New for 2024, the NaaS Excellence Awards will highlight innovation, collaboration, and industry leadership within the NaaS ecosystem.
With expanded award categories—including technology vendors, use-case scenarios, and multivendor solutions—the awards celebrate the latest advancements shaping the future of NaaS.
Awards Open: 4 June 2024
Entries Close Extended! 16 August 2024
Finalists Announced:
24 September 2024
Awards Announced: 29 October 2024, at the GNE NaaS Excellence Awards Gala Dinner
Award Submissions: awards.MEF.net
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Global & Regional
Recognizes the Network-as-a-service (NaaS) provider that best combines on-demand connectivity, application assurance, cybersecurity, multi-cloud-based services, and other advanced features in order to provide a superior cloud-like customer experience between August 2023 and July 2024.
Recognizes an industry-leading service provider that has strategically committed to offering a NaaS platform/solution, has shared an advanced vision for NaaS, and has implemented the best NaaS marketing program. All elements of the NaaS solution do not have to be in production at the time of submission for the award.
Global & Regional
Recognizes an industry-leading service provider that offers on-demand MEF 3.0 CE services optimized for digital transformation.
Global & Regional
Recognizes an industry-leading service provider that combines network connectivity, cybersecurity functions, and subscriber policies into the most compelling SASE service offering available to customers between August 2023 and July 2024.
Global & Regional
Recognizes an industry-leading service provider that offers the most advanced SD-WAN service available in the market. This secure application-aware, over-the-top WAN connectivity service uses policies to determine how application flows are directed over multiple underlay networks between August 2023 and July 2024.
Global & Regional
Recognizes a service provider that has the largest number of MEF LSO business API production implementations with buyer and/or sell partners.
Recognizes the company offering the best digital services ecosystem automation platform. This company plays a central role in interconnecting ecosystem players—including enterprises, hyperscalers, SaaS providers, communications service providers, and others—using a combination of MEF LSO APIs and customized APIs.
Recognizes an industry-leading technology vendor enabling NaaS aligned to a standards-based framework between August 2023 and July 2024.
Recognizes an industry-leading technology provider that has strategically committed to offering a NaaS solution, has shared an advanced vision for NaaS, and has implemented the best NaaS marketing program. All elements of the NaaS solution do not have to be in production at the time of submission for the award.
Recognizes a leading technology vendor that combines SD-WAN + SSE + ZT into industry-leading SASE solution between August 2023 and July 2024.
Recognizes a leading technology vendor that most advances SD-WAN technology between August 2023 and July 2024.
Recognizes the LSO solution provider that has supported the largest number of MEF LSO business or operational API implementations between August 2023 and July 2024.
Recognizes a software technology solutions provider that has had the greatest impact in accelerating digital transformation and improving customer experience across the industry through automation of business and/or operational workflows in the end-to-end service lifecycle.
Recognizes a software technology solutions provider that has introduced a highly innovative solution that helps service providers overcome a particular pressing challenge in transitioning to dynamic services and delivering NaaS solutions. This solution may be targeted toward automation of a specific business or operational function or automation of multiple functions.
Recognizes the industry executive who has exhibited exceptional leadership (vision, strategy, execution, collaboration, etc.) during the past year in driving industry transformation toward dynamic services across an ecosystem of automated networks.
This memorial award recognizes an outstanding individual who has made a demonstratively positive impact in building a sense of community, sharing knowledge, and encouraging collaboration to create a better together industry. Examples of positive impact include a friendly, supportive approach to professional relationships, leadership in helping industry leaders tackle difficult challenges, meaningful contributions to hot topic projects, demonstrated willingness to engage with and mentor colleagues, and a positive attitude that inspires others.