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Corning invented the first low-loss optical fiber in 1970,
which helped launch the age of optical communications.
Corning is the worldwide market leader and is the most
widely deployed brand of fiber. Corning offers a full line of
single-mode and multimode optical fibers for all network
applications. Corning’s entire family of optical fiber boasts
industry-leading geometrical properties for low splice
loss and high splice yields, supported by an unparalleled,
proprietary manufacturing process designed to produce the
highest quality products. Corning fibers are recognized in the
industry for their excellence and innovation.
Telenor Global Services (TGS) is an international mobile carrier
focusing on quality wholesale voice, mobile and connectivity
services. We are part of the Telenor Group - one of the
world’s major mobile operators with 150 million subscribers
globally. Our head office is located in Norway. In addition,
we have sales offices in 9 countries worldwide. TGS exist to
help customers get the full benefit of our communication
services. We provide highly reliable services to our quality
focused partners, both mobile operators and carriers.
Telenor Global Services is an associated member of the
GSMA and fully supports the Global Roaming Quality (GRQ)
recommendations provided by this association.
To learn more about TGS please visit www.telenorglobal.com
Visa is a global payments technology company that
connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and
governments in more than 200 countries and territories
to fast, secure and reliable electronic payments. We
operate one of the worldís most advanced processing
networksóVisaNetóthat is capable of handling more
than 30,000 transaction messages a second, with fraud
protection for consumers and assured payment for
merchants. Visa is not a bank and does not issue cards,
extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visaís
innovations, however, enable its financial institution
customers to offer consumers more choices: pay now
with debit, ahead of time with prepaid or later with credit
products. For more information, visit corporate.visa.com
.
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE:
RKUS) is a global supplier of advanced wireless systems for
the rapidly expanding mobile Internet infrastructure market.
The company offers a wide range of indoor and outdoor
“Smart Wi-Fi” products to mobile carriers, broadband service
providers, and corporate enterprises, and has approximately
24,400 end-customers worldwide. Ruckus technology
addresses Wi-Fi capacity and coverage challenges caused by
the ever-increasing amount of traffic on wireless networks
due to accelerated adoption of mobile devices such as
smartphones and tablets. Ruckus invented and has patented
state-of-the-art wireless voice, video, and data technology
innovations, such as adaptive antenna arrays that extend
signal range, increase client data rates, and avoid interference,
providing consistent and reliable distribution of delay-sensitive
multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi.
For more information, visit www.ruckuswireless.com.
Ruckus, and Ruckus Wireless are trademarks of Ruckus
Wireless, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All
other product or company names may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
NEC is a leading global provider of innovative and integrated
IT and networking solutions, delivering a complete portfolio
of mobile and broadband networking infrastructure,
innovative technologies and proven applications that meet
the complex and changing needs of our customers. NEC’s
Solutions enables carriers to seize the opportunities of the
emerging next era in telecommunications, without delay,
with minimum investment, and with carrier grade security
and quality. We have the key to a business transformation
that builds a continuous stream of new revenue.
China Communications Services (Hong Kong) International
Limited (CCSI) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China
Communications Services Corporation Limited (CCS), a
company listed on the Main Board of HKEX (HK.552). We
provide integrated solutions, one-stop services and turn-key
projects for MNOs, MNVs, MNCs and so on. Our service
involves all kinds of telecommunication industry value chain
including telecommunication network design, network
construction, network maintenance, multi-vendor network
management and so on. We have constructed the ICT
Backbone Network in Tanzania. We have also built the world’s
highest altitude wireless base station in the Himalayan
Mountains and the most remote earth satellite receiving
stations in South Pole. Besides, we have successfully
installed over 36,000km of cables under the sea like China
– US, Asia Pacific Gateway. Now we have 40 subsidiaries
all around the world, performing our business in over 60
countries in Asia, Africa, South America and others.
