Business Wire is the leading source for full-text breaking news releases, multimedia and regulatory filings for companies, and groups throughout the world. home.businesswire.com
Virtual Press Office is the leading on-line news management company offering innovative services to facilitate the communications process between high-tech firms and the media. Information is centralized under one roof to ensure that journalists, analysts, and industry consultants have the fastest and easiest access to the latest press releases, company backgrounders, white papers, and graphics from the world's premier high-tech companies. www.virtualpressoffice.com
Official PR Partner
BCS Public Relations is a U.K.-based specialist telecom and technology agency with a global client base. With a staff of 20, the agency provides full-service support, including expert consultancy, technical writing, and trade show support, as well as a full complement of marketing skills, for companies aiming to raise their media profile and grow sales. www.bcspr.co.uk
Analyst Sponsor
Telecom Strategy Partners is a consulting and market analysis company with operations in Europe and North America. It provides forward-looking qualitative market analysis and consulting services, focused on product and service strategy, management, and marketing, delivered by a team with significant real world experience in both vendors and service operators. For more information, please visit www.telecomstrategypartners.com
Media Sponsor
Cable and Satellite Europe's success lies in the fact that it has evolved with a fast-changing market. Now in its 25th year of publication, the magazine remains the top information choice for anyone who needs to stay at the forefront of the business of delivering video, voice and data.
Cable and Satellite Europe is written from a European perspective, exclusively for decision-makers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Above all, Cable and Satellite Europe provides authoritative and independent information and in-depth analysis of every aspect of the broadband and pay-TV industries today. www.informatm.com/cabsateurope.
CASADOMO.com — www.casadomo.com — is the world's leading Spanish spoken Digital Home Portal and Community. CASADOMO.com publishes daily news and articles. It offers a wide range of services such as library, video-library and a digital home dictionary. CASADOMO.com also includes Guides about products, companies, events, training and real estate projects. CASADOMO.com focuses on areas such as home automation, security, telecom, audio/video, entertainment and informatics related to the digital home. CASADOMO.com sends daily and weekly newsletters to its more than 40.000 active members. For more information, visit: www.casadomo.com.
Connect-World publishes editions for each of the world's major regions: Africa and the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, EMEA, Europe, Global, India, Latin America and North America.
Our writers are the people who know the ICT sector best: the leaders of industry, governments, international organisations, legal experts, bankers and their advisors.
Over 22,000 copies of each edition of Connect-World is delivered to the desks of the top decision-makers of leading international companies, telecom ministries, regulatory agencies, carriers, service providers, equipment manufacturers, satellite companies and others.
Written and compiled by an internationally renowned team of writers in the communications, IT and media marketplace, Convergence World informs and updates 10,500 senior executive decision makers by helping them to understand the full implications of the major commercial opportunities that convergence in all its various guises currently presents to their businesses. Convergence World aims to bring the highest quality to the reader through editorial opinion, news analysis, industry roundtables, sector features, reports, case studies, interviews with convergence industry leaders, new products, and viewpoint articles from industry commentators on a bi-monthly basis. www.convergenceworld.net
Read by corporate telecommunications professionals and senior technical management, European Communications (now approaching its 20th year of publication) is established as the leading journal addressing communications issues essential to the competitive success of network operators, service providers, content providers, carriers, OEMs, solution vendors, developers, and businesses active in the deregulating and rapidly expanding European communications marketplace. Visit www.eurocomms.com to subscribe free of charge to receive print or electronic quarterly issues of European Communications magazine; to register for our monthly e-newsletters, regular keyword alerts, and RSS feeds; and to check out the very latest information-updated daily-on the European telco community.
www.SubCableNews.com is a unique Newsletter for the whole industry involved in the submarine cable market, supplying the latest facts and comprehensive information about current and future projects and companies in this industry. Take advantage of the opportunity to be up to date with worldwide submarine cable ventures together with insider information and summarised press releases and publications.
www.SubCableNews.com is an online Newsletter, which is published once a month and only accessible via subscription.
Written for corporate and technical senior managers, TelecomsEurope brings quality in-depth coverage with context and analysis to wireless operators, fixed line carriers and other service providers, corporate and government end users, systems integrators and VARs, with an all European focus. Regular features including news analysis, telecorporate, product and technology, and newsmap, make sure that the hottest topics are brought straight to our readers desks in print and via our eNewsletter TelecomsEurope daily news. For more information, visit www.telecomseurope.net.
