2007 Heavy Reading award for Ethernet Service Provider of the Year
Heavy Reading's National/International Innovation Award rewards the carrier that clearly demonstrated advancement in developing a global Ethernet network. Announcement of Reliance Communications' acquisition of Yipes this year solidified Yipes' global network expansion. Yipes further demonstrated forward thinking with its service level agreements and service delivery specific to targeted applications.

 

2007 Light Reading Person of the Year Finalists
This year, Leading Reading's Leading Lights Awards includes a new category - Person of the Year award. This award is intended to allow our readers to recognize one individual who contributed to the business of next-generation communications in a big way during 2007. In the three years since Scanlon's arrival at Yipes, the company has raised over 100 million in VC funding, turned EBITDA and cash flow positive and achieved a 40 percent rate of annual revenue growth. Scanlon also guided Yipes to focus on specific vertical markets — launching services and applications designed to address customer requirements in the legal, financial, and media sectors — and to expand its reach globally.

 

2007 MEF Finalists
The Metro Ethernet Forum recognizes the Service Provider of the Year for Outstanding Innovation and Best in Business. The judging panel selects enterprising and innovative service providers who demonstrate a strong global Carrier Ethernet offering.

 

2007 Communications Innovator Award for the "Most Innovative Carrier Ethernet Service (Pure-Play)" The Leadership Forum and awards program is a public recognition honoring service providers who implement cutting-edge solutions that offer innovative alternatives for customers while driving the telecommunications industry forward. Award recipients have demonstrated innovation and leadership within the industry.

 

The Banker Technology Awards 2007
The Banker Technology Awards annually recognize global innovation and excellence in the banking technology market. The Awards aim to recognize innovation in the way that solutions, service providers, and strategies enable financial institutions to address various business challenges. With the introduction of Yipes FinancialConnect!, Yipes has created an award-winning, first-ever Ethernet-based extranet for electronic trading and market data distribution.

 

NetworkWorld - The 50 Most Powerful People in Networking
Each year, Network World recognizes the fifty most influential and persuasive personalities giving shape to the network industry. Yipes' CEO, John Scanlon, joined other communications leaders on the 50 Most Powerful People List - Ed Whitacre (AT&T), Ivan Seidenberg (Verizon), Gary Forsee (Sprint Nextel) and Craig McCaw (Clearwire).

 

Light Reading's Leading Lights - Best New Service, Private Company
The Leading Lights program focuses on next-generation telecom technology and the business case for it. It also recognizes top executives at the leading public and private companies who have demonstrated a vision calculated to lead the industry forward. The Best New Service for a private company is awarded to the service provider or carrier that has deployed a market-leading, revenue-generating service based on next-generation telecommunications technology. If Ethernet services are to win the confidence of enterprise users, they'll need to prove themselves in the most demanding vertical sector of them all: finance.

 

Yipes has taken that challenge head-on with Yipes FinancialConnect!, an Ethernet-based extranet for electronic trading aimed at banks, brokers, and other financial institutions. It's already got dozens of customers.

 

San Francisco Business Times Fast 100 — Top 10
The annual "Fast 100 " program ranks privately-held Bay Area companies that represent the most innovative and enterprising engines of revenue growth during a three-year period. To be eligible, companies must have revenue of at least $200,000 in 2003 and an operating history of at least three years. All companies must have their headquarters and principal place of business in the Bay Area.

 

Heavy Reading - Ethernet Service Provider of the Year Award - Innovation
The Ethernet Service Provider of the Year for "Innovation" rewards the carrier showing bright new ideas not only in technology, but in sales and marketing as well. The award is based upon the carrier's ability to demonstrate a clear commitment to getting customers shifted onto next generation Ethernet connectivity services and applications, away from legacy services and making Ethernet more attractive with new technologies, more stringent SLA options and a choice of access methods (i.e., copper and fiber). Furthermore, the innovation award recognizes the company that has improved the customer experience by offering web service portals and has demonstrated solutions tailored for specific industry verticals.

 

Light Reading's Leading Lights — Top IPO or M&A Candidate Award Finalist
The Leading Lights program focuses on next generation telecom technology and the business case for it. It also recognizes top executives at the leading public and private companies who have demonstrated a vision calculated to lead the industry forward. A panel composed of Light Reading editors, Heavy Reading analysts and independent advisory board members that Light Reading invited from across the industry judged the awards. The Leading Lights Top IPO or M&A Candidate is awarded to the private company that most clearly has the management, products, and financial stability to launch a successful IPO or be acquired on its own terms within the next 12 months.

 

MEF - Service Provider of the Year Finalist
The Metro Ethernet Forum recognizes the Service Provider of the Year for Outstanding Innovation and Best in Business. The judging panel selects enterprising and innovative service providers who demonstrate a strong global Carrier Ethernet offering.

 

MEF - Service Provider of the Year - Outstanding Innovation
"Outstanding Innovation" for the service provider that demonstrates the most innovation in terms of current metro Ethernet service deployments and their 'metro Ethernet vision' for the future. Yipes was recognized for adopting Carrier Ethernet while finding imaginative ways to exploit its power and flexibility to integrate new service offerings with world-class business practice. The judging panel included Mark Fishburn, MEF Chairman; Ron Kaplan, IDC; Michael Howard, Infonetics Research; Brian Van Steen, RHK; Jeff Ogle, Current Analysis; and Stan Hubbard, Heavy Reading.