Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of Seamless Mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you get and stay connected simply and seamlessly to the people, information, and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and delivering ’must have’ products, ’must do’ experiences and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $35.3 billion in 2005. For more information about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit www.motorola.com.
Premier Sponsors
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved adjusted proforma revenues of Euro 18.3 billion in 2006 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. [All figures exclude impact of activities transferred to Thales].
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world’s most critical information. Serving both service provider and enterprise customers, Nortel delivers innovative technology solutions encompassing end-to-end broadband, Voice over IP, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband designed to help people solve the world’s greatest challenges. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com.
Redline Communications is the leading provider of standards-based wireless broadband solutions. Its RedMAX™ WiMAX Forum Certified™ systems, which include the world’s highest capacity base station, and award-winning RedCONNEX™ family of wireless infrastructure products enable organizations to cost-effectively deliver high-bandwidth services. Redline is committed to its wireless industry leadership with the continued development of WiMAX and other advanced wireless broadband products. With more than 75,000 installations in 80 countries, 130 trials and deployments, including 44 profit-generating commercial networks, and a global network of over 140 partners, Redline’s expertise helps organizations roll out wireless broadband networks to support advanced voice, video and data communications.
Telsima Corporation is a leading developer and provider of WiMAX based Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) and mobility solutions for media rich applications. Telsimas technologies offer service providers economic advantages of disruptive cost structures, new business models and more capital efficient network investment profiles. The Company has been an active Principle Member of the WiMAX Forum since 2004 and is backed by leading Silicon Valley investors. Telsimas headquarters are in Santa Clara, California with corporate sales, marketing and support office in New Delhi (India) and design centers in Bangalore (India) and Ljubljana (Slovenia).
Platinum Sponsors
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking, providing the broadest line of solutions for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings, across campuses or globally. Cisco is recognized as a pioneer, using the Internet to provide customer support, sell products, offer training and manage finances. The tradition of innovation continues as Cisco creates leading products and key technologies to make the Internet more useful and dynamic in the years ahead.
Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of communications services. The company provides a complete, well-balanced product portfolio of mobile and fixed network infrastructure solutions and addresses the growing demand for services with 20,000 service professionals worldwide.
picoChip, located in Bath, England, is dedicated to providing innovative, flexible wireless solutions to help equipment makers minimize time-to-market, costs, and system power consumption.
Wavesat is a leading supplier of award-winning fixed and mobile semiconductors enabling system manufacturers to be first to market with innovative, high performance and cost effective solutions.
Gold Sponsors
Aperto Networks enables service providers to profitably deliver wireless voice and broadband services by building the worlds most advanced WiMAX base stations and subscriber units. Aperto fundamentally changes the economics of delivering voice and broadband services through IP-rich, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint networks, allowing carriers to offer a wider variety of services to more customers using less equipment. Its carrier-class WiMAX Forum Certified technology offers industry-leading subscriber density, quality of service, ease of use and reliability. For more information, go to www.apertonet.com.
ArrayComm LLC, a Ygomi company, is the leader in multi-antenna signal processing (MAS) software for wireless systems. ArrayComm’s A-MAS software improves network economics and user experiences through gains in coverage, client data rates, and capacity for all wireless communications protocols, in base station, client device, or MIMO architectures. A-MAS implementations include W-CDMA, HSDPA, WiMAX, PHS, GSM and HC-SDMA networks and are operating in more than 300,000 commercial deployments today. For wireless equipment manufacturers, tapping ArrayComm’s unmatched experience in MAS applications enables significant performance and time-to-market advantages while reducing development cost and technical risk.
BluWan was founded end 2005 as a spin-off of the Thales group and is based in Paris. It has developed a unique Multimedia Wireless System, called Fibre Through The Air™, operating on Giga Hertz spectrum, able to offer fibre-like speed at considerable lower total cost of ownership and faster time-to-market. The system can be deployed to implement both ultra broadband wireless last mile access and the backbone of wireline and wireless access networks.
