UTStarcom, Inc., a U.S. corporation, is a global provider of telecommunications solutions to the largest and fastest growing telecom service providers including 17 of the top 20 operators globally. The company’s product portfolio includes wireless and wireline access network, broadband, IP-switching, transmission and 3G solutions. Founded in 1991, UTStarcom is headquartered in California, has ISO 9001 certified R&D facilities in New Jersey, Chicago, California and Vancouver (North America), regional R&D centers in Asia including two in India, ISO 9002 certified manufacturing facilities in North America and Asia and sales offices throughout the world.

UTStarcom’s South Asia office is headquartered at Gurgaon in India with a branch office at Mumbai. The company aims to become a complete solution provider to the telecommunications service providers in the country through the introduction of its major product lines – its AN2000 broadband multi-service access platform, its EPON broadband FTTP access solution, its comprehensive MovingMedia portfolio of wireless solutions [CDMA2000, TD-CDMA, W-CDMA], mVision its end-to-end interactive IPTV solution, its mSwitch softswitch solution and NetRing its optical transport solutions. UTStarcom has started their operations in Bangladesh and has recently bagged the contract to supply its CDMA handsets to City Cell, Bangladesh’s pioneering mobile communications company.

Telrad Networks is one of Israel’s top Hi-Tech firms. Drawing on over 50 years of experience, it is a leading provider & system integrator of cutting-edge end-to-end telecommunications solutions, compliant with the highest standards in a wide range of areas. Telrad Networks is a dynamic company, which utilizes its vast telecom experience and in-depth knowledge to create enhanced customized multi-vendor networks for its customers, implementing large scale next generation projects as well as converged legacy projects and serving as a single point of contact for all Telco/service provider needs.

Telrad Networks delivers creative, multi vendor customized Carrier-Grade solution - from site survey and all the way to customer care services, in Latin America, Africa, East Europe and Asia Pacific. Telrad’s main areas: Legacy & NGN, Triple Play Access Solution and Networking Gateways.

Tekelec develops advanced network signaling, next-generation switching, business intelligence and revenue-generating applications for wireless and wireline operators worldwide. With more than 25 years of industry experience, Tekelec is building on its heritage and technical expertise to deliver solutions that help operators generate new revenues, enhance customer satisfaction, migrate to converged, multimedia networks and improve efficiencies while lowering operating costs.

Tekelec is the established market-share leader in network signaling and has deployed its multi-protocol solutions extensively in wireless and wireline networks around the globe. Its solutions enable operators to cost-effectively make the transition to multimedia converged networks while leveraging existing investments.

Tekelec’s purpose-built, next-generation switching products help wireless, wireline and cable operators easily and economically migrate from circuit to packet networks to deliver voice and other enhanced services.

Centile is the global leader in Application Feature Server solutions for carriers, service providers and new entrants into the VoIP space. It is an Internet Telephony (VoIP) software vendor founded in 1998 whose software is the result of over 6 years development and €40 million in R&D investment. To date Centile has over 1mm active lines in deployment worldwide.

Centile's powerful software allows carriers to have the shortest time to market with one of the lowest TCO in launching VOIP services. With Centile's software, carriers are able to take and grow market share from day one quickly and cost effectively.

Centile's communications platform, the IntraSwitch, provides a comprehensive range of powerful applications and value added features including Hosted iPBX, Premise based IP PBX, Residential VoIP, Conferencing, Media Server and CTI applications. Centile IntraSwitch is based on open standards (JAVA/SOAP/SIP/MGCP) and is qualified on Linux and Solaris platforms. It has embedded NAT-traversal capabilities, ENUM support for on-net/off-net call triggering and powerful service management capabilities. Centile technology allows easy integration with a wide range of third party terminals (MGCP, SIP, full features on Cisco SCCP), third-party PSTN gateways, softswitches and session controllers (SIP), as well as external applications such as CRM and billing. Centile IntraSwitch is both ready to deploy today and ready for Next Generation Network and Services.

Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications. Alcatel has shipped more than 70 million DSL lines and has the world's largest digital line installed base. Alcatel is number 1 in optical networking with 15% market share and number 2 in multiservice wide area networks. The company is also a leading supplier of TV and Video over DSL.

Alcatel is partnering with more than 300 mobile operators. Alcatel has more than 12% of world-wide GSM/GPRS/EDGE market and is the No1 choice of GSM Greenfield operators. Through its alliance with Fujitsu, Alcatel is uniquely positioned in the roll-out of 3G. Alcatel is also leader in IN applications, messaging and payment solutions.

Alcatel strengthened its leadership positions in electronic interlocking, main line and metro CBTC train control. Alcatel continues to lead the IP PBX market in Western Europe and remains the world leading provider of customer interaction solutions. Alcatel's integration and services activities going up to full outsourcing represents today 15% of Alcatel sales. Finally, in the Space sector, we agreed to join forces with Finmeccanica to create the leader in the European satellite industry.

With sales of EURO 12.3 billion in 2004, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries.

Prominence Networks MediaIP Service Delivery products have achieved major advancements in QoS and ease of management by synergistically combining multiple technical innovations, never before integrated into a single product. MediaIP’s multi-functional, integrated architecture can avoid or replace numerous, stand-alone devices. MediaIP ensures network readiness assessments, end-to-end traffic engineering, intelligent call admission control, guaranteed QoS, dynamic bandwidth allocation, integrated test probes for real-time/historical monitoring and proactive management for both IP Telephony and IP Video conferencing.

Prominence Networks MediaIP Service Delivery products simplifies converged network deployments, accelerates IP Telephony and IP Videoconferencing implementation while decreasing total cost of ownership, and enhances management of the Full Life Cycle continuum. MediaIP guarantees end-to-end quality of service, dynamically allocates reserved bandwidth and avoids network congestion with Intelligent Call Admission Control. MediaIP includes integrated test probes that provide pro-active network assessments as well as continual monitoring and management, which increases call completion rates for IP voice and video. This addresses the hidden costs of convergence; including the need to overprovision, increased administration/troubleshooting expenses, and the additional costs for monitoring and management hardware and software products. Introduced in December 2003, Prominence Network’s flagship offering, MediaIP Service Delivery products enables IP telephony and video conferencing.

Founded in 1997, Sonus Networks, Inc. is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. It is a leading provider of voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure solutions for wireline and wireless service providers. With its comprehensive IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution, Sonus addresses the full range of carrier applications, including residential and business voice services, wireless voice and multimedia, trunking and tandem switching, carrier interconnection and enhanced services.

Called the Open Services Architecture™ (OSA), Sonus’ product line was one of the first to incorporate all the primary components of a next-generation network, setting a new standard for performance, scalability and ease of use. The OSA provides carrier-grade reliability and supports openness for interoperability with products from other vendors.

Sonus’ voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure solutions, including media gateways, softswitches and network management systems, have been deployed in service provider networks worldwide for more than four years, and currently drive more than 15 billion minutes of production traffic across these networks per month.