At Broadband Forum’s annual awards ceremony in Melbourne, Australia, Helge Tiainen, Business Development Director at InCoax Networks, was named one of the organization’s Outstanding Contributor recipients for 2025. The award marks the third industry recognition in just over a year linked to his contributions and InCoax-enabled broadband innovation. It reinforces InCoax’s technology leadership, global industry relevance, and commercial value in broadband access extension.
This follows two earlier recognitions in little more than a year. In March 2025, Helge Tiainen received a Broadband Forum Outstanding Contributor Award at the Forum’s Spring Member Meeting in Hong Kong. In October 2025, InCoax’s MoCA Access technology played a key role in Broadband Forum’s multi-tenant 5G FWA solution, which received “FWA Solution of the Year” at the Network X Awards in Paris.
Together, these recognitions highlight InCoax’s role in shaping standards-based broadband solutions that help operators extend high-performance broadband inside existing buildings faster and more cost-effectively. A key part of this work is TR-507, Broadband Forum’s architecture specification for multi-tenant 5G mmWave FWA, edited by Helge Tiainen of InCoax and Michael Timmers of Nokia. The architecture enables a shared 5G connection to be distributed over existing in-building coaxial networks.
“I am honored to receive this recognition from Broadband Forum,” said Helge Tiainen, Business Development Director at InCoax Networks. “Open standards are essential for scalable and interoperable broadband deployments, and it is valuable to contribute to work that helps the industry solve real deployment challenges. For InCoax, standards-based innovation supports both technical leadership and commercial value when extending both fiber access and FWA in existing buildings.”
For InCoax, this repeated recognition strengthens the company’s position in broadband access extension for MDUs and similar building environments worldwide. It also supports the company’s commercial case for solutions that combine high performance, fast deployment, and efficient reuse of existing in-building infrastructure.
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