A leading provider of high-capacity wireless IP backhaul solutions for cellular and fixed wireless operators, enterprises and government organizations. FibeAir® product family is a scalable, future-proof solution for wireless transport of broadband services.
Knightsbridge International Telecommunications Holding (Knightsbridge Telecom) is an Austrian company with a mission to boost penetration of high quality multimedia broadband services in CIS and Eastern Europe. Knightsbridge Telecom is investing into the deployment of "Emerging telecommunications technologies" to facilitate the development of communication, infrastructure, transit and backhaul services.
Proximetry provides real-time network and performance management solutions for multivendor, multifrequency, multiprotocol wireless networks to enable operators to visualize, provision, and optimally manage their networks. AirSync, the company’s carrier-class software, gives municipal, public safety, energy, transportation, and enterprise network operators as well as carriers and other service providers the ability to dynamically monitor and manage traffic, devices, users, applications and services. Powered by patent-pending technology, AirSync offers network-wide visualization and control from a single system to ensure reliable and predictable wireless network performance. Founded in January 2005, Proximetry is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California.
SEQUANS Communications is a leading supplier of fixed and mobile WiMAX semiconductors, providing base station and subscriber station system-on-chips with both MAC and PHY layers.
Servista is a leading provider or OSS and BSS Managed Service solutions for the telecommunications market. Servista delivers solutions for WiMAX, broadband and wireline customers.
Radical consolidation of network infrastructure is achievable through the Sun Unified Network Platform which leverages Sun’s Chip Multi-Threading architecture, available as either ATCA or rack servers, with: Logical Domains virtualization technology, the Sun Netra Data-Plane Software Suite providing the packet processing capability required for data plane applications, the Sun Netra System Management for platform management, and the Sun Netra High Availability Suite for SAF-compliant carrier-grade high availability middleware.
Tranzeo Wireless Technologies Inc. is an industry leader in custom designing, manufacturing and distributing technically advanced wireless point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radios, WiMAX equipment, and mesh network solutions. Tranzeo is designed for wireless internet service providers, governments, campuses, military, carriers, enterprise customers, and systems integrators around the globe. We offer wireless Broadband equipment available in the 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless spectrums and use direct sequence spread spectrum technology for robust connectivity and long-range performance.
WiTech, founded on October 2003 as a Spin-off of the University of Pisa, has become shortly one of the most interesting reality in the Next Generation Networks/Next Generation Services (NGN/NGS) scenario, with a focus on Broadband Wireless Access ( BWA) based on standard technologies like WiFi (IEEE.802.11), WiMAX (802.16d/e) , MBWA (IEEE 802.20), HSDPA/HSUPA, EV-DO, LTE ( 3GPP Log Term Evolution) and DVB-H. Thanks to its in-depth expertise, WiTech provides its customers with high added-value services, from strategic consulting on investment plans to the Radio Frequency Planning for deployment projects. The company is also engaged in various R&D activities and the implementation of innovative decision support tools and specialized OSS/BSS components, like the software tool TEA, for the realization of detailed technical-economic analysis, and the management platform WROP, for broadband services in a multi-technology access scenario. Since January 2006, the company is a Regular Member of the WiMAX Forum and Member of the Telemanagement Forum since January 2007. Thanks to its team and national and international partnership, WiTech is continuously aiming at innovative projects and seeking international expansion.
Pre-Conference Workshop Sponsor
Redline Communications is the leading provider of standards-based wireless broadband solutions. Its RedMAX™ WiMAX Forum Certified™ systems, which include the world’s highest capacity base station, and award-winning RedCONNEX™ family of wireless infrastructure products enable organizations to cost-effectively deliver high-bandwidth services. Redline is committed to its wireless industry leadership with the continued development of WiMAX and other advanced wireless broadband products. With more than 75,000 installations in 80 countries, 130 trials and deployments, including 44 profit-generating commercial networks, and a global network of over 140 partners, Redline’s expertise helps organizations roll out wireless broadband networks to support advanced voice, video and data communications.