Comverse® is a leading global provider of telecom business
solutions that enable communication service provider success
in the hyper-connected world through service innovation and
smart monetization. The company’s proven and innovative
product portfolio includes BSS, Policy Management (PCRF) and
Enforcement and Digital & Value Added Services – all backed
by Managed and Professional Services. Comverse’s extensive
customer base spans more than 125 countries with solutions
successfully delivered to over 450 communication service
providers serving more than two billion subscribers. Comverse’s
solutions are available in a variety of delivery models, including
on-site, cloud, hosted/SaaS and managed services. For more
information, visit www.comverse.com.
HP helps the world’s CSPs transform the way they do
business – to grow in a fast-changing market. CSPs must
meet the huge demand for new services and streamline
internal operations. HP is unmatched in its ability to help
CSPs drive transformation: 30+ years of telecom experience,
global IT leadership, expertise in entertainment, and
leadership in consumer devices.
HP offers a truly end-to-end portfolio from core network to
handheld devices – including a suite of convergent IT and
Telecom solutions, such as: software (OSS/BSS, SDP, SDM,
cloud); professional services including business consulting,
integration, and managed services/outsourcing; joint go-tomarket
programs; carrier-grade servers; storage; printers;
tablets and smartphones.
Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions
of people around the world with information every day.
Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page
and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all
major global markets. Google’s mission in Africa is to make
the internet an integral part of every day life in Africa, by
increasing it’s relevance and usefulness, eliminating access
barriers for potential users, and developing products that
are meaningful for the countries in the region. Google is
headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the
Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia.
For more information, visit www.plus.google.
com/+GoogleAfrica/, see our Africa Blog, www.google-africa.
blogspot.com/ or follow us on Twitter twitter.com/googleafrica
Citrix ByteMobile Smart Capacity solutions enable mobile
network operators to increase available network capacity by
30% to 50%, to improve quality of experience (QoE) for their
subscribers on an individual basis and to differentiate service
plans in order to better monetize over-the-top content.
The T-Series Adaptive Traffic Management System is the
industry’s only fully integrated traffic management system –
delivering adaptive web and video optimization, DPI, caching,
load balancing, analytics and policy control in an integrated,
centrally managed architecture for efficient and streamlined
deployment of multi-Tbps-scale traffic management across
the mobile network.
Oberthur is one of the world leaders in the field of secure
technologies. Smart cards: One of the world’s leading
providers of security and identification based on smart card
technology and associated services, such as personalization,
for the mobile, payment, identity markets Secure printing:
3rd private security printer, specializing in high security for
the production and management of banknotes, passports
and other identity documents Cash protection: World leader
in equipments for smart cash transportation and ATM
protection Listed on Euronext Paris, Oberthur benefits from
an industrial and worldwide commercial presence.
RFS is a global designer and manufacturer of cable and
antenna systems plus active and passive RF conditioning
modules, providing total-package solutions for wireless
infrastructure. A leading innovator in outdoor and indoor
wireless infrastructure solutions.
RFS serves OEMs, distributors, system integrators, operators
and installers in the broadcast, wireless communications,
land-mobile and microwave market sectors.
As an ISO 9001 & 14001 compliant organization with
manufacturing and customer service facilities that span
the globe, RFS offers cutting-edge engineering capabilities,
superior field support and innovative product design.
ACE is a consortium of telecom operators from Africa and
Europe under the initiative and leadership of France Telecom.
The Consortium is constructing a 17,000 km long fibre optic
submarine cable system stretching from France to South
Africa and planned to connect 23 countries directly for
coastal countries and indirectly through terrestrial links for
landlocked countries like Mali and Niger. The ACE system,
which will be operational in the half of 2012, has a design
capacity of 5.12 Tbps and supported by the new 40 Gbps
wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology that
would accommodate tomorrow’s ultra-broadband networks.
Helios Towers Africa (HTA) is the leading independent
telecom towers company in Africa.
HTA builds and manages shared telecom infrastructure,
delivering improved efficiency and reduced costs for
operators and their customers.
