Below are a sampling of the 2002 product and service awards Agilent has received.

Internet Telephony magazine (January 2003)

Internet Telephony has awarded Agilent's Voice Quality Tester (VQT) Responder its prestigious Product of the Year award. This annual award highlights the best products from companies with a commitment to quality.

T he VQT Responder allows network operators to lower test costs for deploying large Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks, when used in conjunction with Agilent's Voice Quality Tester. The Responder can be operated remotely, increasing productivity among network engineers and reducing the cost of test by simplifying testing and troubleshooting of global voice networks. Read more...

Red Herring's "Most Likely to Change the World" List

In its sixth year, The Red Herring 100 is an annual survey of “everything that is great about technology, innovation, and entrepreneurial capitalism.” As the magazine puts it, producing this list “means seeking those companies that are bent on overcoming theoretical scientific limits and are capable of building sound business models from their developments.”

This year, Agilent joined that remarkable list for the first time, as "a market leader in the testing and measurement of equipment used to manufacture optical components” that has “finessed the manufacturing process for nanoelectronic and nanooptical components.” Read more...

Ned Barnholt Receives AeA Medal of Achievement (October 2002)

The AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association) awarded Agilent President and CEO Ned Barnholt its prestigious Medal of Achievement on October 17, 2002 in San Jose, Calif. The AeA -- the largest high-tech industry association -- presents the Medal of Achievement annually to recognize an individual who has made significant contributions to the high-tech industry and to the community at large.

In accepting his award, Ned recognized the men and women of Agilent. "This award," he said, "recognizes their accomplishments, their creativity and their support. I'm proud to accept it in that spirit." Read more…

Agilent is Awarded Cisco Supplier Award for Second Straight Year (October 2002)

Cisco Systems Inc. has named Agilent as this year's recipient of their Optics Manufacturing Award. Agilent is one of the leading optical transceiver suppliers to Cisco, and having won the Cisco President's Award for supplier of the year in 2001, is the first company to win Cisco supplier honors in consecutive years.

The manufacturing awards are presented in several product categories, and are given to acknowledge companies that routinely exceed expectations in key areas, such as flexibility and responsiveness, technology, value, quality, and service and support.

Powerwave Top Supplier Award (September 2002)

Powerwave Technologies, a leader in power amplifiers for cellular base stations and one of the Electronic Measurements Group's (EMG) most important customers, named Agilent one of its top suppliers for 2002.
Agilent was the only test-and-measurement company honored by Powerwave. Powerwave buys a number of different microwave and radio frequency products from Agilent, with an emphasis on spectrum analyzers, signal sources and network analyzers.

Agilent Ranks #1 in Customer Satisfaction for Sixth Time (September 2002)

The Automated Test Group's Hachioji Semiconductor Test Division (HSTD) in Japan was ranked "top supplier" in the Semiconductor Process Diagnostic Equipment category of VLSI Research, Inc.'s 2002 Customer Satisfaction survey. VLSI, a U.S.-based market research company, conducts the worldwide survey annually, and this is the sixth year in a row that Agilent's semiconductor parametric test equipment has been #1.

Agilent had the best overall rating in the process diagnostics category, and the highest overall score when compared to the other four equipment categories surveyed.

Agilent Wins Two Excellence Awards from AEEMA (September 2002)

Agilent was presented with two prestigious awards at the Australian Electrical & Electronic Manufacturers' Association (AEEMA) Excellence Awards Gala Dinner 2002. Agilent won the "Excellence in Innovation" award and a joint award for "Excellence in Commercializing R&D." These awards were based on the achievements and caliber of products from Agilent's Data Networks Division that designs, manufactures and markets leading-edge test equipment for the telecommunications industry. Read more.

The annual AEEMA Excellence Awards recognize "excellence in a range of key industry activities, including commercializing R&D, smart manufacturing, exporting and environment". For more information on this award, see the Australian Electrical & Electronic Manufacturers' Association Web site.

Agilent India Ranked Test & Measurement Vendor of the Year (August 2002)

For the 2nd year in a row, Agilent India has won the Test and Measurement (T&M) Vendor of the Year by Voice & Data, India's leading publication on telecommunications and networking. According to the survey, Agilent tops the chart in the T&M space, with a turnover of US$25 million (Rs 116 crore) in the fiscal 2001-02 period. The magazine estimates that the company registered a 10-percent growth in its T&M business in the same period and said Agilent "has solutions that suit all telecom providers from design, network optimization, technology migration, and implementation."

