements should focus firstly on the flexibility of using different types of backhaul – whatever is available at the potential deployment site, secondly, be easily configurable for mass deployments of small cells, and thirdly, be resilient to any type of failures. These three requirements of backhaul flexibility, automation and resilience were taken into consideration when Parallel Wireless developed their backhaul solution.

Best Communication Solution

Parallel Wireless vRAN Solution

Telecom is really about helping people communicate, historically that has meant connecting one with another, but now can mean connecting many with many, or connecting people to machines. This award recognizes the companies that advanced the noble cause of improving telecommunications.

Wide Area Network (WAN) category

Enabling RAN Hyperconnectivity with HetNet Gateway

Our capability to orchestrate and manage RAN across multi-technologies (RAN hyperconnectivity enablement) on the HetNet Gateway, a next-generation RAN orchestrator, has been nominated as a finalist in the Wide Area Network Category. Serving up innovative, emerging mobile services, solutions and technology, CTIA E-Tech Awards distinguish the best in IoT, cloud, mobile payments, in-building and wide area networks.

WINNER Most Innovative Wireless Service

Parallel Wireless and EE Rural Network

The rural micro network solution from Parallel Wireless does not rely on any wired broadband, and can connect communities of around 100 homes with just three or four base stations. The first community to be connected through trials of the new micro network technology is the small village of Sebergham, in Cumbria. Sebergham has 129 dwellings and 347 residents, and sits in a deep valley.

Most Innovative SDN Product Strategy

HetNet Gateway (HNG)

Radio access-independent, the HNG solution supports multiple radio access technologies with virtualized gateway network functions (VNFs), as well as real-time multi-technology SON and multi-technology C-RAN. With the HNG, Parallel Wireless is committed to helping mobile operators solve today’s spectrum and radio resource challenges, while extending network investments and significantly reducing the cost to deploy or maintain unified HetNets. By utilizing virtualized DPDK fast path – with accelerator – the HNG solution offers plenty of capacity for high network performance.

Best Core Product

HetNet Gateway (HNG)

The various solutions employed by today’s operators require additional support for signaling and paging optimization. HetNet Gateway does not require additional support as it not only aggregates eNodeBs under its management (along with their corresponding S1 interfaces), but also offers optimized paging. As a result, MME does not have to reach to individual cells for paging and only has to send paging to HNG. HNG would internally employ different techniques to determine the equivalent subset of cell(s) the UE should be paged with. With these advantages, a Service Provider can choose to build larger tracking areas without incurring signaling overload.

Most Innovative LTE Service

Rural Micro Network Technology

In the past, the main barrier to offering mobile coverage in remote areas of the UK has been the cost of building large radio towers and laying fiber/cables across the countryside. This new micro network first connects a small station (CWS nodes from Parallel Wireless) via mesh to a nearby macro tower (about 6km), and then extends the coverage and capacity of the tower to the nodes in the valley via backhaul mesh capabilities. Each node in the valley provides access to the community and backhaul connection to neighboring nodes. HetNet Gateway helps with the node configuration, optimization, traffic mitigation, and enables additional level of resilience and improves the economics of connecting hard-to-reach areas via cost-effective mesh.

WINNER Excellence in commercial deployment (Rural & Remote)

Parallel Wireless and EE Rural Network

EE and Parallel Wireless have joined forces to deliver award-winning innovation by connecting the previously unconnected in the UK. This 4G wireless broadband service utilizes Parallel Wireless micro network technology to enable EE to deliver reliable 4G LTE coverage across the UK. It uses virtualization principles to deliver consistent, superior LTE performance while changing the economics of cellular rollouts.

Small cell access point and design technology

Converged Wireless System (CWS)

Our outdoor Converged Wireless System (CWS-110) base station supports LTE, LTE advanced, and Wi-Fi. CWS hardware is designed from cost-effective components to deliver maximum coverage, scalability and flexibility to build faster, smarter, and more reliable networks.

Small cell backhaul design technology

Converged Wireless System enabled by HetNet Gateway

The CWS has multiple backhaul options including mesh enabled by HetNet Gateway (HNG). Backhaul is considered to be one of the top three challenges faced by small cell deployments from cost perspective and the time that fixed backhaul might take to install. HNG manages mesh between CWS units that enables them to connect to each other and the packet core without the need for expensive fiber. The nodes can also daisy chain the network even further to bring low cost wireless broadband to remote areas without any additional expenses.