Helios Towers Nigeria, an affiliate of HTA that was launched
in 2005, was the first independent tower company in
Africa. In 2010, HTA pioneered Africa’s first sale/leaseback
transaction with the acquisition of Millicom’s network of
tower sites in Ghana.
HTA currently owns and manages 4,700 towers and has
operations in Ghana, Tanzania, DRC and a sister company in
Nigeria, with new operations under development in several
other African markets.
Gemalto is the world leader in digital security with 2012
annual revenues of €2.2 billion and more than 10,000
employees operating out of 83 offices and 13 Research &
Development centers, located in 43 countries.
We are entrusted by over 450 mobile operators from around
the world to manage their subscribers as well as enabling
new business models by connecting to new services
from beyond the tradition telecom eco-system. We bring
deep security expertise and rich software innovation to
mobile communication services as a pioneering provider of
identification, transactions and optimization solutions for
wireless consumer devices and industrial machines. Our
embedded software and secure products together with our
powerful platforms and services help mobile operators and
various service providers to maximize new services adoption
and optimize their operational efficiency.
Our vision is to ensure that handsets can be used with a host
of services, bringing convenience and security. Our solutions
and services cover the entire spectrum ranging from mobile
payment, operator billing, mobile banking, mobile marketing,
LTE services management, subscription and device
management, roaming solutions, personal cloud services,
mobile ID and signature solutions, M2M.
Gemalto thrives with the growing number of people using
its solutions to interact with the digital and wireless
world. For more information visit www.gemalto.com, www.
justaskgemalto.com, blog.gemalto.com, or follow @gemalto
on Twitter.
Tektronix Communications is uniquely positioned as the
communications industry’s first Telecommunications
Intelligence Provider (TIP) offering both service assurance
and monitoring and network intelligence solutions that
uniquely cover all four dimensions of the service provider’s
environment: subscriber behavior, the services and
applications they consume, the network environments
they occupy and the technologies that enable them. Our
comprehensive set of assurance, intelligence and test
solutions and services support a range of architectures and
applications such as LTE, HSPA, 3G, IMS, mobile broadband,
VoIP, video and triple play. Tektronix Communications is
headquartered in Plano, Texas. Visit us online at www.
tekcomms.com
Intersec is the leading software vendor enabling telecom
operators to derive value from their network big data and to
facilitate VAS innovation. Through its disruptive technology,
Intersec solutions empower MNOs with real-time customer
value management, mass scale LBS monetization and
augmented messaging profitability. Acclaimed by 60+ MNOs,
Intersec technology enhances the experience of several
hundred million subscribers worldwide and manages over a
billion of smart events day after day.
Neotel is a telecommunications network operator that
caters for wholesale, business and home customer needs.
We deliver services that reduce the cost of doing business
through the optimal use of advanced technologies. We are
South Africa’s first converged telecommunications network
operator. This means that voice, data and Internet is now
offered over a single connection.
We provide a range of value-added voice, internet and
data services for business, wholesale network operators,
network providers and consumers. In other words from the
telephone handset at home to the data centres that have
become the epicentres of local and international business.
Additional services include Virtual Private Networks, hosting
and satellite services. Our various telecommunications
licences, Electronic Communication Network Service License
and Electronic Communication Network License, allow us
to provide the entire range of telecommunications services.
Neotel covers all major metropolitan areas of South Africa.
Our coverage expands on a regular basis. Diversity – South
Africa’s strength is reflected in our shareholding. United
in purpose, our shareholding embodies vast global as well
as local telecoms experience, giving us greater impetus to
achieve our objectives. Our strategic equity partner, the Tata
Group of India – through VSNL and Tata Africa Holdings Pty
(Ltd) – brings immense expertise derived from its worldwide
telecommunications operations. This partnership gives
Neotel access to international best practice and the latest
technical innovations.
