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Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of Seamless Mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you get and stay connected simply and seamlessly to the people, information, and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and delivering ’must have’ products, ’must do’ experiences and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $35.3 billion in 2005. For more information about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit www.motorola.com. |
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Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including two robust wireless networks serving 53.1 million customers at the end of 2006; industry-leading mobile data services; instant national and international walkie-talkie capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. |
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Alvarion is the largest WiMAX pure player, ensuring customers’ long term success with fixed and mobile solutions for the full range of frequency bands. Based on its OPEN™ WiMAX strategy, the company offers superior wireless broadband infrastructure and an all-IP best-of-breed ecosystem in cooperation with its strategic partners. Alvarion boasts over 200 commercial WiMAX deployments worldwide (www.alvarion.com).
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Juniper Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers a high-performance network infrastructure that creates a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. This fuels high-performance businesses. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.
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Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of communications services. The company provides a complete, well-balanced product portfolio of mobile and fixed network infrastructure solutions and addresses the growing demand for services with 20,000 service professionals worldwide. The combined pro-forma net sales of €17.1 billion in fiscal year 2006 make Nokia Siemens Networks one of the largest telecommunications infrastructure companies. Nokia Siemens Networks has operations in some 150 countries and is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. It combines Nokia's Networks Business Group and the carrier related businesses of Siemens Communications.
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Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world’s most critical information. Serving both service provider and enterprise customers, Nortel delivers innovative technology solutions encompassing end-to-end broadband, Voice over IP, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband designed to help people solve the world’s greatest challenges. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com.
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Redline Communications is the leading provider of standards-based wireless broadband solutions. Its RedMAX™ WiMAX Forum Certified™ systems, which include the world’s highest capacity base station, and award-winning RedCONNEX™ family of wireless infrastructure products enable organizations to cost-effectively deliver high-bandwidth services. Redline is committed to its wireless industry leadership with the continued development of WiMAX and other advanced wireless broadband products. With more than 75,000 installations in 80 countries, 130 trials and deployments, including 44 profit-generating commercial networks, and a global network of over 140 partners, Redline’s expertise helps organizations roll out wireless broadband networks to support advanced voice, video and data communications.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in telecommunication, semiconductor, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2007 consolidated sales of US$103.4 billion. Employing approximately 150,000 people in 134 offices in 62 countries, the company consists of five main business units: Telecommunication Network Business, Digital Media Business, LCD Business, Semiconductor Business, and Digital Appliance Business. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of mobile phones, digital TVs, memory chips, and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com |
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Aperto Networks enables service providers to profitably deliver wireless voice and broadband services by building the worlds most advanced WiMAX base stations and subscriber units. Aperto fundamentally changes the economics of delivering voice and broadband services through IP-rich, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint networks, allowing carriers to offer a wider variety of services to more customers using less equipment. Its carrier-class WiMAX Forum Certified technology offers industry-leading subscriber density, quality of service, ease of use and reliability.
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Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking, providing the broadest line of solutions for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings, across campuses or globally. Cisco is recognized as a pioneer, using the Internet to provide customer support, sell products, offer training and manage finances. The tradition of innovation continues as Cisco creates leading products and key technologies to make the Internet more useful and dynamic in the years ahead.
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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.
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picoChip, located in Bath, England, is dedicated to providing innovative, flexible wireless solutions to help equipment makers minimize time-to-market, costs, and system power consumption.
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POSDATA is an early pioneer in mobile WiMAX core technology development and standardization, and a key contributor to WiMAX Forum. Leveraging its industry-wide awareness in wireless IP, applications and networks, the company has unveiled FLYVO, a brand for ground-breaking 802.16e compliant Mobile WiMAX end-to-end solution. Full in-house development of IP-OFDMA based mobile WiMAX products has been finished and commercially launched in 2007, with a migration path toward Wave 2 Mobile WiMAX and IEEE802.16m systems.
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SEQUANS Communications is a leading supplier of fixed and mobile WiMAX semiconductors, providing base station and subscriber station system-on-chips with both MAC and PHY layers.
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Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices GmbH & Co KG is a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens AG. The company, with its headquarters in Munich, Germany, focuses on the design, development, manufacturing and distribution of a range of high-quality products under the brand Siemens Gigaset. This includes classic cordless and fixed-network phones, Voice over IP devices, routers, gateways and software solutions. The portfolio also includes WIMAX devices as well as home media products such as set-top boxes. The company operates worldwide with its primary production site in Bocholt, Germany, where the Gigaset products are developed and manufactured under the most stringent quality and environmental standards.
