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List of sponsors 
If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities at this event then please contact:
Cecilia Lee, General Manager
Email: cecilia.lee@terrapinn.com
Tel: (+65) 6322 2730
Fax: (+65) 6226 3264
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Platinum Sponsor
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Virtela is a global network solutions company founded in 2000 with a vision that has proven revolutionary. Converge the capabilities and services of a business consultant, network aggregator and network integrator into one, and then wrap it in a one-of-a-kind, intelligent, high-performance, global platform available anywhere in the world.
Based in Denver, Colorado with sales and marketing offices throughout the world, Virtela provides managed network services, managed security services and business network consulting services with local support to more than 190 countries. The company was recently named the 12th fastest-growing technology company in North America by Deloitte and Touche.
Virtela's extensive customer base includes mid-to-large-sized enterprises across six continents and a multitude of industries, such as Hitachi, Deutsche Bank, Honeywell, Coca-Cola, IBM, Dun & Bradstreet, Daimler Chrysler and Saudi Aramco.
Virtela's unique multi-carrier architecture optimally routes customer traffic over best-in-class carrier networks around the world via proprietary performance-based algorithms. Virtela's automatic failover capabilities enable customer traffic to be dynamically re-routed around network congestion and failures, ensuring 100% network uptime. This award-winning approach is made possible by Virtela's close relationships with more than 200 carriers worldwide, bringing together the world's top networks into one seamless service. Virtela's proprietary intelligence layer can choose the best path for traffic, route around network issues, map disparate class-of-services between carrier networks, and provide customers the most aggressive service level agreements and pricing for connectivity to more countries than any single provider in the world.
Virtela's model has attracted partners worldwide who are leveraging Virtela to expand their service portfolios and network reach, including IBM Global Services, SingTel, and NTT. Virtela serves as a premier global delivery arm for out of region networking, providing single source access to best-in-class regional and global backbones for our partners’ customers, as well as a single source for procurement and installation of equipment and last mile access, high performance backbone transport, and ongoing maintenance and monitoring around the world.
In addition to its Denver headquarters, Virtela has a second Network Operations Center in Mumbai, India and a software development center in the Philippines.
For more information, please call +1 720-475-4000 or visit www.virtela.net.
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Silver Sponsors
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Ascade is the global market-leader in business operations systems for telecom carriers. Our solution, Carrier Cockpit Suite, enables carriers worldwide to increase profitability and revenue growth. It optimizes and automates all aspects of a carriers wholesale and bilateral business, while providing management with real-time business planning and steering capabilities.
Carrier Cockpit Suite, developed together with leading international wholesale carriers and incumbents, is the most mature and widely used carrier business operations system worldwide. Customers include Belgacom, Reach, Swisscom, Telenor Global Services, Czech Telecom, Elion, Finnet International, Sunrise and MobileOne.
Ascade AB is a privately held company owned by founders and leading Nordic investment firms CapMan, listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange, and SEB Fretagsinvest, the venture capital division of Nordic financial services group SEB, listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
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Cable & Wireless has an established international heritage with over 130 years of regional and international experience in the telecommunications market place. With capabilities that span 80 countries, Cable &
Wireless leverages national and international telecom expertise to deliver service excellence to carriers, mobile operators and service providers, delivering solutions to the top 12 international carriers, and ten of the top 12 revenue-generating mobile operators. Cable & Wireless is also the 5th largest international
voice carrier in the world with 7 billion minutes a year.
This level of activity is supported by the Cable & Wireless international network which includes half a million kilometres of cable and international satellite earth stations in key locations pointing at over 20 geostationary satellites, complimented by direct voice agreements with 180 operators in 110 countries around the world. Network World recently ranked Cable & Wireless as having a top performing ISP network backbone with zero downtime and perfect uptime. The scale, reach and reliability of our networks enable us to offer industry leading service level agreements (SLAs) that, in most cases, extend to the local loop.
