Richardson-based Mavenir Systems, a leading innovator of mobile infrastructure solutions for 4G LTE operators, received the prestigious Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award from industry analyst firm Frost & Sullivan for its outstanding practices in mobile messaging infrastructure throughout 2011.

“We are honored to be recognized as an innovative game-changer in the mobile infrastructure arena,” said Shubh Agarwal, Vice President of Marketing for Mavenir Systems. “Mavenir has worked diligently to provide operators with innovative solutions that support both legacy and next-generation mobile messaging.”

For the award, Frost & Sullivan evaluated a number of factors, including Mavenir’s growth strategy, degree of innovation with products and technologies, leadership in customer value and speed of response to market needs. The findings of Frost & Sullivan’s analysis overwhelmingly showed Mavenir as the industry frontrunner.

“Our research has shown Mavenir provides the Converged Messaging enabler to manage both SMS growth and introduction of IP based mobile messaging from the same platform.” says Brent Iadarola, Global Research Director at Frost & Sullivan. “This is important as operators transform their messaging network to position themselves to compete against a new set of over the top competitors.”