Global Telecoms Business (GTB) is a website and magazine written specifically for the senior managers who run telecoms carriers worldwide. GTB recognizes the most innovative projects in the industry annually. SARDANA Project, with participation of Instituto de Telecomunicações, was awarded in the 2011 edition of GTB Inovation Awards. SARDANA is a 7th FP STREP project (proj. no. 217122), that targets the performance enhancement of dense Fibre-to-the-Home networks, also called PONs (Passive Optical Networks).