

Sponsors
Platinum Partners
The Network as a Platform – for the Connected Life.
Cisco plays an ever-expanding role in helping service providers transform their networks into efficient next-generation platforms capable of delivering many services to many screens. By bringing together entertainment, information, communication and personalization, service providers are competing to capture new subscribers and gain more revenue from existing ones.
The emergence of the network as a platform is changing the entire value chain and placing the network squarely at the center of innovation. The explosion of devices will be fueled by more and more services and tasks being handled online, from phone calls to personalized searches to downloading videos, games and other forms of entertainment.
The role of the network is emerging as a secure platform for delivering the customized and personalized experience that 21st century users expect - whether that means delivering new services as a carrier, boosting productivity for businesses of any size or consumers looking for real-time, personalized entertainment and services.
Cisco is leading the transition to a network-centric technology environment. By combining its core strength (IP) with intelligence, the company is creating a powerful platform that will serve as the basis for the convergence of data, voice, video and mobile communications in a secure, integrated architecture.
By enabling more content, mobility and capabilities than ever before, Intel gives you the advantage in a rapidly changing world. With advanced silicon building blocks, industry standard platforms, modular infrastructure solutions and ecosystem support, Intel can help you deliver a more compelling digital lifestyle. Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
Silver Partners
Headquartered in the UK with regional offices across the world, Aepona is at the forefront of the evolution towards better, more service-rich communications networks. Aepona's Universal Service Platform enables the Exposure and Exploitation of telecoms network resources, allowing telecommunications operators to rapidly deploy profitable new services across fixed-line, mobile and SIP/IMS networks. Aepona possesses a unique combination of expertise in both telecoms infrastructure and IT, and its solutions have been chosen by Tier 1 operators such as France Telecom/Orange, KPN, Sprint, TELUS, Vimpelcom, E-Plus, Eircom and Bridge Mobile Alliance.
Aepona offers 6 key propositions to telecommunications operators, underpinned by the company’s core product offering, the Universal Service Platform (USP). Based on standards such as Telecom Web Services, OSA/Parlay and SIP, the Universal Service Platform allows service creation and implementation to be carried out within the Service Network, independent from underlying network resources. This means that new services can be developed and readily deployed in multi-vendor environments, increasing innovation and reducing time to market. The Universal Service Platform hosts Aepona’s own suite of ready-to-deploy applications as well as those developed by carefully chosen partners, and has been pre-integrated with a broad range of network platforms from the major network equipment vendors.
Alcatel-Lucent's vision is to enrich people's lives by transforming the way the world communicates. Born with an unparalleled ability to offer end-to-end communications solutions to our customers, we are focused on enhancing client relationships and enriching the lives of people through communications. Expert, driven, intuitive, innovative, Alcatel-Lucent is the first truly global communications solutions provider, with the most complete end-to-end portfolio of solutions and services in the industry.
AssetHouse technology and expertise enables content service providers (CSPs) - such as fixed and mobile network operators, ISPs, broadcasters and media companies - to manage the delivery of digital content to multiple devices - TV, PC and mobile handset, through a single architecture.
The proliferation of on-demand media services is giving the new breed of digital consumer the power to access content anytime, anywhere and on any device. Until now, CSPs have relied on different and frequently incompatible legacy architectures to deliver the same content to multiple devices. As a result, the industry has been slow to react to consumer needs. AssetHouse's AssetServer™ platform provides a full digital product management capability, giving CSPs the tools to take full advantage of current consumer trends and retain a competitive edge as technology and lifestyles evolve.
Comverse, a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc., is the world's leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing services. The company's Total CommunicationSM portfolio includes value-added messaging, personalized data and content-based services, and real-time converged billing solutions. Over 500 communication and content service providers in more than 130 countries use Comverse products to generate revenues, strengthen customer loyalty and improve operational efficiency. For additional information, visit the Comverse website at www.comverse.com.
ip.access ltd solves in-building access problems for mobile operators, opening up new revenue streams while defending existing business.
Oyster 3G™ is the home access femtocell that dramatically improves 3G cell capacity, coverage, quality and cost structure. Oyster 3G is ready for today's mobile networks and tomorrow's IMS infrastructure.
nanoGSM picocell provides GSM, GPRS and EDGE coverage and capacity for offices, shops and using satellite backhaul passenger aircraft, ships and in remote rural areas.
With over 18 live networks around the world and many more being deployed, ip.access is the partner of choice for operators competing in the new converged marketplace.
LogicaCMG Telecoms Products helps the world's top network operators, service providers and content aggregators to increase revenues, enhance customer loyalty and capitalise on opportunities offered by convergence. LogicaCMG recently announced the sale of its Telecoms Products business to a consortium of private equity buyers, subject to employee consultation and regulatory approval. Once the transaction closes the Telecoms Products business will trade under the new brand, Acision.
Our recognised domain expertise in Intuitive Messaging, Intelligent Charging, Content Enablement and Customer Intelligence Management extends across our portfolio of propositions, products and services based on our global track record, business insight and unique technology platforms.
We enable our clients to serve over one billion customers in 135 countries across 6 continents.
- We deliver more than half of the world’s text and multimedia messages and serve three quarters of all videomail users.
- We were the first to enable management decision making based on real time analysis of subscriber behaviour.
- Our payment systems have processed over US$100 billion of revenues.
- We enabled TV show American Idol to interact with a record breaking 60 million voters, generating additional revenues and content sales.
Building on this proud heritage of assuring innovation, we continue to invent, evolve and deliver solutions that empower our clients to seize new opportunities.
Openet Telecom is a leading worldwide provider of event processing and transaction management solutions that enable service providers to maximize profitability, minimize deployment and management costs and ensure regulatory and partner requirements compliance. Our products - FusionWorks Mediation, FusionWorks Charging, and FusionWorks Real-Time Rating – and the solutions they enable, set the industry standard for availability, performance and scale in processing and management of network activity events and transactions in multi-service convergent environments.
With headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and offices in the United States, Singapore and Brazil and Malaysia, Openet Telecom has signed customers that include British Telecom, Cingular Wireless, StarHub, Orange Group, T-Mobile, TIM, Telstra, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone.
Additional information is available at www.openet.com.
Coffee Breaks Sponsor
Radialpoint is a leading provider of managed Internet services solutions for broadband providers. Its Value Added Services (VAS) are currently available to over 20 million broadband subscribers worldwide. Radialpoint's Services and Managed VAS Platform enable large and mid-size providers to generate new revenue and significantly lower operational costs associated with supporting and bringing new Internet services to market. Its customers include Bell Aliant, Bell, TELUS and Videotron in Canada; Adelphia, BellSouth and Verizon in the US; and, ONO, and Virgin Media in Europe. Radialpoint is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with offices in Europe.
For more information, visit www.radialpoint.com.
Associate Sponsor
jNetX is the Market Leader for standards-based Telecommunication Application Server technology. The jNetX Convergent Service Platform runs time-critical applications in wireline, wireless, 2G, 3G, Cable, IMS and WiFi/WiMax networks. The jNetX associated tools, components and methodologies address the full telecom service lifecycle, from development and testing to provisioning and management.
Solutions running on jNetX include Next-Generation of IN (such as Wireless Office, Prepaid), SCIM / Service Broker, SIP/ISC AS, Online Charging Front-End, Web Services Gateway, etc.
jNetX was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Dallas (USA) with offices in London (UK), Sophia-Antipolis (France), Bangkok (Thailand) and Moscow (Russia).
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