Mobile Broadband Partners
Nokia Corporation is currently the world's largest manufacturer
of mobile telephones, with a global device market share of
approximately 36% in Q1 of 2007. It produces mobile phones for
every major market and protocol, including GSM, CDMA, and W-CDMA
(UMTS). The corporation also produces telecommunications network
equipment for applications such as mobile and fixed-line voice
telephony, ISDN, broadband access, voice over IP, and wireless
LAN.
www.nokia.com
Ericsson is a leading provider of communications networks,
related services and handset technology platforms. Through their
Sony Ericsson joint venture, they are also a major provider of
handsets.
www.ericsson.com
Cisco Systems, Inc. is a global company headquartered in San
Jose, California, USA, that designs and sells networking and
communications technology and services under four brands: Cisco,
Linksys, WebEx and Scientific Atlanta. Initially, Cisco
manufactured only enterprise multi-protocol routers, but today
Cisco's products can be found everywhere from the living room to
the enterprise to service provider networks. Cisco's vision is
"Changing the Way We Live, Work, Play and Learn." Cisco's current
tagline is "Welcome to the human network."
www.cisco.com
Alcatel-Lucent is a multinational company that provides
hardware, software, and services to telecommunications service
providers and enterprises all over the globe. The company is
incorporated in France, and has its executive offices in Paris, its
North American regional executive offices in Murray Hill, New
Jersey, and its Middle East headquarter in Egypt. The company does
business in 132 countries, with almost equal sales distribution
coming from both its European and North American regions, and an
additional third of its channel located elsewhere in the world.
Alcatel-Lucent was formed after the merger of Alcatel and
Lucent
www.alcatel.com
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is a Japanese and German IT vendor,
selling consumer and business computing products in the markets of
Europe, the Middle East and Africa (products marketed elsewhere are
sold under the Fujitsu brand). The company is a 50/50 joint venture
between Fujitsu Limited of Japan and Siemens AG of Germany and was
founded in 1999. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has a presence in key
markets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with the
services division extending coverage up to 170 countries
worldwide.
www.fujitsu-siemens.com
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational computer
technology corporation with global annual revenue of US $44.28
billion and 76,000 employees in 102 countries. It develops,
manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software
products for computing devices.
www.microsoft.com
Symbian OS is a proprietary operating system, designed for
mobile devices, with associated libraries, user interface
frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced
by Symbian Ltd. It is a descendant of Psion's EPOC and runs
exclusively on ARM processors. Symbian is currently owned by Nokia
(47.9%), Ericsson (15.6%), Sony Ericsson (13.1%), Panasonic
(10.5%), Siemens AG (8.4%) and Samsung (4.5%).
www.symbian.com
The Hewlett-Packard Company commonly known as HP, is currently
the world's largest information technology corporation (by revenue)
and is known worldwide for its printers, personal computers and
related services. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United
States, it has a global presence in the fields of computing,
printing, and digital imaging, and also provides software and
services
www.hp.com
Nortel Networks Corporation formerly known as Northern Telecom
Limited and now known simply as Nortel, is a multinational
telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Toronto,
Canada.
www.nortel.com
Intel Corporation is the world's largest semiconductor company
and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the
processors found in many personal computers. Founded in 1968 as
Integrated Electronics Corporation and based in Santa Clara,
California, USA, Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network
cards and ICs, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors,
and other devices related to communications and computing.
www.intel.com
Device Management Partners
Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established in 2001 by the
Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the
Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones.
Both companies have stopped making their own mobile phones. The
reason for this merger is to combine Sony's consumer electronics
expertise with Ericsson's technological leadership. Sony Ericsson
has approximately 8,000 employees worldwide.
www.sonyericsson.com
The Samsung Group is a South Korean conglomerate (chaebol)
composed of numerous businesses, including Samsung Electronics, one
of the world's largest electronics companies. Samsung Group is
South Korea's largest exporter. The name "Samsung" means "three
stars" or "tristar" in Korean.
www.samsung.com
Novatel Wireless, Inc. is a San Diego, California-based designer
and manufacturer of wireless broadband access solutions. With
European offices in United Kingdom, Germany, and France, Novatel
Wireless owns 30 technology patents relating to wireless voice and
data technology.
www.novatelwireless.com
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's
Republic of China is one of the world's leading networking and
telecommunications equipment suppliers. Huawei Technologies is a
private high-tech enterprise which specializes in research and
development (R&D), production and marketing of communications
equipment, and providing customized network solutions for telecom
carriers in different areas. Huawei has now (2007) 62,000 employees
globally, serves 31 of the top 50 telecoms operators, and puts 10
per cent of revenue into R&D each year.In addition to the
R&D centers in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou
and Chengdu in China, Huawei has also R&D centers in India,
Russia, Sweden, and the USA
www.huawei.com
Sierra Wireless is a wireless communications equipment
designer and manufacturer, currently headquartered in Richmond, BC,
Canada. Sierra's products are sold through indirect channels, such
as wireless operators, resellers, and OEMs. Sierra's core product
areas are: AirCard products, Mobile in-vehicle solutions, Embedded
modules for OEMs and Software solutions.
www.sierrawireless.com
Option, the wireless technology company, is a leading innovator
in the design, development and manufacture of 3G WCDMA (HSPA and
UMTS), EDGE, GPRS, GSM and WLAN technology products for wireless
connectivity solutions. Option's headquarters are in Leuven,
Belgium. The company has Research & Development in Leuven and
Düsseldorf (Germany), a Software and Applications development
centre in Adelsried (Germany), a Wireless Router development centre
in Stockholm (Sweden), an ISO 9002 production engineering and
logistics facility in Cork, Ireland. Option also has sales &
support operations in the US, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
www.option.com
Colubris Networks is a leading global provider of intelligent
multiservice wireless LAN systems for service providers and
enterprises. The company's award-winning products deliver seamless,
secure access to broadband services and applications while unifying
existing network infrastructures, security and management systems.
Colubris Networks' equipment is deployed by more than 1,000
organizations worldwide.
Gemtek is one of the world's largest independent suppliers of
Wi-Fi products with expertise of hardware analog RF designs,
software engineering and manufacturing. The company is 100%
dedicated to wireless LAN business which enables them to bring
products to market faster and more economically than others
IBM is leading the invention, development and manufacture of the
industry's most advanced information technologies, including
computer systems, software, storage systems and
microelectronics.
Radionet is a wireless technology company specializing in the
development, design and sale of city wide outdoor wireless
broadband networks. The company is a pioneer in wireless broadband
technology and has developed its own outdoor network solution.
Radionet's technology is based on the WLAN standard conforming to
IEEE 802.11. Radionet offers comprehensive broadband Internet base
station networks for operators, Internet service providers,
telephone companies, power utilities and system integrators.
Tropos Networks is the proven leader in delivering truly
ubiquitous, metro-scale, Wi-Fi mesh network systems, delivering the
fastest, lowest cost and simplest wireless broadband solutions, as
demonstrated by the world's largest installed base of metro-scale
Wi-Fi mesh networks. Their innovative and patented
MetroMesh&tm; architecture allows public safety agencies,
municipalities and service providers to quickly and easily deliver
city-wide mobile broadband connectivity to users in any locale
