Soon after accepting a Best in Test award for the MDO4000, Chris Loberg (left) of Tektronix returned to the stage to accept the Test Product of the Year award from Martin Rowe, senior technical editor at Test & Measurement World.

The Test Product of the Year is the Best in Test winner that receives the most overall votes. For 2012, the winner is the MDO4000 series of mixed-domain oscilloscopes from Tektronix. The MDO4000 series includes a built-in spectrum analyzer that allows design engineers to look at time-correlated analog, digital, serial, and RF data and gain a complete system view of their devices.

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The annual Test of Time award is presented to a product that continues to provide state-of-the-art service more than five years after its introduction. As Spirent’s flagship test platform for testing networks, TestCenter is employed by network equipment manufacturers, service providers, and enterprises that are employing the Layer 2-7 IP and Ethernet technologies required to deliver any application over any network and on any device. Spirent TestCenter, introduced in 2005, is a unified performance test platform that can sustain growth across many fast-growing industries, including virtualization, cloud computing, mobile backhaul, enhanced packet core, and high-speed Ethernet.

To see the other finalists for this award, go to tot.tmworld.com/finalists

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Brad Davis, left, accepted the Test Engineer of the Year award from Matthew Friedman, Senior Product Manager for Automated Test at National Instruments. National Instruments sponsors the annual award, and donates $10,000 to an engineering program chosen by the winner.

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Best in Test: Multimeters, Optical and Network Test, Oscilloscopes, PHY Test

Best in Test: RF/Microwave Test, Semiconductor Test, Signal Analyzers, Signal Sources, Source-Measure Instruments