Sponsors

Thank you to the following vendors who have joined us as sponsors.

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Platinum

Avaya

Avaya Inc. designs, builds and manages communications networks for more than one million businesses worldwide, including over 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500(r). Focused on businesses large to small, Avaya is a world leader in secure and reliable Internet Protocol telephony systems and communications software applications and services. Driving the convergence of voice and data communications with business applications- and distinguished by comprehensive worldwide services - Avaya helps customers leverage existing and new networks to achieve superior business results. For more information visit the Avaya Web site: http://www.avaya.com

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Joint Platinum

Cisco

Cisco 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.Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 65,225 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as:

Ingram Micro

Ingram Micro Inc. is the world's largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical support, financial services and product aggregation and distribution.

Since its beginnings in 1979, Ingram Micro has connected technology solution providers with vendors worldwide, identifying markets and technologies that shape the IT industry. Today, Ingram Micro remains at the forefront of the global technology marketplace, bringing the latest products and services to market and finding new ways to bring value to our customers. The company offers a broad array of solutions and services to nearly 165,000 resellers by distributing and marketing hundreds of thousands of IT products worldwide from nearly 1,400 suppliers.

Through Ingram Micro Logistics, the company provides customizable services for order management and fulfillment, contract manufacturing, contract warehousing, product procurement, product pack out and cartonization, reverse logistics, transportation management, customer care, credit and collection management services, and other value chain services. Ingram Micro serves 100 countries and is the only global IT distributor with operations in Asia.

Learn more about Ingram Micro

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Gold

Netformx

Netformx® is the acknowledged leader in intelligent network design providing rules-based design, quoting and proposal generation platforms including its cornerstone solution DesignXpert. Whether your company is creating physical data networks, deploying converged VoIP or unified communication solutions or selling MPLS and Managed Services, DesignXpert streamlines the end-to-end design and quoting process. These solutions are supported by the world’s most extensive multi-vendor KnowledgeBase™ of network equipment, configuration and validation rules. Netformx DesignXpert significantly

  • Accelerates time from concept through execution
  • Increases productivity and collaboration among co-workers, partners and customers
  • Reduces costly errors during quoting, design and provisioning phases
  • Improves accuracy of future design modifications
  • Enhances customer loyalty by providing the right solution to meet their needs

Stop by the Netformx Booth to learn how you too can maximize utilization of scarce sales and professional design resources, increase accuracy of your deliverables and improve collaboration across multiple departments.

Learn more about Netformx

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Joint Gold

Hundreds of millions of people, Fortune 500 companies, and government institutions around the world trust their networks to Nortel's reliable and secure solutions.

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.

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Ingram Micro

Ingram Micro Inc. is the world's largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical support, financial services and product aggregation and distribution.

Since its beginnings in 1979, Ingram Micro has connected technology solution providers with vendors worldwide, identifying markets and technologies that shape the IT industry. Today, Ingram Micro remains at the forefront of the global technology marketplace, bringing the latest products and services to market and finding new ways to bring value to our customers. The company offers a broad array of solutions and services to nearly 165,000 resellers by distributing and marketing hundreds of thousands of IT products worldwide from nearly 1,400 suppliers.

Through Ingram Micro Logistics, the company provides customizable services for order management and fulfillment, contract manufacturing, contract warehousing, product procurement, product pack out and cartonization, reverse logistics, transportation management, customer care, credit and collection management services, and other value chain services. Ingram Micro serves 100 countries and is the only global IT distributor with operations in Asia.

Learn more about Ingram Micro

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Silver

Adtran

ADTRAN, Inc. supplies innovative network access products that enable today's widespread digital telecommunications applications, including Internet access, telecommuting, corporate connectivity, distance learning, videoconferencing, and teleradiology (xDSL, OPTICAL, Layer 2/3 PoE Switch, Access Router, VPN/Firewall, IP Telephony etc).  Used extensively in the networks of incumbent local exchange carriers, independent carriers, competitive service providers, interexchange carriers, Internet service providers, and private and public enterprises worldwide, ADTRAN products consistently reduce operating costs and improve network performance. ADTRAN also provides network design and support through Bell Canada Alliance Partner - Imeco Telecom.

