Axiata Digital Labs honoured with two TM Forum Catalyst Awards

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TM Forum’s Catalyst Awards recognize the world’s leading companies for their outstanding proof-of-concept solutions to challenges facing communications service providers and their technology partners

Axiata Digital Labs (ADL) recently announced that it was selected as a winner in two categories at the TM Forum Catalyst Awards 2021 for two separate Catalyst Projects.

TM Forum announced the Catalyst Award winners during the final day of the Digital Transformation World Series (DTWS) global event. Honouring the innovation and impact of its members on the industry, TM Forum declared nine Catalyst proof-of-concept projects as Outstanding Catalysts for their significant contributions to the acceleration of digital transformation throughout the industry.

Axiata Digital Labs, one of Asia’s fastest-growing and most innovative digital transformation enablers, participated in two winning catalyst projects, “Cross-industry marketplace for CSP collaboration, Phase 3” and “Measurements of Trust in AI. Axiata Digital Labs was recognized in the 2021 Catalyst Team Award in the Visionary Impact and Sustainability Leadership categories respectively.

The Visionary Impact category recognizes the Catalyst that demonstrates the most compelling business potential. ADL’s winning project, Cross-industry marketplace for CSP collaboration, Phase 3, explores a new collaborative approach for vendors, CSPs and other parties to work together to quickly roll out a 5G Open RAN network and develop an enterprise use case.

The project builds on the marketplace framework for application sharing to enable new 5G deployment and development models. Axiata Digital Labs was recognized with a Catalyst Award for Phase 1 of the project at Digital Transformation Asia in 2019. This project was conducted in participation with CSG, GETREVE, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and championed by Axiata Group Berhad, Dialog Axiata, Robi Axiata, and Smart Axiata.