Best Technical Platform based on Network Intelligence for SDN/NFV

HetNet Gateway

HetNet Gateway from Parallel Wireless is the industry’s first 100% 3GPP-compliant, carrier-grade, high-performance NFV- and SDN-based RAN orchestrator that unleashes a dramatic cost advantage while enabling operators to both scale and grow their multi-vendor multi-technology (3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi) networks. HNG virtualizes the RAN interfaces for real-time network management while abstracting RAN changes from the core network and the core network itself from the RAN.

Best Mobile Breakthrough Technology

Parallel Wireless & EE Rural Network

EE, the UK’s largest mobile operator, and Parallel Wireless, the provider of world-first rural micro network solution, together are committed to reimagining the economics of rural cellular coverage and bringing reliable mobile Internet to underserved communities.

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Mary-Kay Peacock

Mary Kay has 20+ years’ experience in Technical Project and Program Management working for a variety of Fortune 500 enterprises and small start-ups across multiple industries. After receiving her Computer Science degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, she was accepted into a prestigious 5 year accelerated management training program at the Travelers Insurance company.

After successfully completing the program, Mary Kay relocated to Boston, MA where she began working at multiple technology startups, driving improved quality practices within Engineering as well as leading successful enterprise customer engagements. Most recently she has held positions working directly for company leadership to drive strategic transformation of Engineering and non-Engineering operations alike.

At PW, she spear-heads the efforts to strategically transform operational activities to ensure PW is creating products and delivering services to create customer success. Mary Kay is equally passionate about company culture and communication and has led PW’s Value in Action Awards program along with the Getting to Know PW series.

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Sanjay Harwani

Sanjay Harwani is the GM, India and VP, R&D at Parallel Wireless. Sanjay is a highly experienced R&D manager with 25+ years of experience in Research and Development. Sanjay joined Parallel Wireless in 2014 and built various products in Parallel Wireless portfolio. Sanjay played a key role in building various R&D teams and was instrumental in growing them manifolds.

Before joining Parallel Wireless he worked with Cisco for 10+ years where he lead various cross functional teams in the domain of Broadband Access, Core Routing, Switching, Telecom Core and various Gateway functions.

Sanjay has held several technical and leadership roles within high tech companies, among them are Cisco, Infineon and Marconi/FORE Systems.

Sanjay holds a Master of Science degree in Networking and Telecom from Stratford University, USA and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communications from NIT Bhopal, India.

On a personal note, Sanjay is married to Keerti and is a proud father of 2 kids, Kanav and Hrishant. In his free time, he loves to play table tennis and spending time with his family.

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Baruch Navon

Baruch is highly experienced R&D manager with almost 20 years of experience in Research and Development. Before joining Parallel Wireless Baruch held a position of engineering manager at Intel, where he led cross domain teams for several wireless solutions, from the Silicon and RF design, through development and integration till mass production. It included several engineering functionalities such as VLSI, software, firmware and hardware.

Baruch had several technical and leadership roles within high tech companies, among them Siano Mobile Siicon and Motorola.

Baruch joined Parallel Wireless back in 2018 as a Director of Access Technologies, which he led and built several teams globally. Baruch promoted into a Vice President of Access Technologies role for 2 years and today he is acting as Head Of global R&D. As Head of R&D Baruch is in charge for leading all engineering functions, strategic planning, budget and execution.

Baruch holds a B.Sc in computer engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (Cum Laude), M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University and Management studies from Tel Aviv University.

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Reni Ninan

Reni Ninan brings over 25 years of experience to his role as SVP of Product Management at Parallel Wireless. His unique background from living and working in Delhi, Dubai, Chicago, Dallas, Moscow, Gurgaon, and India, across multiple technologies; Optical, IP, Microwave, Mobile and 2G/3G, 4G and now 5G, will serve as an asset to the organization. Additionally, his ability as a results-oriented, problem solver and quick, data driven decision maker with a strong customer focus will positively impact the Parallel Wireless experience. One of the contributing factors to his success is through developing strong relationships with customers and internal stakeholders that build trust, credibility and create positive results.

His most previous experience was as Vice President and Head of Global RAN Operations at Mavenir where he successfully oversaw and grew an incubation team for customer engagements spanning across multiple countries in all continents. Prior to joining Mavenir, he served 21 years between Nortel and Ericsson, with Nortel being acquired by Ericsson in 2009. During his tenure, he held various advancing roles, across multiple technologies, with his final as VP and Head of Operations of Emerging Business.

He holds a BS in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Government College of Engineering, Trivandrum, India.