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Telsima Corporation is a leading developer and provider of WiMAX based Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) and mobility solutions for media rich applications. Telsimas technologies offer service providers economic advantages of disruptive cost structures, new business models and more capital efficient network investment profiles. The Company has been an active Principle Member of the WiMAX Forum since 2004 and is backed by leading Silicon Valley investors. Telsimas headquarters are in Santa Clara, California with corporate sales, marketing and support office in New Delhi (India) and design centers in Bangalore (India) and Ljubljana (Slovenia). |
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Airspan Networks provides wireless broadband data and VoIP solutions for the WiMAX markets. Its wireless products serve more than 400 operators around the world. Airspan also offers professional support services to facilitate the optimal deployment and operation of its systems. Airspan is on the Board of the WiMAX Forum.
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Alcatel-Lucents vision is to enrich peoples lives by transforming the way the world communicates. Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved adjusted proforma revenues of Euro 18.3 billion in 2006 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. [All figures exclude impact of activities to be transferred to Thales].
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Beceem Communications Inc. is the leading provider of semiconductor solutions for the mobile broadband market, and the first with commercially available terminal chipsets for the wave 1 and wave 2 profiles of the WiMAX Forum, that are based on the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.beceem.com.
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Bridgewater Systems develops the industry's most advanced subscriber-centric policy management software for fixed, mobile and converged networks. Its solutions help service providers launch new services faster and maximize profits by creating a subscriber-centric policy decision point to control and monetize the dynamic subscriber interaction with IP-based services. Bridgewater Systems' proven carrier-class products help service providers enrich the subscriber experience, enable extensive revenue capture capabilities and out-of-the-box value deployable in weeks - instead of months. More than 90 leading service providers trust Bridgewater's technology and business insight to help them deliver world-class services.
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Cedar Point Communications simplifies wireline and WiMAX delivery of VoIP and multimedia. Cedar Point's integrated SAFARI C3 Multimedia Switching System provides carrier-class performance and reliability, while increasing network integrity, security and privacy.
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Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ/TASE: CRNT) is a leading provider of high-capacity Ethernet and TDM wireless backhaul solutions for cellular and fixed wireless operators, enterprises and government organizations. Ceragon leads the market in IP backhaul, offering unique, native IP solutions enabling efficient, robust connectivity required for next generation mobile, WiMAX and converged networks. Ceragon’s FibeAir® solutions are deployed by over 150 service providers and hundreds of private networks, in nearly 100 countries. For more information: www.ceragon.com.
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Comsys develops the industrys leading integrated digital baseband solutions for Mobile WiMAX, UMTS, EGPRS (EDGE), GPRS and GSM networks. Comsys offerings range from system IP for multimode 3G cellular terminals to a fully mobile WiMAX baseband processor (802.16e) offered to silicon and handset manufacturers. Comsys evolution to 4G includes an OFDM/A baseband processor with a flexible architecture and low power consumption, designed to support both TDD/FDD mobile WiMax versions, and future 3GPP-LTE. Companies such as Texas Instruments, Quanta Computers and Datang Microelectronics choose Comsys to benefit excellent performance, accelerated time-to-market and reduced silicon costs.
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DesignArt's WiMAX SoC architecture integrates all base station processing systems in a single-chip design for femto, pico, and micro cells, as well as sectorized BTS and PTP designs. The DAN2400 with embedded zero-cost backhaul and WiMAX mesh capability improves spectral efficiency, and drastically lowers the TCO for WiMAX infrastructure deployments.
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Connect fixed and mobile services to your network fast with DragonWave's portfolio of products for wireless carrier networks. Build your own network, with lowest CAPEX and OPEX. DragonWave's products offers unprecedented scale, improved economics and simplified operations. Upgrading your networks to new technologies such as WiMAX or 3G? DragonWave's products meet the network requirements of pseudowire and Ethernet backhaul with point-to-point radios providing scalable, ultra-low latency, native Ethernet connectivity up to 1.6 Gbps in both licensed and unlicensed spectrum.
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Fujitsu Network Communications Inc. is an innovator and strategic partner with over 20 years of experience as a leading provider of wireline and wireless networking solutions. With the support of Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702), a $53B company with approximately 160,000 professionals in 70 countries, Fujitsu provides best-in-breed data networking solutions that drive next-generation access, core, and wireless networks. The Fujitsu BroadOne WX300 macrocell WiMAX base station won the Best of WiMAX World EMEA 2008 Award for System Design and will be on display in booth #811. For more information on Fujitsu fixed and mobile WiMAX products, please visit http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/telecom/WiMAXProd.html
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GCT Semiconductor is a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets innovative integrated circuit solutions for the wireless communications industry. With its proven CMOS radio frequency (RF) and SOC expertise, GCT provides state-of-the-art CMOS RF transceivers, CMOS single-chip Satellite-DMB digital receivers and leading-edge WiMAX solutions serving the portable, mobile 3G and 4G market segments. GCT’s technologies offer mobile handset and wireless portable device manufacturers significant savings in component cost, as well as low power consumption and smaller footprint.