Associate Sponsors
The Broadband Forum mission is to develop the full potential of broadband. Focused on home to core network and management solutions, our standards empower providers to achieve more with their broadband deployment. Established in 1994 as the ADSL Forum and later as the DSL Forum, the Broadband Forum has seen its work over the past 14 years evolve from addressing physical layer ADSL transport specifications to advanced transport and management specifications for all forms of broadband. The Broadband Forum's formal BroadbandSuiteTM Release Program and all technical reports are publicly available at www.broadband-forum.org
ETNO is the voice of the European telecommunications network operators with over a decade of experience in shaping EU telecoms policy. The association represents 41 companies located in 34 European countries. They account for an aggregate annual turnover of more than 250 billion €, employ over one million people across Europe and account for more than 70% of total sector investment. For more information visit www.etno.eu
The Fixed-Mobile Convergence Alliance (FMCA) is a global, non-profit organization focused on providing today's and tomorrow's Convergence customers with high-quality, seamless and easy to use products and services. Representing a global base of over 700 million customers who stand to benefit from the development of Convergence products and services, its objective is to ensure, through collaboration with industry, that devices, access points, applications and underlying networks interoperate to deliver the best user experience possible. For more information please visit: www.thefmca.com
The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) is an open forum launched by Telcos in December 2004 with the aim to release specifications of the home gateway. The HGI specification 1.0 has been published in July 2006, with 2.0 updates and additions in September 2007 and both consolidated in the merged version of the "Residential Profile" specification for the Home Gateway published on January 2008.The HGI is boosting the market of home communication services and driving the development of residential gateways supporting the delivery of multiple-play services. HGI is a non-profit organization of approximately 70 worldwide key players (operators and vendors) in the broadband home domain. For more information visit www.homegatewayinitiative.org
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is the largest professional engineering society in Europe and the second largest of its type in the world, with 150,000 members worldwide. The Institution serves engineers and technologists working in an increasingly interdisciplinary, global and inclusive profession - providing technical and professional networks, journals, events and qualifications to meet the needs of today's technology industry. www.theiet.org
The IP/MPLS Forum is an international, non-profit association of service providers, equipment vendors, testing centers and enterprise users. The Forum's mission is to drive the global success of IP/MPLS-based technology, networks, and services while focusing on application and deployment solutions. For more information visit www.ipmplsforum.org
The IPv6 Forum is a world-wide consortium of worldwide leading Internet vendors, Industry Subject Matter Experts, Research & Education Networks, with a clear mission to advocate IPv6 by dramatically improving technology, market, and deployment user and industry awareness of IPv6, creating a quality and secure new Generation Internet and allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology, embracing a moral responsibility to the world. www.ipv6forum.com
The MEF is the pre-eminent organization dedicated to the worldwide adoption of Carrier Ethernet networks and services. The MEF is a rapidly growing global industry alliance comprising approximately 150 organizations including telecommunications service providers, cable MSOs, network equipment/software manufacturers, semiconductors vendors and testing organizations. The MEF develops Carrier Ethernet technical specifications and implementation agreements to promote interoperability and deployment of Carrier Ethernet worldwide. For more information including details of the MEF Certification Program please visit www.MetroEthernetForum.org.
The MPEG Industry Forum is a not-for-profit organization with the following goal: To further the adoption of MPEG Standards, by establishing them as well accepted and widely used standards among creators of content, developers, manufacturers, providers of services, and end users. www.mpegif.org/mpeg4/
The Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) is the leading professional organization promoting the advancement and commercial use of information and communication technologies, services, policies, and knowledge, to benefit its members and the people of the Pacific Hemisphere. www.ptc.org
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) is a non-profit professional association that provides technical leadership for the telecommunications industry and serves its members through professional development, standards, certification and information. Today more than 14,000 CTOs, engineers, system operation managers, technicians, and field operations personnel from the U.S. and 70 countries worldwide depend upon SCTE to deliver the tools they need to maintain their competitive edge.www.scte.org
The TM Forum is the industry association focused on transforming business processes, operations and systems for managing and monetizing on-line Information, Communications and Entertainment services. The Forum has almost 700 global members from across the converging industries of telecom, cable, media and the Internet. The Forum provides strategic leadership, business guidance, best practices, and pragmatic standards that empower companies to reduce costs, reduce time to market and improve service quality. For more information, please visit www.tmforum.org
The Wireless Communications Association International (WCA) is the world's premier association for wireless broadband, including but not limited to WiMAX. It hosts two annual conventions of industry leaders-in Washington, DC and Silicon Valley-and is particularly active in government relations on behalf of its 250 members from 6 continents For more information, visit www.wcai.com
The Wi-Fi Alliance is a global, non-profit industry association of more than 300 member companies devoted to promoting the growth of wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). Since the introduction of the Wi-Fi Alliance's certification program in March 2000, more than 4,000 products have been designated as Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™, encouraging the expanded use of Wi-Fi products and services across the consumer and enterprise markets. For more information, please visit www.wi-fi.org
