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BT Awards and praise
BT a winner in 2010 GTB Awards
When Global Telecoms Business announced the winners of its 2010 Innovation Awards, BT and its vendors were in the winner's circle three times:
Wholesale network innovation
Winners: BT with Huawei for service enablement through software developer kit
IT service innovation
Winners: BT with Riverbed for WAN optimisation service
Business migration innovation
Winners: BT with Ontology Systems for Optimising and accelerating product and system migration
The industry's leading innovators from around the world were honoured at a black-tie dinner in London. The winners represent the most innovative projects in the industry worldwide in five key categories:
- Fixed infrastructure innovation
- Wireless infrastructure innovation
- Wholesale service innovation
- Business service innovation
- Consumer service innovation
In presenting the awards, Alan Burkitt-Gray, editor of Global Telecoms Business, commented: “This is the fourth time we've run our Innovation Awards and each year we've seen that the industry is working harder and harder to deliver exciting and innovative services to its customers worldwide."
"Congratulations to all the award winners," said Burkitt-Gray. "The industry is seeing a wave of innovation which is making a huge difference - to the companies working in the industry and to all of us in business and as consumers. They are making such a difference to the world. We want to celebrate what they are doing."
All awards went to projects involving a close collaboration between an operator and a vendor, and executives journeyed from India, Russia, South Africa, the US and many other parts of the world to the London event.
All awards, with the exception of the Editor's Award, were nominated by readers of Global Telecoms Business. The awards were sponsored by Huawei and ZTE, though neither company played any part in short-listing or selecting the winners.
Full details of the winning projects will be given in the next printed issue of Global Telecoms Business.
Award-winning BT Security Services boost interoperability portfolio
Security management is one of the most difficult aspects of allowing application-driven content to travel across network borders. BT has a robust and comprehensive security services portfolio that ensures the integrity of operators' traffic when it travels across networks.
In the January 2010 Datamonitor Black Book of Outsourcing report, BT Global Services (GS) Security Services received the highest rating overall among 65 of the world's leading IT security services vendors. BT GS was also rated as the top security provider on nine other attribute indicators that customers believe are critical to performance success.
BT also received the highest rating across a number of operational excellence categories. In fact, BT was the only managed security provider to earn top rankings in multiple categories in this independent and impartial survey of global business leaders.
"BT Global Services has earned the distinction of being the most customer-respected managed security solutions vendor in the world," said Doug Brown, co-author of The Black Book of Outsourcing. "BT Global Services has earned the top honors in the industry due to its ability to deploy consistently across the full spectrum of criteria that clients look for in their managed security solutions vendor." Please read the full press release here.
Further, BT Global Services positioned as one of the only two providers with "comprehensive" ranking for breadth of managed security services in Forrester’s "Market Overview: Managed Security Services," Forrester Research, Inc., March, 2010.
Such recognitions are significant in the context of the IP interoperability services offered by BT. When operators on both ends can present their users with a seamless security layer for the transmission of sensitive business or private data, customers will have more confidence about entrusting their business processes or private dealings to the networks. BT IP Interoperability also addresses current barriers and some regulatory requirements that prevent innovation in services where certain security and integrity levels cannot be assured. Starting with such obvious elements as AntiSpam, AntiSpit, AntiVirus and Anti-Intrusion, the BT security layer can also offer connecting operators elements of the BT Counterpane security portfolio.
To find out more about BT's Interoperability offerings, please read the article "Network interoperability drives new IP based business opportunities" in this issue of Global Telecom News.
BTGS wins Telecom Asia Award
BT Asia-Pacific has once more been voted Best Managed Services Provider in the Telecom Asia Awards, chosen by industry analysts and Telecom Asia editors.
BT won this award three years in a row 2006-2008, lost it last year and reclaimed it this year.
The awards, presented every year since 1998, are the longest-running regional telecom honours. Telecom Asia is a top-tier trade publication in the Asia Pacific region and has 65,000 monthly readers on its website and 15,000 subscribers to its monthly magazine. Its target readers are the CxOs and technical professionals in various industries.
BT receives Frost & Sullivan Green Excellence Award in corporate leadership
BT has been awarded the "2010 European Telecoms Corporate Leadership Green Excellence Award". This award recognises BT's leadership in environmental initiatives which include a whole host of both internal and external measures designed to reduce carbon emissions.
In the 2008-2009 financial year, BT ventured into several new areas, which include work on a radical new economic model for measuring firms' carbon intensity, backed by the Carbon Disclosure Project and the unveiling of a new range of energy efficient phones. BT is also proud to have been appointed as one of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games sustainability partners - a platform that is already being used to encourage people to address climate change.
As the company continues its green journey towards reducing absolute carbon emissions in the United Kingdom by 80 percent by 2016 (and carbon intensity by 80 percent in 2020 globally), BT is giving top priority to projects that bring emissions reductions by changing behaviour. The company believes that engaging employees to reduce energy use is one of the most effective ways to cut emissions, whilst reducing operational costs.
Building on the success of many emissions-saving measures that BT is renowned for, such as flexible working policies and conferencing facilities, new internal measures have seen significant energy savings over the past year. In 2008, BT launched a new global energy saving campaign to save 75,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and £15 million by March 2011. So far, this has resulted in new measures that will reduce the company's energy consumption by more than 53 GWh per annum and its carbon footprint by 20,200 tonnes a year. Measures include turning off equipment that was no longer in service, changes in Data Centre management and operation and reductions in office space.
Externally, BT has done a remarkable job in leveraging its internal successes by turning them into solutions for customers. These include energy efficiency management, remote working/collaboration best practices, virtualisation designs, wide spread use of conferencing facilities and data centre optimisation. BT Global Services specifically has managed to grow a strong consultancy business focusing on sustainable solutions. BT Retail is offering a range of energy-efficient telephone units.
BT is engaged in a number of external sustainability initiatives, including a Carbon Supply Chain study with the Carbon Trust and a Transforming Transport study with Forum for the Future. BT is also working in collaboration with key industry bodies such as the WRI, GESI and ICT4EE to create a world first in setting industry measurement standards based on carbon assessment methodologies.
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