List of Sponsors

Gold Sponsor

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

Silver Sponsor

Network Without Limits.
NexTone Delivers Endless Possibilities of Next Generation Services.
 
NexTone provides intelligent, secure next generation IP and IMS network interconnects that enable new revenue streams from VoIP and multimedia services. Our technologies enable a common way to exchange, secure, monitor, control, and bill for voice and multimedia sessions flowing through IP networks, giving IP networks operators instant connectivity and quality compatibility to rapidly add new revenue-generating services including real time data, video and interactive gaming, and fixed-mobile convergence.

Service providers and other network operators are now able to take advantage of seamless, secure and scalable session connectivity between diverse IP and IMS networks. NexTone's IntelliConnectâ„¢ system includes both distributed edge intelligence and centralized management, which enables IP network operators to accelerate revenue by continually managing technical complexities, optimizing business economics, and eliminating partnership hurdles.

More than 500 service providers and enterprises worldwide use NexTone's solutions to dramatically lower capital expenditures and deliver ongoing operational efficiencies including reduced interconnect "turn-up" time and simplified network operations. Established in 1998 the company is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, with domestic and international sales offices worldwide. Visit www.nextone.com for more information.

Bronze Sponsors

Ascade is the global market-leader in Business Operations Systems for trading and exchanging voice traffic between telecom carriers. Our solution, Carrier Cockpit™ Suite, optimizes and streamlines all aspects of a carrier’s wholesale and bilateral business from buying and routing to selling and billing.

Our customers include Belgacom, Reach, Korea Telecom, Taiwan Fixed Network, MobileOne, Swisscom, Telenor Global Services, Czech Telecom, T-Croatia Telecom, Allstream, Sunrise, Telecom Slovenia, Elisa, Telekom Austria and more. Contact our Asia Pacific head office at sales_APAC@ascade.com or visit http://www.ascade.com/ today.

Founded in 1996, iBasis (NASDAQ: IBAS) is a leading wholesale carrier of international long distance telephone calls and a provider of retail prepaid calling services. iBasis customers include many of the largest telecommunications carriers, including AT&T, Verizon, China Mobile, China Unicom, IDT, Qwest, Skype, Telecom Italia, and Telefonica. iBasis carried 7.8 billion minutes of international voice over IP (VoIP) traffic in 2005, and is one of the largest carriers of international voice traffic in the world.

Veraz (www.veraznetworks.com) is a leading global provider of IP softswitches, media gateways and digital compression products that enable voice, video and other multimedia services over IP. Wireline, broadband and wireless service providers in over 50 countries deploy Veraz’s innovative product suite to transport, convert and manage voice and multimedia traffic over both legacy and IP networks. Veraz helps service providers quickly and efficiently migrate from traditional voice networks to all-IP, fixed-mobile and multimedia networks consistent with emerging IMS standards.

Document bag sponsor

France Telecom is a world-class carrier serving nearly 150 million customers in 220 countries and territories. With R&D investments of over 591 million euros in 2005 and nearly 8000 patents, the group delivers content-rich, innovative and easy-to-use fixed, mobile, Internet and bandwidth solutions under the Orange and France Telecom brands.

The group prides itself on taking a proactive approach to anticipating technological shifts and evolutions in consumer behavior by promoting a new experience of telecoms. Created in 2006, France Telecom's Technocentre is a perfect example of this new philosophy. It brings together R&D, networks and IT and strategic marketing teams to maintain close dialogue with customers and pursue the development of innovative services. This commitment allows the group to create solutions that truly add value: the world's first wideband VoIP service, Unik, a handset that seamlessly transfers mobile communications to Wi-Fi networks for unlimited VoIP calling...To answer the growing demand for content services, France Telecom also continues to enrich its wide portfolio of movie, music, TV and gaming services with new licensing agreements with production companies and music labels. Visit www.francetelecom.com/wholesalesolutions for more information.

Luncheon Sponsors

Deutsche Telekom's International Carrier Sales & Solutions unit (ICSS) is a full service provider, offering a complete range of wholesale solutions and services for mobile and fixed operators, and Internet Service Providers, who are looked after locally via a global sales network. Deutsche Telekom is one of Europe's largest telecommunications company and one of the leading carriers worldwide.  The basis for ICSS' comprehensive Service Offering Portfolio (Voice, IP, Mobile Solutions and Transport Solutions) is an expanding ultra-modern infrastructure - Deutsche Telekom’s international network.

For further information, visit www.deutschetelekom.com/icss

Reliance Communications is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (Reliance ADA Group) and is India's foremost integrated telecommunication company. It has over 30 million Indian and 1 million    global individual consumers. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 600 Indian and 250 multinational corporations and through its subsidiary, FLAG Telecom, over 200 global carriers.

The company has a pan-Indian, next generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting best-of-class services spanning the entire Communication value chain.

Reliance – Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is an offshoot of the Reliance Group which was founded by Shri Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932-2002). It ranks among India’s top three private sector business houses in terms of net worth. The group has business interests that range from telecommunications (Reliance Communications Limited) to financial services (Reliance Capital Ltd.) and the generation and distribution of power (Reliance Energy Ltd.)

TransTeleCom is the intra-continental capacity supplier focused on providing the best latency and high quality wholesale transit and access services to international operators at the shortest Europe – Asia route using advantages of the largest national-wide and fully redundant network in Russia and international partners’ links.

Today TransTeleCom’s fiber optic network exceeds 50,000 km and consists of over 960 national points of presence (PoPs). The company established several international gateways and PoPs in London and Stockholm. TransTeleCom’s network reaches borders of Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Baltic States, Finland, Mongolia and China.

TransTeleCom provides services to Carriers, ISPs and large corporations including capacity, access to the Internet, IP VPN MPLS and VoIP in the domestic market.

Participating Sponsor

Corrigent Systems is the recognised leader in Packet Transport Switches (PTS).  They are used to 1) converge TDM and Data Services onto one transport element, 2) enable new services and 3) realize greater revenue and lower transport costs.  Corrigent supports millions of customers running video, voice and data while simultaneously performing backhaul for wireless traffic. Visit www.corrigent.com for more information.