Cable & Wireless has a consultative approach to supporting customers’ international strategies and delivers solutions that add value to customers through cost savings, market positioning and most importantly, revenue generation. For more information about Cable & Wireless, go to www.cw.com, and about Cable & Wireless IDC, please visit www.cw.com/jp
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FLAG Telecom, a member company of the Reliance Group (the “Group”), has an established customer base of more than 180 leading operators, including all of the top ten international carriers. FLAG owns and manages an extensive optical fibre network spanning four continents and connecting key business markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the USA. FLAG also owns and operates a low latency global MPLS based IP network, which connects most of the world's principal international Internet exchanges. FLAG offers a focused range of global products, including global bandwidth, IP, Internet, Ethernet and Co-location services. In the Group’s first international acquisition, FLAG Telecom became a Group company on 12 January 2004. Recent news releases and further information are on FLAG Telecom's website at: www.flagtelecom.com.
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Intel Consumer Electronics Group helps customers capture new opportunities created by the convergence of computing, communications and digital media.
The charter objective of Intel's Consumer Electronics Group is to be the leading supplier of media processing silicon building blocks and platform solutions to help the industry meet growing consumer demand for digital media and services shared throughout the digital home.
Intel Consumer Electronics Group helps its customers accelerate product development through the use of Intel(r) Architecture-based silicon building blocks, software and development tools, complemented by a robust ecosystem of hardware and software providers and backed by Intel's worldwide leadership in semiconductor design and manufacturing
integration.
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Bronze Sponsors
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Veraz Networks is the leading global provider of softswitch-based, toll-quality packet telephony solutions for traditional and next-generation communications networks. Built on a rich heritage of delivering carrier-class products to over 700 customers in 140 countries, Veraz offers complete solutions to established and greenfield carriers, and enhanced service providers worldwide through its softswitch, media gateway, and digital compression products. Leveraging open, best-of-breed components and a global support and service infrastructure, Veraz partners with customers to design and deploy carrier-class next-generation networks tailored to meet their business objectives. (http://www.veraznetworks.com)
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Telarix, the leading innovator of Interconnect Business Optimization software solutions, allows telecommunications carriers to maximize profitability by leveraging operational intelligence in near real-time. Telarix’s innovative platform, iXTools™, is a web-based solution that enables carriers with traffic and margin management, routing optimization, interconnect billing, auditing and reconciliation, and managing trade offers. Go to www.telarix.com for info.
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Luncheon Sponsors
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Detecon International GmbH is one of the leading independent corporate consultants for integrated management and technology consulting worldwide. The focus of Detecon’s services is on innovative consulting and implementation solutions resulting from the use of modern information and telecommunications technologies.
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TeliaSonera International Carrier, fully-owned by the TeliaSonera Group, provides wholesale, capacity and IP services to network and service providers. The services are based on the wholly-owned European and trans-Atlantic fibre network, and the IP network with peering points in Europe and in the US. The international voice business is focused on international interconnect agreements and bilateral routes. (www.detecon.com)
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Document Bag Sponsor
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Open Transit is France Telecom wholesale’s brand of services that connects Asian carriers to the world. It provides quality Bandwidth, Internet, Voice and Mobile solution to bandwidth suppliers, ISPs, carriers and switch-based resellers.
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Lanyard Sponsor
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Telecom Italia Sparkle, a wholly owned subsidiary of Telecom Italia SpA, was established on January 1st, 2003 with the objective of developing and consolidating the Italian Group’s international wholesale business.
Telecom Italia Sparkle is a full service provider, offering a complete range of solutions spanning voice services, IP, bandwidth and managed data services for fixed-line and mobile operators, ISPs and, in synergy with Telecom Italia, for multinational corporations. Telecom Italia Sparkle means networks, technological platforms and a worldwide commercial presence, in order to provide the best cost, top performance services to the main players of the international telecommunications market. The company runs a proprietary, advanced and global-reaching international network made up of three regional systems, deployed in Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and Latin America, in order to guarantee the availability of its own infrastructure in those areas where Telecom Italia Sparkle is concentrating its commercial focus. In September, 2003 Telecom Italia Sparkle and Germany’s T-Systems (Deutsche Telekom Group) announced a major commercial cooperation agreement regarding joint development of wholesale voice and data/IP services for selected international markets.
