Gold Sponsors

Huawei Technologies is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications networks, and now serves 35 of the world’s top 50 operators, alongwith over one billion users worldwide. The company is committed to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to createlong-term value and growth potential for its customers. Huawei’s products and solutions encompassing wireless products (HSDPA/WCDMA/EDGE/GPRS/GSM, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO/CDMA2000 1X, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX), core network products (IMS, Mobile Softswitch, NGN), network products(FTTx, xDSL, Optical, Routers, LAN Switch), applications and software (IN, mobile data service, BOSS), as well as terminals (UMTS/CDMA). Majorproducts are designed based on Huawei’s ASIC chipset and utilize shared platforms to provide quality and cost-effective products. At the end of June2008, Huawei has over 87,502 employees, of whom 43% are dedicated to R&D. Huawei’s global R&D centers are located in Bangalore in India, Silicon Valley and Dallasin USA, Stockholm in Sweden and Moscow in Russia in addition to those in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu in China.

ZTE is a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions. The ZTE product range is the most complete inthe world – covering virtually every sector of the wireline, wireless, service and terminals markets. The company delivers innovative, custommadeproducts and services to customers in more than 135 countries, helping them to achieve continued revenue growth and to shape thefuture of the world’s communications. ZTE commits around 10% of annual turnover to research and development and takes a leading rolein a wide range of international bodies developing emerging telecoms standards. It is the fastest growing telecoms equipment company in the world, and is China’s onlylisted telecoms manufacturer, with shares publicly traded on both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. ZTE was included in BusinessWeek’s 2006 ranking ofChina’s Top 20 Brands. ZTE was awarded the “Most Promising Vendor of the year” by Frost & Sullivan in its 2007 Asia Pacific ICT Awards, and was reported as the fastestgrowing telecom equipment and solutions provider among the major telecom vendors worldwide by IDC in 2007. For more information, please visit www.zte.com.cn.

Silver Sponsors

Alcatel-Lucent is the trusted partner of service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions that to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. A leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent leverages the unrivalled technical and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications industry. With operations in more than 130 countries and the most experienced global services organization in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with a global reach. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 16.98 billion in 2008 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet:http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

Atos Origin is an international information technology services company. Its business is turning client vision into results through the applicationof consulting, systems integration and managed operations. The company’s annual revenues are EUR 5.8 billion and it employs 50,000 people in40 countries. Atos Origin is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic Games. Atos Origin Next Generation IntelligentNetworks Expertise Center serves the telecommunications market since 1998. Atos Origin engineers are experts on both telecom and ITsoftware development and systems integration. Our engineers at the NGIN Center have in-depth knowledge and years of experience workingwith IN, IMS, and JAIN SLEE technology. This Center provides support to global Telecommunications operators in the creation and roll-out of multimedia fixed-mobileconvergent services. To date, Atos Origin products are deployed and live in a dozen operators and on more than 50 network elements around Europe.ngin.es.atosorigin.com

Ericsson is the leading provider of end-to-end IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Ericsson implemented the world’s first commercial IMSnetwork and has a leading market share in signed commercial contracts. Ericsson IMS gives operators immediate revenue opportunitiesand enables seamless access to a wide range of new multimedia services across fixed, mobile and enterprise networks. Ericsson is shapingthe future of Mobile and Broadband Internet communications through its continuous technology leadership. Providing solutions in morethan 140 countries, Ericsson is helping to create the most powerful communication companies in the world. www.ericsson.com/ims

Bronze Sponsor

Openet is a leading worldwide provider of event-processing and transaction-management solutions. We remain focused on deliveringbest-in-class network-edge solutions and specialized engagement processes that create business value from network activity. Throughits open architecture and modular design, the FusionWorks™ FrameWork serves as the scalable foundation for a range of Openetproducts; Convergent Mediation, Convergent Charging, Network Edge Rating, Policy Manager, and Balance Manager. A global company, Openet implementations includelong-running engagements with the world’s leading service providers such as Sprint, BT, Orange, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and Telstra.

Badge and Lanyard Sponsor

Comverse is the world’s leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based voice, messaging and content value-added services, prepaid, postpaid and converged billing and active customer management, mobile advertising and IP communications. Comverse’s extensive customer base spans more than 130 countries, covering over 500 communication service providers serving more than two billion subscribers.

 The company’s innovative product portfolio enables communication service providers to unleash the value of the network for their customers by making their networks smarter. Comverse’s solutions support flexible deployment models, including in-network, hosted and managed services, and can run on circuit-switched, VoIP, IMS or converged network environments.