Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted partner of service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions 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. 
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity improvements that Internet business solutions provide. At Cisco, our vision is to change the way people work, live, play and learn. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections - whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible - providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. For more information visit www.cisco.com.
Ericsson is the world's leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators. The market leader in 2G and 3G mobile technologies, Ericsson supplies communications services and manages networks that serve more than 250 million subscribers. The company's portfolio comprises mobile and fixed network infrastructure, and broadband and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises and developers. The Sony Ericsson joint venture provides consumers with feature-rich personal mobile devices. Ericsson is advancing its vision of 'communication for all' through innovation, technology, and sustainable business solutions. Working in 175 countries, more than 70,000 employees generated revenue of USD 27 billion (SEK 209 billion) in 2008. Founded in 1876 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Ericsson is listed on OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm and NASDAQ. For more information, visit www.ericsson.com or www.ericsson.mobi.
Huawei Technologies is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications networks, and now serves 35 of the world's top 50 operators, along with over one billion users worldwide. The company is committed to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to create long-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). Major products are designed based on Huawei's ASIC chipset and utilize shared platforms to provide quality and cost-effective products.At the end of March 2007, Huawei has over 83,000 employees, of whom 43% are dedicated to R&D. Huawei's global R&D centers are located in Bangalore in India, Silicon Valley and Dallas in USA, Stockholm in Sweden and Moscow in Russia in addition to those in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu in China. For more information, please visit http://www.huawei.com. 
Juniper Networks is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper’s networking solutions create a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. Juniper’s open network infrastructure provides greater choice and control in quickly meeting high-performance business requirements, while reducing costs. The company has an aggressive strategy designed to deliver the best products, solutions and services at the best economics. Thus Juniper’s effective, efficient network offerings remain the preferred choice for high-performance businesses. Wireline, wireless, cable and content providers around the world look to Juniper to help them move from silo, service-specific networks to a converged, next-generation network (NGN) capable of delivering multi-play, business and mobile services. With a high-performance network, service providers can quickly and cost-effectively roll out new and differentiated services to residential and business customers to drive new sources of revenue and increase customer loyalty. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.
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. Nokia Siemens Networks is one of the largest telecommunications infrastructure companies with operations in 150 countries. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com. 
ADTRAN, Inc. is an established supplier of advanced transmission products for today's expansive communications networks. From our USA headquarters, we develop, market, and support a portfolio of more than 1,600 high-speed network access solutions for use across IP/Ethernet, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), and Time Division Multiplex (TDM) architectures using copper, fiber, and wireless network applications. In response to the growing demand from wireline carriers for Mobile Backhaul applications, ADTRAN offers an innovative combination of Carrier Ethernet solutions utilizing Ethernet in the First Mile technology and Optical Access solutions with innovative Advanced Ethernet features. ADTRAN delivers Smart Solutions for a Connected World. www.adtran.com.
ADVA Optical Networking (FSE: ADV) is a global provider of telecommunications equipment. With innovative Optical+Ethernet transport solutions, we build the foundation for high-speed, next-generation networks. Our FSP product family adds scalability and intelligence to our customers’ networks while removing complexity and cost. With a flexible and fast-moving organization, we forge close partnerships with our customers to meet growing demand for data, storage, voice and video services. Thanks to reliable performance for more than 15 years, we have become a trusted partner for more than 200 carriers and 10,000 enterprises across the globe. For more information, please visit us at www.advaoptical.com.
Brocade pioneered and continues to lead the Storage Area Network (SAN) market, providing the industry’s most reliable, energy-efficient solutions. Brocade recently enhanced its offerings by adding high-performance networking capabilities as part of a complete local, metro-, and wide-area switching, routing, security, and application traffic management portfolio. Delivered directly and through global partners, Brocade end-to-end networking solutions help today’s data-intensive organizations optimize information connectivity and maximize the business value of their data. www.brocade.com.
Ciena Corporation is a leader in communication network infrastructure, associated software and professional services. We specialize in helping customers transition to service-driven networks that fundamentally change the way they compete. With expertise in optical and Ethernet networking, Ciena combines software-programmable hardware, a common operating system, and unified service and transport management to enable our customers to adapt and scale with any emergent business model. Our solutions form the foundation of many of the largest, most reliable and sophisticated service provider, enterprise, government, and research and education networks across the globe. www.ciena.com.