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Speed Networking Sponsor
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Intec is a leading Business and Operations Support Systems (BSS/OSS) product vendor for fixed, mobile, MVNO and next generation networks (e.g. WLAN, 3G and IP), with more than 680 installations of its products worldwide in 470 customers. Intec is a market leader in billing, mediation, mobile service charging and activation systems. For the year ended 30 September 2004, Intec reported revenues of £68.8 million, with adjusted net earnings after tax of £8.7 million. Intec’s customer base includes, among others, BellSouth, BellSouth Peru, Cable & Wireless, Cesky Telecom (Czech Republic), China Unicom, COLT Telecommunications, Deutsche Telekom, EBT (Taiwan), Eircom (Ireland), France Telecom, Hutchison 3G, Maxis (Malaysia), Nitel (Nigeria), Reliance (India), SingTel Optus (Australia), O2 Ireland, Orange, Telecom Argentina, Telecom Egypt, Telecom Italia, Tiscali, TPSA (Poland), Swisscom, T-Mobile International, Telefonica, Telia (Sweden), Telkom South Africa, Telstra, US Cellular, Westel (Hungary), Vodafone, VimpelCom (Russia), Virgin Mobile, Vivo (Brasil), XO Communications and Verizon.
For more information, visit the Intec website at www.intecbilling.com
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Associate Sponsors
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Australia Japan Cable – Connecting Australia, Asia and North America. The Australia Japan cable provides an exciting underwater communications highway further linking Australia to the rapidly expanding Internet and data world. Demand for high quality international bandwidth is growing at an unprecedented rate. In order to provide Australian and international carriers and other customers with an unparalleled combination of speed, quality and value, Australia Japan Cable (Holdings) Limited has built an international submarine optical fibre cable between Australia and Japan, with additional connectivity in Guam. In the Northern Hemisphere, high capacity, low cost information super-highways link North America, Asia and Europe. Australia is directly connected to these information super-highways via the 12,700 km Australia Japan Cable which was ready for service in late 2001. With a design capacity of 320 + 320Gb/s, the new cable is one of Australia’s main communications links with the emerging e-economy. The cable architecture, combined with the latest technology, ensures that customer demands for voice, high speed data and multimedia service capacity are met at competitive prices.
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NexTone develops carrier-grade products that provide scalable session management of voice over IP (VoIP) and other real-time services. NexTone's portfolio of core and edge session management technologies enables service providers and carriers to interconnect their voice networks in the most simple and cost effective way. (www.nextone.com)
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NTT Communications is a subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation (NYSE: NTT) - one of the world's largest telecommunications companies. NTT Com provides high-quality, technologically advanced network management, security and solution services to consumers, corporations and governments on a global basis, with a special focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Its world-class backbone network, combined with the networks of partner companies around the world, offers access to more than 200 countries. NTT Com Group has more than 30 companies in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and the Americas. The company has garnered several awards for its leading edge technologies, outstanding performance and customer service, including "Best Global Carrier - 2004." For more information, please visit www.ntt.net
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Rostelecom is Russia's national long-distance telecommunications operator. The Company owns and operates a nationwide digital trunk network that is unique in scale. We play a critical role in enabling the provision of telecommunications services in every region of the Russian Federation.
Rostelecom has been transformed over the past few years into a financially strong and efficient organization that is responsive to the demands of the marketplace. The Company has been a leader in establishing good corporate governance and corporate social responsibility programs. Rostelecom's strategy is to further strengthen its competitive position and profitability, playing an active role in the growth and reform of the Russian telecommunications industry. (www.rt.ru/en)
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Sonus Networks, Inc., is a leading provider of voice infrastructure products for the new public network. Our proven solutions enable service providers to quickly and effectively deploy an integrated network capable of carrying both voice and data traffic, and to deliver a range of innovative, new services. Sonus was founded in 1997 in Westford, Massachusetts with the primary goal of building carrier-class network solutions which address the movement of telephony into the next generation. (www.sonusnet.com)
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