ASSIA Awards
ASSIA Selected as a Red Herring Top 100 Global
December 12, 2011The Red Herring Global 100 Award win capped off a banner year for ASSIA after a number of major achievements, including increased industry recognition, substantial growth and world-class innovation. This prestigious recognition honors the world’s most audacious and far-reaching private technology companies and entrepreneurs for 2011.
ASSIA Wins Broadband InfoVision 2011 Award at Broadband World Forum 2011
September 28, 2011
Beating out competition from Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei, and ZTE, ASSIA won the Broadband InfoVision 2011 award for Broadband Access Network Technologies and Services – Fixed, with its flagship product, ASSIA DSL Expresse. The award was presented to ASSIA CEO Dr. John Cioffi at the Broadband InfoVision Gala Dinner Awards ceremony, taking place during the Broadband World Forum 2011 tradeshow in Paris.
ASSIA Selected as a Red Herring Top 100 North America Tech Startup
June 16, 2011
After carefully evaluating hundreds of applicants, the editorial staff at Red Herring selected ASSIA as a winner of the Red Herring Top 100 North America Tech Startup Award for its innovations and outstanding achievements in telecommunications. ASSIA joins a prestigious group of leaders and innovators recognized by Red Herring for their most promising new business models, including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Skype.
Frost & Sullivan 2011 Global Customer Value Enhancement Award
Independent research firm Frost & Sullivan named ASSIA as the recipient of the 2011 Global Customer Value Enhancement Award in High-speed DSL Optimization. Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices research concluded that ASSIA has distinguished itself in the large-scale, high-speed, dynamic management of DSL networks.
Light Reading's Hall of Fame: The First Five
November 3, 2010Dr. John Cioffi, Chairman and CEO of ASSIA Inc. was named one of the first five inaugural members of the Light Reading Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame celebrates individuals whose contributions have shaped the modern telecom industry, or whose impact simply cannot be ignored.
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2010 Economist Computing and Telecommunications Award - John Cioffi, ASSIA, Inc.
Dr. John Cioffi, Chairman and CEO of ASSIA Inc. is the Economist magazine’s recipient of the 2010 Computing and Telecommunications winner for his advances in Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology.
Tom Standage, Digital Editor at The Economist said, “John Cioffi is a prolific innovator, with more than 400 papers and over 100 patents to his name. Dr Cioffi continues to improve the speed of Internet links through ASSIA, a company that helps telecoms operators tune the performance of their DSL lines. His incredible tenacity in promoting the idea of DSL is an example to innovators everywhere, and has more than earned him this recognition.”
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2006 Marconi Prize - John Cioffi, ASSIA, Inc.
Dr. John Cioffi, Chairman and CEO of ASSIA Inc. and Hitachi America Professor at Stanford University, is the recipient of the 2006 Marconi Prize.
The Marconi Prize is awarded yearly by the Marconi Society to “individuals who have made groundbreaking contributions in communications technology that have benefited humanity, thus perpetuating the spirit and work of Guglielmo Marconi.” Read More >

