In another round of recognition for best infrastructure and
customer service excellence, C&W Networks once again emerged
with top billing, this time winning the award for
Best
Network and Service Innovation in the Caribbean and Latin America
(CALA) Region. The latest recognition came at the annual
MEF Excellence Awards 2017 in Orlando, Florida on November
14. The accolade comes on the heels of its recent award for
Best Latin America Wholesale
Carrier at the 13th Global Carrier Awards held in
London in October.
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This latest award recognizes C&W Networks, a
division of C&W Communications (C&W) and
a Liberty Global company, for its leadership in the
development and delivery of global, regional, retail and wholesale
services as well as excellence in network and service innovation,
strategy and marketing. C&W Networks was chosen by a judging
panel comprised of 14 global and regional senior analysts from ACG
Research, ATLANTIC-ACM, Battle Green Research, Frost &
Sullivan, Global Data, IHS Markit, Metanoia, Ovum, and Vertical
Systems, in addition to independent judges. This is the
second year in a row the Company has won this award.
“We are honored to continue to be recognized for
our industry leadership in service innovation in the Caribbean and
Latin America region. This award is a result of continued
investment in our network and people that ensures the continued
excellence of both our customer service and infrastructure. We are
committed to pushing the boundaries of providing unmatched service
on the best network in the region so that our customers can
continue to succeed,” said Paul Scott, President of C&W Latam
and Wholesale.
MEF is an industry association of more than 210
member companies and manages the world's largest awards program
that is focused on emerging dynamic network services powered by
Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO), Software-Defined Networking
(SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Carrier
Ethernet.
“We continue to see amazing service and
technology innovations year-over-year in the MEF Awards program,
and are thrilled to witness the advances being made to accelerate
development and delivery of agile, assured, and orchestrated
services,” said Nan Chen, President, MEF. “We are pleased to
congratulate the 2017 Award Winners, and look forward to seeing
more innovation from them as we move into 2018.”
For more information on the MEF Awards 2017
please visit: http://www.mef.net/2017_MEF_Awards
About C&W Networks
C&W Networks is a wholly owned subsidiary of
C&W Communications and a wholesale telecommunications service
provider that offers broadband, IP capacity and a growing portfolio
of managed services and integrated solutions to global, regional
and local telecom carriers, TV cable companies, Internet Service
Providers and Network Integrators. C&W Networks operates the
largest state-of-the-art subsea multi-ring fibre-optic network
throughout the greater Caribbean, Central American and Andean
region along with the most comprehensive fully meshed MPLS network
in the region. Connecting over 40 countries, the company’s fully
protected ringed submarine fibre-optic network spans more than
50,000 kilometers Cable routes include the Caribbean Optical-ring
System (ARCOS- 1), Colombia-Florida Express (CFX-1), EC-Link cable
system, Fibralink, Maya 1, Eastern Caribbean Fiber Express (ECFS),
Taino-Carib, East-West, Cayman-Jamaica Fibre system,
Caribbean-Bermuda U.S (CBUS), Americas II, Gemini Bermuda, Pan
America (PAN-AM), Antillas 1 and Pacific Caribbean Cable System
(PCCS). For more information, visit: www.cwnetworks.com.
About C&W
Communications
C&W is a full-service communications and
entertainment provider that delivers market-leading video,
broadband, telephony and mobile services to consumers in 18
countries. Through its business division, C&W provides data
center hosting, domestic and international managed network
services, and customized IT service solutions, utilizing cloud
technology to serve business and government customers.
C&W also operates a state-of-the-art
submarine fiber network – the most extensive in the region.
Learn more at www.cwc.com, or follow C&W on
LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.
About Liberty Global Liberty
Global is the world’s largest international TV and broadband
company, with operations in more than 30 countries across Europe,
Latin America and the Caribbean. We invest in the infrastructure
that empowers our customers to make the most of the digital
revolution. Our scale and commitment to innovation enable us to
develop market-leading products delivered through next-generation
networks that connect our over 24 million customers who subscribe
to over 50 million television, broadband internet and telephony
services. We also serve over 10 million mobile subscribers and
offer WiFi service across 10 million access points.
Liberty Global’s businesses are comprised of two
stocks: the Liberty Global Group (NASDAQ:LBTYA) (NASDAQ:LBTYB) and
(NASDAQ:LBTYK) for our European operations, and the LiLAC Group
(NASDAQ:LILA) and (NASDAQ:LILAK) (OTC Pink:LILAB), which consists
of our operations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Liberty Global Group operates in 12 European
countries under the consumer brands Virgin Media, Unitymedia,
Telenet and UPC. The Liberty Global Group also owns 50% of
VodafoneZiggo, a Dutch joint venture, which has 4 million
customers, 10 million fixed-line subscribers and 5 million mobile
subscribers. The LiLAC Group operates in over 20 countries in Latin
America and the Caribbean under the consumer brands VTR, Flow,
Liberty, Más Móvil and BTC. In addition, the LiLAC Group operates a
sub-sea fiber network throughout the region in over 40 markets.
For more information, please visit
www.libertyglobal.com.
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