Official Evening Cocktail Reception Sponsor
Proximetry provides real-time network and performance management solutions for multivendor, multifrequency, multiprotocol wireless networks to enable operators to visualize, provision, and optimally manage their networks. AirSync, the company’s carrier-class software, gives municipal, public safety, energy, transportation, and enterprise network operators as well as carriers and other service providers the ability to dynamically monitor and manage traffic, devices, users, applications and services. Powered by patent-pending technology, AirSync offers network-wide visualization and control from a single system to ensure reliable and predictable wireless network performance. Founded in January 2005, Proximetry is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California.
WiMAX Internet Zone Sponsor
Investec structures and provides debt and equity financings for a wide variety of transactions in the sector. In addition to the specialists in London we work closely with our teams in Johannesburg, Sydney and Toronto. We fund new technology implementations and network roll-outs based on new licenses both in mobile and in broadband. We provide acquisition and development finance, and fund expenditures based on contracts and assets. We pride ourselves in being innovative, flexible and fast. We can arrange and hold senior and mezzanine debt as well as equity if required and are active in countries rated “BB” and above around the globe. Recent areas of involvement include:
Broadband backbone and enterprise customer infrastructure
Mobile infrastructure and equipment finance
Sub sea cable
WiMax technology and network financing
Attendee Bag Sponsor
Connect fixed and mobile services to your network fast with DragonWave’s portfolio of products for wireless carrier networks. Build your own network, with lowest CAPEX and OPEX. DragonWave’s products offers unprecedented scale, improved economics and simplified operations. Upgrading your networks to new technologies such as WiMAX or 3G? DragonWave’s products meet the network requirements of pseudowire and Ethernet backhaul with point-to-point radios providing scalable, ultra-low latency, native Ethernet connectivity up to 800Mbps in both licensed and unlicensed spectrum.
Coffee Break Sponsor
Knightsbridge International Telecommunication Holding (Knightsbridge Telecom) is an Austrian company with a mission to boost penetration of high quality multimedia broadband services in CIS and Eastern Europe. Knightsbridge Telecom is investing into the deployment of "Emerging telecommunications technologies" to facilitate the development of communication, infrastructure, transit and backhaul services.
Contributing Sponsors
Altair is a fabless semiconductor company that is developing state of the art, ultra low power mobile WiMAX silicon solutions optimized for handsets and handheld devices. Altairs products are the smallest, lowest power solutions in the industry, offering superb mobility performance and enabling the migration of WiMAX from a fixed wireless PC technology to a true next generation mobile technology.
Beceem Communications Inc. is the leading provider of semiconductor solutions for the mobile broadband market, and the first with commercially available terminal chipsets for the wave 1 and wave 2 profiles of the WiMAX Forum, that are based on the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard. For more information, please visit the companys website at www.beceem.com.
DesignArt Networks' System-on-Chip platform for integrated access and backhaul solutions enables 4G everywhere, while substantially lowering the total cost of ownership of the 4G radio access network.
Investec structures and provides debt and equity financings for a wide variety of transactions in the sector. In addition to the specialists in London we work closely with our teams in Johannesburg, Sydney and Toronto. We fund new technology implementations and network roll-outs based on new licenses both in mobile and in broadband. We provide acquisition and development finance, and fund expenditures based on contracts and assets. We pride ourselves in being innovative, flexible and fast. We can arrange and hold senior and mezzanine debt as well as equity if required and are active in countries rated “BB” and above around the globe. Recent areas of involvement include:
Broadband backbone and enterprise customer infrastructure
Mobile infrastructure and equipment finance
Sub sea cable
WiMax technology and network financing
Mobile Broadband Business Sponsor
QUALCOMM Incorporated is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on CDMA and other advanced technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., QUALCOMM is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a 2007 FORTUNE 500® company traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market® under the ticker symbol QCOM.
