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Frost & Sullivan today opened the call for nominations for its annual Asia Pacific Technology Awards. Held for the second time, the Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Technology Awards 2005 will once again recognize and honor outstanding performance by companies and individuals in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry across the region. "Based on the same proven underlying research approach adopted in our detailed examination of companies and their performance, this year's awards will see more contenders bidding for each of the prestigious award as nominations will also be open for industry players to participate," said Manoj Menon, Partner at Frost & Sullivan. "Based on the same proven underlying research approach adopted in our detailed examination of companies and their performance, this year's awards will see more contenders bidding for each of the prestigious award as nominations will also be open for industry players to participate," said Manoj Menon, Partner at Frost & Sullivan. Frost & Sullivan is pleased to invite companies to submit their nominations to be in the running for the 24 award categories offered this year. In addition to self-nominations, given our in-depth coverage and assessment of the industry, the Frost & Sullivan team of analysts will also shortlist companies which are leaders and must-have challengers in their space. Menon said, "Since successfully hosting the inaugural awards last year, we have had overwhelming feedback from industry players who want to be a part of the awards and benchmarked amongst the peers in their class. We have therefore taken a slightly different approach this year in the nomination process allowing any ICT vendor, service provider and individual who believe they have a skin in the game to nominate themselves in the various categories. "Employing the same stringent measurement standards that has been the hallmark of Frost & Sullivan globally in evaluating the companies, this will prove to be a true test of may the best man or company win," he added. Frost & Sullivan invites companies and individuals to nominate themselves for the 24 award categories of the year (OTY) to be offered within three main clusters: 'Vendor', 'Service Provider' and the 'Best of the Best'. Nominations may be submitted online at www.technology-awards.com. Nominations close April 22, 2005. The award categories to be contested by clusters are: Vendor Service Provider Best of the Best * Most Promising Vendor OTY * Enterprise Telephony Vendor OTY * Call Center Applications Vendor OTY * Security Network Vendor OTY * Operational CRM Vendor OTY * Business Intelligence Vendor OTY * Next Generation Network Infrastructure Vendor OTY * Wireless Infrastructure Vendor OTY * Billing Solutions Vendor OTY * Broadband Equipment Vendor OTY * Optical Vendor OTY * Storage Vendor OTY * Wireless Service Provider OTY * Service Provider OTY * Competitive Service Provider OTY * Next Generation Network Service Provider OTY * Broadband Service Provider OTY * Wireless Content Service Provider OTY * Data Communications Service Provider OTY * Most Promising Service Provider OTY * CEO of the Year: Vendor * CEO of the Year: Service Provider * Most Innovative Application /Product of the Year * Regulator of the Year All submissions will be evaluated based on actual market performance indicators of revenue growth, market share and growth in market share, leadership in product innovation, breadth of products and solutions, major customer acquisitions, and business and market strategy. The findings of the detailed examination will then be presented to a panel of independent judges comprising influential personalities and leaders in Asia Pacific's ICT industry. The line-up of judges include key decision makers and representatives from Lucent, Asia Netcom, Alcatel, Equant, Telekom Malaysia, Convergys, StarHub, Juniper Networks, PCCW and the media. The deserving recipients will be awarded their coveted titles at a banquet to be held in conjunction with CommunicAsia2005 and EnterpriseIT2005 on June 15, 2005. The Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Technology Awards 2005 is supported by CommunicAsia2005 and EnterpriseIT2005, and is hosted in partnership with the CMP Business Media group as the official media and marketing partner. "We are pleased to offer our support to the Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Technology Awards. The Awards ceremony is one of many exciting events in the line-up of activities held concurrently with CommunicAsia2005. Some of our exhibitors will be recipients of these esteemed awards, so it is certainly timely for Frost & Sullivan to hold their Awards at the same time as CommunicAsia, where the business of technology comes to life," said Victor Wong, Project Director for Communication Events, Singapore Exhibition Services. Last year's award recipients include Alcatel, SingTel, Samsung, Juniper Networks, IBM Global Services, Ericsson, Huawei Technologies, Avaya, Cisco Systems, Convergys and Siebel Systems.