Beyond the traditional role of a telecom vendor, ECI Telecom has become the partner for growth to our customers worldwide. Through our networking infrastructure solutions, we focus on addressing the challenges and needs that affect providers today and in the future. ECI’s platforms enable key revenue-generating applications, such as business services, voice, video and wireless backhaul. Our service expertise facilitates service deployment, maintenance and on-going operations, while optimizing capex and reducing opex. We are our customers’ Partner for Growth. What sets ECI apart from the rest of the market is ECI’s 1Net – our customers’ Path for Growth. 1Net defines our total focus on optimal transition to next-generation networks through the unique combination of innovative and multi-functional networking equipment, fully-integrated solutions and all-around services. ECI has brought to the market the first carrier Ethernet switch router built with a transport mindset. ECI brings our expertise in metro transport and advanced IP/MPLS software to deliver a Carrier Ethernet solution with the manageability, reliability and deterministic performance that carriers require. www.ecitele.com.
Extreme Networks provides converged Ethernet networks that support data, voice and video for enterprises and service providers. The company’s network solutions feature high performance and high availability switching that deliver insight and control enabling customers to solve their real-world business communications challenges. Operating in more than 50 countries, Extreme Networks provides wired and wireless secure LANs, data center infrastructure and Service Provider Ethernet transport solutions that are complemented by a global, 24x7 service and support. For more information, visit: www.extremenetworks.com.
Harris Stratex Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of wireless solutions for mobility, broadband, WiMAX and security/energy applications. Our wireless network solutions are backed by comprehensive network services and support. Harris Stratex Networks serves all global markets, including mobile network operators, public safety agencies, private network operators, utility and transportation companies, government agencies and broadcasters. Customers in more than 135 countries depend on Harris Stratex Networks to build, expand and upgrade their voice, data and video solutions. Harris Stratex Networks is recognized around the world for innovative, best-in-class wireless networking solutions and services. For more information, visit www.harrisstratex.com.
With $4.7B in Carrier Ethernet equipment forecast to ship in 2008 growing to $6.7B by 2010, the market window is wide open. However, equipment manufacturers who wish to capture this growth opportunity face several key challenges:
MRV is a global communications player, who provides WDM Optical Transport and Optical Metro Ethernet solutions since 1988. MRV provides a complete communication solution at the speed of light from long-haul high distance networks to optical Metro Ethernet access that has been supplying leading edge networks to carriers and enterprise customers worldwide. MRV integrates Photonics and MPLS Ethernet packets with advanced end-to-end GMPLS management control plan, and thus addresses the next generation Packet Optical Networks requirements. With world-class service and support, aiming at customer-oriented partnership, MRV operates eight R&D centers in the US, Europe, and the Far East, along with 50 support centers, and 21 sales offices around the world. For more information please visit www.mrv.com.
Nakina Systems provides Domain Control and Intelligence solutions to communications equipment and service providers worldwide. Our solutions enable customers to scale new network service infrastructure more rapidly and cost-effectively. Nakina solutions manage critical telecom network infrastructures in over twenty four countries and provides:
Tejas Networks is a leading enabler of high-performance telecom infrastructure by developing innovative carrier class communications equipment. Tens of thousands of Tejas equipment are working in networks that deliver voice, data and video services to end-users. Tejas is poised to continue building upon its Carrier Ethernet success by introducing a new suite of Carrier Ethernet Platforms at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress to further enhance the global customer experience in creating intelligent networks of tomorrow. Tejas Networks has witnessed enormous success in tackling the problems of efficiently aggregating bandwidth at the edge of the network, thereby offering substantial savings in capex and opex for its customers. Tejas has developed products that transition legacy networks into intelligent, Ethernet-enabled networks, which can be used to offer many new revenue-generating triple-play services. www.tejasnetworks.com.
Tellabs advances telecommunications networks to meet the evolving needs of users. Solutions from Tellabs enable service providers to deliver high-quality voice, video and data services over mobile and fixed networks around the world. 
