This year marks the start of the Lightwave Innovation Awards, an optical communications technology recognition program. We invited technology developers to submit products for review by our independent panel of judges. Three judges evaluated each product and rated them on the following scale:
0-1: Useful product, yet commodity
2-3: Solid product with viable attributes that set it apart
4: Excellent product with technical features and performance that provide clear and substantial benefits
5: Superb product that sets new standard for performance and provides groundbreaking and new technical milestones.
Our hats are off to the vendors brave enough to submit their products for review. As you’ll see, that bravery was rewarded with solid scores all around.