About the Awards

1. Innovation 

Does the Company demonstrate passion and introduce high quality innovative products that provide significant improvements to standard capabilities to the degree that it stands out within its product category? 

2. Leadership

Does the Company provide thought leadership, or other leadership roles within the community? 

3. Business Practices

Does the company exhibit high ethical standards? Do they continually seek new ways to enhance and promote the Wireless Community?

4. Strong Communication and Collaboration

Does the Company express its vision clearly and make itself accessible to the community? Do they build trust through collaboration? 

1. Innovation Does the product introduce new features/specifications or provide such significant improvements to standard capabilities to the degree that it stands out within its product category?

2. Challenges/Solutions  Does the Product address a challenge/process,  detail objectives/constraints; and site and/or design challenges.

3. Ease of integration into environment 

How easily does the product integrate with other products - both from the same vendor and others? Can the product operate effectively in heterogeneous environments? Has the product been certified/tested by a significant number of WLAN Professionals?

4. Ease of use and manageability 

Is the product easy to install? Are the product's interfaces intuitive? Are the product's functions clear, easy to learn and to run? Is the product likely to require the help of professional services on an ongoing basis? Will the product scale smoothly to accommodate growth in an environment?

5. Value 

Does the product represent a cost-effective solution? Can the ROI be easily justified? If the product is expensive or represents an additional cost, is the added functionality worth the price? Will the product be cost effective to maintain?

6. Functionality 

Does the product deliver as promised? Is the product's feature set complete and more than adequate to handle its job? Does the product provide greater or more useful functionality than others in its category? Are there any serious functional omissions?