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Huawei Technologies is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world. Huawei’s products and solutions are deployed in over 100 countries and serve 35 of the world’s top 50 operators, as well as over one billion users worldwide. For more information, please visit www.huawei.com.
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NextWave Wireless provides next-generation mobile multimedia and wireless broadband technologies to leading mobile handset manufacturers, consumer electronics manufacturers and wireless service providers. Focused on 4G, NextWave offers "No Compromise," low-power, integrated mobile WiMAX silicon, delivering improved performance, reduced power consumption, advanced application usage, and seamless roaming across global WiMAX spectrums.
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Proximetry provides carrier-class network and performance management solutions for wireless networks to enable network operators to visualize, provision, and actively manage their networks in real time.
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SOMA Networks is a leading developer of Mobile WiMAX Systems that enable carriers to profitably deliver high margin packages of broadband access, carrier-class VoIP and multimedia applications to residential and SoHo markets.
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Starent Networks is a leading provider of infrastructure solutions that enable mobile operators to deliver multimedia services to their subscribers. Starent has created solutions that provide network functions and services, including access from a wide range of radio networks to the operator’s packet core network. Starent’s products integrate multiple network functions and services needed for the delivery of advanced multimedia services, such as video, Internet access, voice-over-IP, e-mail, mobile TV, photo sharing and gaming.
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Texas Instruments is the only semiconductor provider that supports the WiMAX market with solutions spanning from handsets to CPE to infrastructure. As a leader in OFDM-based technologies, the company has a long history of successful deployments. TI offers a robust portfolio of end-to-end digital and analog products for WiMAX applications including high performance DSP, optimized analog front end, spectrum-spanning RF, complete software libraries and time-saving development tools - including an AMC development board. By addressing the complete signal chain, TI enables OEMs to leverage their existing 3G designs to quickly develop products. With 4 out of the top 4 WiMAX infrastructure OEMs shipping TI technology, TI is spurring deployment of WiMAX or 802.16 d/e services.
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WiChorus provides of a new class of intelligent and massively scalable platform for WiMAX and 4G core networks. Leveraging this platform, the company’s Intelligent Access Services Network (ASN) Gateway & Home Agent provide advanced service & subscriber management, service aggregation, content management and network optimization. WiChorus enables fixed and mobile service providers to deploy scalable WiMAX networks, capitalize on service differentiation opportunities and streamline capital and operational costs.
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ZTE USA Inc., headquartered in Dallas Texas, is a wholly owned subsidiary of ZTE Corporation, a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions. ZTE USA is focused on developing a strong North American presence with its ALL-IP CDMA2000 1x EV-DO CDMA2000 network solutions, 3G handsets and data cards, and WiMAX equipment.
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ZyXEL Communications, Inc. headquarters in Anaheim, CA is one of the foremost suppliers of secure broadband networking, Internet connectivity since 1989. ZyXEL will be showcasing MAX 100, MAX 200 series WiMAX CPEs, winner of Best of WiMAX World. |
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Altair is a fabless semiconductor company that is developing state of the art, ultra low power mobile WiMAX silicon solutions optimized for handsets and handheld devices. Altairs products are the smallest, lowest power solutions in the industry, offering superb mobility performance and enabling the migration of WiMAX from a fixed wireless PC technology to a true next generation mobile technology.
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ArrayComm LLC, a Ygomi company, is the leader in multi-antenna signal processing (MAS) software for wireless systems. ArrayComm's A-MAS software improves network economics and user experiences through gains in coverage, client data rates, and capacity for all wireless communications protocols, in base station, client device, or MIMO architectures. A-MAS implementations include W-CDMA, HSDPA, WiMAX, PHS, GSM and HC-SDMA networks and are operating in more than 300,000 commercial deployments today. For wireless equipment manufacturers, tapping ArrayComm's unmatched experience in MAS applications enables significant performance and time-to-market advantages while reducing development cost and technical risk.
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Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. provides performance-driven WiMAX solutions for networking and communications markets.
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Radical consolidation of network infrastructure is achievable through the Sun Unified Network Platform which leverages Sun's Chip Multi-Threading architecture, available as either ATCA or rack servers, with: Logical Domains virtualization technology, the Sun Netra Data-Plane Software Suite providing the packet processing capability required for data plane applications, the Sun Netra System Management for platform management, and the Sun Netra High Availability Suite for SAF-compliant carrier-grade high availability middleware. |
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