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Steve O'Brien

My name is Steve O’Brien. As an HR Executive with 30 years of experience I am excited to join Parallel Wireless in my new role as Chief People Officer (CPO) . I have a strong track record and passion for building great teams and great businesses with publicly traded companies(GE, Cadbury Schweppes, Sara Lee, Avon Products), distressed companies undergoing turnarounds (Playtex and Mikasa) as well as global, well funded pre revenue startups (Freshly, Clever Leaves). One of my greatest strengths is an ability to build cohesive global teams filled with talented, engaged team mates who deliver results in a supportive, high performance culture. I believe passionately in a People First Strategy. During my tenure, I’ve experienced both success and failure as a business leader. I bring a “Work Hard and Play Harder” philosophy and strive to be an empathic leader and player/coach.

On a personal note I am married to Susan O’Brien, a very talented and successful Psychotherapist(My Coach) and I’m the proud father of four kids, including Triplets (Daniel, Sara, and Rebecca O’Brien). In my free time I enjoy golf, open water swimming, Notre Dame Footbal (Go Irish) an enjoy spending time with my partner and kids.

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Matt Rowe

Matt brings over 15 years of global law firm and GC experience representing technology companies across all stages of growth. At Shoobx and Gazelle, he was a member of the executive teams responsible for all corporate financing, legal operations and strategy to support growth. At Endeca, he managed commercial licensing and was responsible for overseeing corporate compliance and governance initiatives, intellectual property matters, international operations and expansion. Matt was responsible for driving legal aspects of the successful negotiation and sale of the company to Oracle (its 6th largest acquisition ever when announced – reported at $1.1 billion). As an attorney at Goodwin, Matt represented public and private growth technology companies and advised clients on IPOs, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital transactions. Matt has a BA in Political Science from Boston College and a JD from Boston College Law School.

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Eugina Jordan

Eugina, a self-made immigrant woman, started her telecom career as a secretary and now has gone on to become VP of Marketing of the major telecom industry disruptor Parallel Wireless. She has over 20 years of strategic marketing experience, leading marketing and communications for small and large global technology companies.

She has been Instrumental in establishing Parallel Wireless as the #1 supplier of Open RAN solutions globally. At Cisco, she was responsible for fiscal planning, managing a 20m+ budget, and all integrated marketing activities for SP Mobility and IPNGN product and solutions portfolios globally. Prior to Cisco, she was the Marketing Manager for Starent, since nearly the company’s inception and developed and managed the marketing strategy for the launch of Cisco’s $2B Starent Networks acquisition at Mobile World Congress 2010.

She is also an inventor, holding 6 patents that include 5G and Open RAN.

Her passion is to help other women in telecom to realize their full potential through mentorships, communities’ engagement, and workshops. Her story is a positive example that if you work hard, play fair, continue to learn, and always believe in yourself, you can grow yourself, your career, and others.

Eugina resides in Massachusetts with her husband, teenage son, and three rescue dogs. She loves theater and museums. She volunteers for dog rescues and programs that help underprivileged children and women.

Eugina has a Masters of Teaching from Moscow Pedagogical University, and studied computer undergrad at CDI College in Toronto, Canada.

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Chris Sullivan

Chris is an accomplished CFO, CEO and Board member with a passion for leading dynamic high growth businesses.  His executive leadership experience spans companies of all sizes ranging from start-ups to large multinationals including Dataxu, Inc, Gazelle Inc, Fidelity Investments, Pegasystems, Event Zero, and Digital Equipment Corporation.  Chris has helped these companies build game-changing and actionable business and financial plans to drive revenue growth and improved profits. His track record for improving financial results while improving customer and employee satisfaction led to his being named CFO of the Year (2012) by Boston Business Journal.

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Yisrael Nov

Yisrael has over 30 years of experience in business development and account management where he’s driven revenue growth and led strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and deal pricing. At Gilat, he sought out and sourced new clients by developing networks and independently identifying and developing relevant resources for sales and business development. Yisrael also refocused Gilat’s portfolio from satellite solutions to include cellular solutions to drive an increase of 42% in company revenue. Previously, as a General Manager at EMI System in Nigeria, he performed P&L and R&D responsibility for ‘full options’ security solutions to high profile clients in the private and public sectors across Nigeria while also directly managing a global team responsible for product planning, product marketing, new product introduction, software development, network level testing, solutions development, and post-sales support. He has an MA from MeA SheArim, Jerusalem.