Agilent IT wins Coveted Award From Computerworld (June 2002)

Computerworld magazine honored Agilent IT with its coveted 21st Century Achievement Award at ceremonies in Washington, D.C.

Computerworld's Honors Program awards are presented annually to exceptional organizations in recognition of the extraordinary quality of their work, its impact on society, and its contribution to the history of the information technology revolution.

Agilent Receives Celestica's Global Supplier Award for Fourth Straight Year (June 2002)

Agilent has been selected to receive a Partners in Performance award by Celestica Inc, a world leader in electronics manufacturing services. Agilent, which provides fiber optic transceivers and other semiconductor solutions to Celestica, has received this award four years in a row.

The Partners in Performance award is given to suppliers based on their ability to support Celestica's supply chain management objectives in the following areas: flexibility and responsiveness, impact on asset management, effectiveness and efficiency, and overall supplier performance.

Chic Technologies' Most Valuable Supplier Award (May 2002)

Taiwan’s Chic Technologies, makers of computer mice, speakers and game pads, has named Agilent Technologies its “Most Valuable Supplier” of 2001. SPG’s Personal Systems Business Unit has supplied optical mouse sensors to Chic since 1999. This is the first time a vendor was so honored by Chic. Agilent was presented the award because the quality of its products and services enabled Chic to satisfy its customers and meet its delivery, reliability and cost objectives.

Agilent's Performance Signal Generators Recognized as "Top Products of 2001" by Microwaves & RF Magazine (March 2002)

Microwaves & RF magazine recognized Agilent's series of performance signal generators (PSGs) as one of their "Top Products of 2001."

"We chose the Agilent PSG series because of its technological innovation and practical benefit to the engineering community," said Jack Browne, publisher and editor-in-chief of Microwaves & RF magazine. "The PSG series improves upon their predecessors in several areas, providing frequency coverage as wide as 250 kHz to 40 GHz, with low phase noise and high output power for handling a wide range of broadband commercial and military measurement applications."

SMT Magazine (February 2002)

Agilent has received SMT magazine’s SMT VISION Award for 2001’s Best New Product in Test. The award was given in recognition of the Agilent SJ50, an automated optical inspection system that accurately measures and characterizes components and paste at multiple positions along the surface-mount technology manufacturing line.

A panel of industry judges, completely independent of SMT magazine, selects the winners. The entire entry process is handled by a third-party marketing firm, including tabulation of the judges scoring before delivering all final results to SMT magazine. Read more...

Test and Measurement World Magazine (January 2002)

Test & Measurement World selected the Agilent 1680 and 1690 series logic analyzers as “Best in Test 2002” recipients and as finalists for Test Product of the Year 2002.

The Best in Test Awards are presented annually by the editors of Test & Measurement World. These awards honor important and innovative new products in the electronics test and measurement industry. Read more...

EE-Evaluation Engineer Magazine (January 2002)

EE-Evaluation Engineer magazine recognized Agilent Technologies in their annual survey "2001 Readers' Choice" award for the best product for the year. The best test and evaluation products are selected by their readers. Agilent walked away with the top honors for the PSA II Series of spectrum analyzers for the Communications Test category. Read more...

Logitech Supplier Award (January 2002)

Agilent was presented with a supplier award in recognition of its contribution to Logitech's success in the optical mouse and PC video markets. Agilent is the inventor, manufacturer and supplier of the optical navigation sensor that Logitech uses in its optical mice, and a key supplier of CMOS sensors for video applications.

Logitech Chief Executive Officer Guerrino De Luca remarked that his company had never before recognized a supplier in this way, but the accomplishments that have resulted from Logitech's partnership with Agilent merited such action. Citing Logitech's standing in the marketplace and its continued growth during rough economic times, Guerrino commented, "We wouldn't be in this position without Agilent." Read more...

Internet Telephony magazine (January 2002)

Internet Telephony magazine has selected Agilent's NgN Analysis System as 2001 Product of the Year. Manufactured by the Telecom Systems Division within Operations Support Systems (OSS), the product is the industry's first next-generation IP telephony monitoring and management system.

The annual award honors innovative products and services that make a positive impact on the convergence of voice and data networks. Read more...