ZTE is a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions. The ZTE product range is the most complete in the world – covering virtually every sector of the wireline, wireless, service and terminals markets. The company delivers innovative, custom-made products and services to customers in more than 135 countries, helping them to achieve continued revenue growth and to shape the future of the world’s communications. ZTE commits around 10% of annual turnover to research and development and takes a leading role in 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 only listed telecoms manufacturer, with shares publicly traded on both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. ZTE was included in BusinessWeek’s 2006 ranking of China’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 fastest growing telecom equipment and solutions provider among the major telecom vendors worldwide by IDC in 2007. For more information, please visit www.zte.com.cn.
Ancotel.the connection company. is a leading supplier of innovative services for carrier-neutral colocation, telehousing and interconnection. At “Kleyer 90” in Frankfurt am Main we have set up Europe’s biggest and most important telecommunications network node. A perfect playground for 300+ networks. Get together with a service partner who speaks your language. In 2006 the ancotel Hong Kong Ltd. and ancotel UK Ltd., London were built up, in order to launch the ancotel product vmmr®, which you can also find in New York City. Please find more Information at our website:www.ancotel.de. 
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’s FibeAir® product family offers scalable solutions for wireless transport of broadband services. Operating across multiple frequencies for IP and SONET/SDH protocols, FibeAir systems support the emerging needs of next-generation networks that are evolving to all-IP based services. Ceragon leads the market in IP backhaul, offering a unique, native IP solution that provides the efficient, robust connectivity required for next generation mobile, WiMAX, LTE and converged networks. 
Ethos Networks helps service providers migrate their legacy metro transport network to Carrier Ethernet, enabling operational simplicity and cost effectiveness. Ethos Networks’ Carrier Ethernet switches, combined with its comprehensive, yet easy-to-use Domain Management System provide a pure-packet transport solution, while maintaining carrier-grade “five 9s” service availability and SONET/SDH-like operational simplicity. Ethos Networks’ standards-based products utilize patented traffic engineering technology to address the stringent quality-of-service requirements of demanding applications like mobile backhaul, voice and video services. Ethos Networks is a privately held company that brings together years of experience in Ethernet and carrier networks to deliver innovative solutions to its customers. www.ethos-networks.com.
Based in California, USA, Omnitron manufactures carrier grade fiber optic Network Interface Devices (NIDs), T1/E1 and CWDM multiplexers and T1/E1 Pseudo-wire equipment for edge and demarcation applications. MEF 9 and 14 certified, Omnitron’s equipment features 802.3ah link OAM, 802.1ag Service Fault OAM and Y.1731 Service Performance OAM enabling cost-effective and rapid services deployments. Omnitron’s T1/E1 multiplexers, pseudo-wire and demarcation equipment is ideal for business services as well as mobile backhaul applications. The CWDM multiplexers feature high port density for efficient and cost effective optical fiber and enables phased migration from SONET/SDH to carrier Ethernet. Omnitron’s iConverter multi-service platform provides a modular and scalable flexible vehicle for the delivery of 10/100/Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, T1/E1, T3/E3, STM1, STM4 as well as older Serial 232/422/485 and X21 applications over dual or single fiber. Omnitron’s products are available worldwide via select group of value added resellers.www.omnitron-systems.com.
RAD’s industry leading Carrier Ethernet access product portfolio enables service providers and mobile transport operators to deliver EPL and EVPL services with end-to-end service control and performance measurement over fiber, PDH, SDH/SONET, and DSL. Carrier Ethernet users can benefit from sophisticated traffic management functionality to ensure tiered SLAs as well as a full-suite of Timing over Packet capabilities for reliable all-IP mobile backhaul. RAD’s EtherAccess portfolio include intelligent customer-located demarcation devices, cell site gateways, and channelized Ethernet aggregation devices. These products fully comply with MEF, ITU-T, IEEE, and IETF standards. For more information visit www.rad.com. 
TPACK provides embedded software solutions for the Packet Transport and Carrier Ethernet market. TPACK SOFTSILICON standard chip products and SOFTSYSTEM customizable solutions help Telecom Equipment Manufacturers to accelerate system development and lower implementation risk while at the same time providing the flexibility to modify, extend and customize functionality in response to dynamic market and customer demands. TPACK’s customer base includes the majority of the top 10 Telecom Optical Equipment Manufacturers. www.tpack.com.