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Simon Mellor

Simon has over 30 years of experience as a telecom and defense industry executive. Simon was the founder and CEO of Axis Network Technology and reimagined the remote radio head with a next-generation re-configurable digital radio platforms company. As a result of the company’s technology and significant market share, it was acquired by leading Korean manufacturer AceAxis and its products have been deployed in numerous cellular networks around the world. Prior to AceAxis, Mr. Mellor led technology strategy at Airtech as Chief Technology Officer, where he reimagined base station and coverage enhancement equipment. As a head of Global Business Development and then European Sales for REMEC, he achieved significant growth in multiple OEM accounts. Simon holds an MSc, Microwave and Modern Optics from U. of London, BSc, Electronic Physics from Royal Holloway, University of London and MBA from The Open University.

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Sridhar Donepudi

Sridhar co-founded Parallel Wireless after 20+ years as a proven technology leader with focus on reimagining traffic/policy management, base stations, Class 5 Switching, IMS Core, Wireless MSC and Telephony Application Server. As the Sr. Principal Architect of Next-Gen Products, Sridhar reimagined the design and development of Cedar Point/Genband 3GPP traffic and policy management solution. He was a founding member of several successful startups such as Cedar Point (acquired by Genband) where he was Technical Director of Call Processing, Excel Switching/Lucent (Technical Lead) where he led the design of Lucent soft switch and Tellabs Wireless where he led design of PCS base station. He has 15 US patents pending and issued. He holds an M.Tech, Applied Electronics from CIT and B.E, Electronics Engineering.

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Kaitki Agarwal

As Chief Product Officer Kaitki is responsible for leading product strategy, product management and engineering. Kaitki co-founded the company after 20+ years of leading and managing worldwide product development teams who reimagined the Packet Core. She has been instrumental in managing and scaling the development of the Starent/Cisco Multimedia/VoLTE strategic product line that generated multimillion dollar revenue. Prior to that, as a founding member of several successful startups, Kaitki was responsible for SS7 & SIP Signaling at Cedarpoint, Wireless MSC at Lucent/Bellabs and was involved in reimagining Base Station Controller (BSC) for wireless network at Tellabs. Kaitki has 20+ US patents pending and issued. Kaitki holds MBA from Babson College and a BS in Computer Science from IIT.

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Rajesh Mishra

Rajesh is a visionary who, together with the other company founders, accurately identified the need for easy to deploy, resilient and cost-effective LTE network architecture that would overcome many of the legacy technical challenges associated with wireless communications — the foundation upon which Parallel Wireless was born. Rajesh co-founded the company after 21+ years of reimagining the wireless, wireline, and cable industry and leads the technology behind the Parallel Wireless solutions. As one of the industry’s pioneers in convergence technologies, he led the development of next-gen VoLTE and 3G/4G Femtocell convergence servers at Tatara, led transformation of first commercial softswitch into a Wireless MSC product at Bell Labs/Lucent, reimagined cable industry leading IMS servers at Cedarpoint, and led commercial mobile ad hoc networks (MANETS) development at Powerwave Cognition. He has 25 US and international patents pending and issued. He holds a BS in Computer Science from IIT.

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Keith Johnson

Keith brings to the organization a tremendous amount of business, technology and thought leadership expertise. As Chief Technology Officer at his previous company, Fuze, Keith led innovation and differentiation strategy for Fuze’s product portfolio. Prior to Fuze, Keith was co-founder and CEO of Parlai, a Boston-based startup focused on cloud-based email analytics. Before Parlai, he held the position of SVP of Engineering for 10 years at Endeca, one of the great Boston-based enterprise software success stories, where he led the teams that reimagined the company’s pioneering customer experience management, enterprise search, and business intelligence applications. After Endeca was acquired by Oracle, Keith became Group Vice President, Software Development and was given expanded responsibility over the Information Discovery, Oracle Web Center Sites, Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, and Oracle Language Technologies product lines. Keith holds a BSE in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton University.

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Steve Papa

Steve leads the senior management team in setting the company’s strategic direction and is guiding the company’s evolution from its successful first customer deployment into broad commercialization and growth. Steve has been part of reimagining the technology landscape for over 20 years. As founder and CEO of Endeca, he reimagined the database to support faceted information ultimately leading to Oracle acquiring the company as its 6th largest acquisition ever when announced (reported at $1.1 billion). He was part of the team creating Akamai that reimagined global Internet content distribution – now carrying peaks of 15 terabits/s of web traffic on any given day – and led the team at Inktomi that reimagined the network cache to create carrier class caching. Earlier he worked with AT&T Teradata where enterprise computing was reimagined with the first use of Intel processors for enterprise servers. He has a BS from Princeton University and MBA from Harvard Business School.

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