Sponsor Profiles

Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss Verein, its member firms, and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is an organization of member firms around the world devoted to excellence in providing professional services and advice, focused on client service through a global strategy executed locally in nearly 150 countries. With access to the deep intellectual capital of 120,000 people worldwide, Deloitte delivers services in four professional areas – audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory services – and serves more than one-half of the world’s largest companies, as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, locally important clients, and successful, fast-growing global growth companies. Services are not provided by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Verein, and, for regulatory and other reasons, certain member firms do not provide services in all four professional areas.

With corporate offices in Palo Alto, California, Aricent is a full-service, full-spectrum communications software company. Aricent offers software services and products that enable the world’s leading communications equipment manufacturers, device manufacturers and service providers to improve time-to-revenue and maximize efficiency.  Aricent has more than 350 clients worldwide, including Airtel, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Inmarsat, Juniper, Lucent, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Texas Instruments, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone. For more information, visit aricent.com.

Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel’s technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries around the world. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com.

Proximetry provides carrier-class network and performance management solutions for wireless networks to enable network operators to visualize, provision, and actively manage their networks, especially to support mission-critical communications.  AirSync, the company's software solution, is the first comprehensive performance and network management tool that enables real-time, network-wide visualization, management, and active network control from a single system and location for multivendor, multifrequency, multiprotocol wireless networks. Powered by patent-pending technology, AirSync vastly improves network operations to guarantee service quality while optimizing the network for increased revenues, lower operating costs, and higher end-user satisfaction. Founded in January 2005, Proximetry is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California. For more information, please visit www.proximetry.com.

Sun Microsystems Inc., (NASDAQ: SUNW) is a global supplier of network computing solutions that power the world's most important markets and a leading provider of telecom infrastructure for over 20 years.   Our systems, software and services represent one of the most complete and proven carrier-grade portfolios on the planet. Sun's network computing infrastructure solutions are used in a wide range of industries including technical/scientific, business, engineering, telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, retail, government, life sciences, media and entertainment, transportation, energy/utilities and healthcare. A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

We focus on seeing ‘i2i’ with our customers – ‘individual to individual’ – rather than end-to-end. We see the importance of the subscriber over the technology, when expanding network capability and capacity and provide a full consultancy service at every stage of your network planning and development. Headquartered in the UK, with offices in 18 countries, our experience spans 10 years in 115 different countries, including more than 3 million hours working on 3G networks alone.

Beceem Communications Inc. was founded in October 2003 with the goal of building a wireless technology company offering semiconductor solutions for the wireless broadband market. The company combines an experienced management team with strong technology leadership and seasoned Silicon Valley investors. Beceem Communications is developing solutions incorporating advanced wireless communication techniques based on IEEE 802.16 standards recommendations. Beceem's technology is designed to surpass previously established spectral efficiency thresholds while providing excellent resistance to fading, multi-path and Doppler-shift required for use in wireless broadband applications. 

FotoNation® Inc. has established itself as a world-leading independent provider of embedded imaging and communication solutions for the digital camera industry. The company develops software solutions that enable imaging connectivity from digital cameras to PCs, cell phones, PDAs, websites, corporate servers, printers, digital imaging card readers, photo kiosks, and other related peripherals. Over 64 million digital cameras have been shipped with the company’s embedded imaging and connectivity technology. Clients include AOL, Canon, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, Microsoft, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, Samsung, Sanyo, and Sony, among others. In 2005, FotoNation literally wrote the standard for wireless photography by authoring the industry-adopted PTP-IP Specification, which is the basis of the international camera connectivity CIPA-005/2005 standard.

With over 80 years of experience in providing reliable, high-quality products to both corporate clients and general consumers all over the world, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation is a recognized leader in the design and manufacture of microwave, RF, and optical semiconductors and assemblies.  Our offerings for the WiMAX product space are geared to meet customers’ stringent power, linearity, and efficiency requirements with enabling GaAs HBT technology.  For more information please visit our website www.mitsubishichips.com   Mitsubishi, we put the POWER  <AMPs>  in WiMAX!

Research Partners

Founded in 1990 and headquartered in New York, ABI Research maintains global operations supporting annual research programs, intelligence services and market reports in broadband and multimedia, RFID & contactless, M2M, wireless connectivity, mobile wireless, transportation, and emerging technologies. For information visit www.abiresearch.com, or call +1.516.624.2500.  

Current Analysis provides Competitive Response solutions that enable companies to effectively anticipate and counter competitive threats, and win more business. This is achieved through the rapid delivery of tactical, actionable intelligence to help fast-paced companies compete in highly volatile markets, such as telecommunications, enterprise software and consumer electronics.

TDG provides research and advisory solutions for companies serving the connected home and new media markets. Using a unique think-tank approach that blends executive-level consultants and in-depth market research, TDG generates reasoned and pragmatic insights that help clients make more intelligent market decisions. TDG produces more than just research - we create Intelligence in Action®.