Nexus Connexion, our Black Economic Empowerment (BEE)
equity partner, has a broad based constituency which
includes women and youth groups. Developmental NGOs,
labour unions and businesses are represented by individuals
and corporates. One private consortia –Communitel brings
additional international and African experience through their
various shareholders, including TelecomNamibia.
Procera Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: PKT) delivers industry-leading
network intelligence for millions of broadband connections
worldwide. Procera’s PacketLogic and NAVL solutions enable
carrier, service provider, enterprise, and consumer networks
to deliver a high quality of experience to their users through
actionable intelligence and sophisticated policy enforcement.
For more information, visitwww.proceranetworks.com or follow
Procera on twitter at @ProceraNetworks.
Giesecke & Devrient’s smartcard-based solutions, software,
and services secure your mobile life. Our customers include
banks, credit card companies, mobile network operators,
service providers, public transport companies, and OEMs or
Enterprises.
A global leader in Over-the-Air (OTA) management software
we provide mobile operators with improved understanding
of subscribers and lifecycle management of SIMs, terminals,
and applications. Our software and services enable
trusted solutions for secure mobile authentication. Acting
as a neutral hub within the NFC ecosystem, we provide
commercial-grade application management and provisioning
services. Our years of OTA experience uniquely position us
for remote management of M2M SIMs and modules.
For more information, please visit www.gi-de.com
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing
innovation. The company designs and builds the essential
technologies that serve as the foundation for the worldís
computing devices. Additional information about Intel is
available at www.newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com.
COLLAB (www.collab.pt) was founded in 2003 by
experienced call centre technology professionals.
Anticipating a technology revolution in the industry with the
widespread adoption of Internet Telephony, COLLAB started
developing 3G contact centre solutions specifically targeted
to Network Service Providers and Wireless Operators.
COLLAB has built OneContact, a robust IP telephony platform
for managing customer interactions seamlessly across
all media including voice, video, e-mail, sms and instant
messaging. The commercial launch of OneContact happened
in 2005. Since then, OneContact is delivering results in
dozens of customers in multiple sites, spread over three
continents.
COLLAB is a privately-held company with Novabase as a
majority shareholder. Established in 1989, Novabase is
the largest Portuguese IT company. With more than 2100
employees in 2011, Novabase has two main business
divisions: Novabase Consulting (IT Consulting, Systems
Integration and Application Outsourcing) and Novabase
Engineering Solutions (IT Infrastructures, Interactive TV,
Ticketing, Access Control, Telecommunications Products and
Infrastructures Outsourcing). Novabase has been listed on
the Euronext Lisbon since July 2000. For more information on
Novabase visit www.novabase.pt.
Clickatell is a global leader in mobile messaging and
transaction services, which enable its customers to connect,
interact and transact with their business partners and
communities on the mobile phone.
Clickatell’s global footprint means that it can deliver short
message services (SMS) through it’s next-generation
Clickatell Message eXchange (CMneXt) to over 860 mobile
networks in over 220 countries and territories, with the
potential to reach 6 billion mobile phone users - more than 80
percent of the world’s population. In addition, with Clickatell
Transaction eXchange (CTX), it provides the essential link
between mobile consumers and their financial institution,
with services like airtime top-up.
More than 15,000 enterprise, government, medium and
small business customers and application developers have
embraced Clickatell’s technology solutions. Founded in 2000,
Clickatell is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif. To learn
more, visit www.clickatell.com
The WiMAX Forum® is an industry-led, not-for-profit
organization that certifies and promotes the compatibility
and interoperability of broadband wireless products based
upon IEEE Standard 802.16. The WiMAX Forum’s primary goal
is to accelerate the adoption, deployment, and expansion
of WiMAX technologies across the globe while facilitating
roaming agreements, sharing best practices within our
membership and certifying products. WiMAX Forum
Certified® products are interoperable and support broadband
fixed, nomadic, portable, and mobile services. The WiMAX
Forum works closely with service providers and regulators to
ensure that WiMAX Forum Certified systems meet customer
and government requirements. For more information, visit
www.wimaxforum.org.
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