Maravedis is a leading research and analysis firm focusing on Broadband Wireless technologies including WiMAX, 802.20, TD-CDMA and Wireless Local Loop. The company has established itself over the years as the most credible and reliable resource for market intelligence in the BWA industry. Maravedis works directly with service providers, vendors, regulators and investors to produce a sound market analysis based on hard primary data and an in-depth understanding of technology, market and regulation trends. BWA Research UK Limited, the new European subsidiary will contribute in offering international clientele a better service based on their regional specific needs. www.maravedis-bwa.com.

Northern Sky Research (NSR) is an international market research and consulting firm specializing in telecommunications technology and applications. NSR primary areas of expertise include satellite and wireless networks, emerging technology, and media applications. Our services and clients cover the entire globe. With extensive expertise in all geographic regions and a number of telecommunications sectors, NSR is a leading provider of in-depth market insight and analyses. Since each NSR product is based on future perspectives, our analyses allow our clients to stay a step ahead of the competition and plan for future opportunities in all markets.

Parks Associates is a market research and consulting firm focused on all product and service segments that are “digital” or provide connectivity within the home. The company's expertise includes home networks, digital entertainment, consumer electronics, broadband and Internet services, and home systems. Founded in 1986, Parks Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small start-ups through market reports, multiclient studies, consumer research, workshops, and custom-tailored client solutions.

WiMAX20/20 is an independent market research and consulting company focused solely on the emerging broadband wireless market. Our principals have been engaged in the WiMAX® industry since its inception and have gathered a thorough understanding of the technical, business and product issues surrounding the development of WiMAX® devices, equipment, networks, and services.

Media Partners

Biskero.org is Alessandro Pace’s personal blog. He writes about Flash Lite for mobile phones and mobile technologies. He also posts about his personal project Kero Mobile. Alessandro is an expert on Flash Lite technologies for mobile phones, an Adobe Community Expert for mobile and a Forum Nokia Champion.

Pike & Fischer's Broadband Advisory Services is the market intelligence arm of Pike & Fischer - A BNA Company. Our services deliver knowledgeable, accurate and insightful analysis on the broadband, IP and new media businesses to facilitate effective strategic decision making. We provide our subscribers with news and analysis, deep research, ongoing financial analysis and market forecasting, market intelligence and custom research covering cutting-edge business and technology.

Broadband Home Central provides information that spans the residential broadband ecosystem, from end-user devices, to infrastructure and applications, both inside and outside the home. It indexes articles from its free monthly newsletter, which has been tracking emerging technologies and industry trends since 2000. Subscribe to Sandy and Dave’s Report on the Broadband Home to keep up with the latest.

Chetan Sharma Consulting is a leading consulting and advisory firm focused on the mobile communications sector with services in product management, technical due diligence, scenario planning, market and competitive research, patent & IP strategy, and technology and business strategy. We assist major brands formulate winning and sustainable pervasive computing strategies. Some of the leading global players are our clients, such as, NTT DoCoMo, Disney, Sony, KTF, Samsung, Virgin Mobile, Sprint Nextel, AT&T, Reuters, Qualcomm, SAP, Merrill Lynch, American Express, BEA, and HP. www.chetansharma.com

MobileIN.com strives to help educate and inform industry professionals through focusing on a balance of wireless and mobile technology and applications as well as regulatory and business issues. MobileIN.com is dedicated to professionals engaged in the wireless and mobile network profession, including product and service providers, infrastructure and software developers, consultants and analysis, and the investment community. 

Movaya is a Seattle-based technology company focused on the intersection of web services and the mobile-content marketplace. Since its founding in 2004, Movaya has been dedicated to the development of its revolutionary mobile-content management and distribution software platform. The Movaya software platform enables any website to sell and distribute mobile-content, such as video games, music and videos.

Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association (SVCWireless), , has established to be the leading US-Asia (with a China focus) wireless industry non-profit association in Silicon Valley, now with some 3,500+ members since founding in year 2000. SVCWireless is an open association that embraces everyone interested in sharing knowledge on wireless technologies and business activities. As a premier Silicon Valley technology organization, SVCWireless promotes entrepreneurship, innovation, networking and business partnership with a focus on building a bridge between the wireless industries in Asia and the United States. Our bi-monthly seminars, annual conference, and many other events provide excellent venues for our members to develop their professional network and discover business opportunities.

WiMAX Industry is the leading online trade publication dedicated to the WiMAX 802.16 standard and broadband wireless access ( BWA) marketplace. Providing news, white papers, development resources and online buyer's guide for the WiMAX Industry. With a worldwide readership of manufacturers, providers and enterprise end-users, WiMAX Industry is the number one online marketplace for WiMAX, 802.16 broadband wireless access solutions
Website: http://www.wimax-industry.com

WiMAX Trends is a comprehensive information portal focused on the WiMAX revolution. Containing monthly feature articles with independent coverage and analysis of the business opportunities and emerging WiMAX solutions. WiMAX Trends is the only resource you need to track WiMAX. For a free subscription go to: www.wimaxtrends.com

xchange is a monthly magazine for facilities-based service providers offering voice, data, wireless, IP, WiMAX and content. xchange digs beneath the surface to provide analysis on new equipment, services, regulatory activities and more. The publication has a quarterly IPTV supplement; annual print and online buyer’s guides; a companion Web site, www.xchangemag.com; a weekly e-newsletter, hosts Webinars and publishes eBooks on special topics.