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People move. Networks must follow. Aruba securely delivers networks to users, wherever they work or roam. Our unified mobility solutions use Wi-Fi and wired networks, identity-based security, remote access and cellular solutions, and multi-vendor network management services to enable the Follow-Me Enterprise:

  • Follow-Me Connectivity: 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi networks ensure that users are always within reach of mission-critical information;
  • Follow-Me Security: Identity-based security assigns access policies to users, enforcing those policies whenever and wherever a network is accessed;
  • Follow-Me Applications: Remote access solutions and cellular network integration ensure uninterrupted access to applications as users move;
  • Follow-Me Management: Multi-vendor network management makes everything work cohesively, including new and legacy wireless equipment from other vendors.

The cost, convenience, and security benefits of our unified mobility solutions are fundamentally changing how and where we work. Listed on the NASDAQ and Russell 2000® Index, Aruba is based in Sunnyvale, California, and has operations throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions. To learn more, visit Aruba at www.arubanetworks.com

 

Citrix

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 215,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100 percent of the Fortune 100 companies and 99 percent of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 8,000 partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2007 was $1.4 billion.

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Fonex

FONEX data systems is a proven telecommunications equipment provider focused on delivering broadband access and metro edge network solutions for both wireline and wireless network operators. Founded in 1989, with offices in Canada (Montréal, Toronto , Vancouver ), France ( Paris ) and Dubai-UAE, FONEX's mission is to address the challenges faced by operators in delivering broadband services cost-effectively and profitably to their customers in the access, metropolitan and wide-area portions of the network. With so many competing approaches and fast-evolving technologies, our value proposition is to act as trusted advisors to network architects and planners in formulating the business case for enabling change.

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Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks develops purpose-built, high performance IP platforms that enable customers to support many different services and applications at scale. Service providers, enterprises, governments and research and education institutions rely on Juniper to deliver a portfolio of proven networking, security and application acceleration solutions that solve highly complex, fast-changing problems in the world's most demanding networks. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.

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Bronze

Our Belden IBDN family of structured cabling systems provides a choice of several levels of system performance to best meet the needs of today’s diverse cabling networks. Each is composed of fully integrated, beyond industry-standards products. The quality of our components, our superior design and expert installation is what sets Belden IBDN apart from other structured cabling solutions.

Learn more about Belden: www.belden.com/

 

Check Point

About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Checkpoint) is the leader in securing the Internet. Check Point offers total security solutions featuring a unified gateway, single endpoint agent and single management architecture, customized to fit customers' dynamic business needs. This combination is unique and is a result of our leadership and innovation in the enterprise firewall, personal firewall/endpoint, data security and VPN markets.

Check Point's pure focus is on information security. Through its NGX platform, Check Point delivers a unified security architecture to protect business communications and resources, including corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets. The company also offers market-leading endpoint and data security solutions with Check Point Endpoint Security products, protecting and encrypting sensitive corporate information stored on PCs and other mobile computing devices. Check Point's award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumer PCs from hackers, spyware and identity theft. Check Point solutions are sold, integrated and serviced by a network of Check Point partners around the world and its customers include 100 percent of Fortune 100 companies and tens of thousands of businesses and organizations of all sizes

 

Fluke

Fluke Networks products and solutions equip industry professionals with the tools and knowledge to ensure maximum network performance, efficient installations and fast problem resolution. Our solutions range from punch-down tools and butt-sets to large scale enterprise wide network performance systems. We also ensure the underlying copper, fiber and wireless infrastructure can handle today's demanding bandwidth requirements. Our aim is to be a 'valued partner', so our customers can achieve their business goals with our technology. We deliver on the level of network visibility your team demands so they can effectively plan and operate this important element of your business.

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IBM Training is a full-service training provider with a comprehensive and flexible portfolio of offerings and services. IBM provides training services, from public scheduled courses to full training partnerships, to customers of all sizes. IBM takes a consultative approach to help customers define skills requirements and build training plans to bridge skills gaps. The result is a customized training plan that addresses factors like company size, budget, and distribution of workforce. Private training is our specialty - we build customized classes to accommodate any customer, and deliver training either at an IBM training centre, a customer site or anywhere else.

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Infosat Communications, Inc. is one of North America’s leading providers of satellite communication solutions, offering a comprehensive range of fixed, mobile and transportable wireless communication systems. Infosat provides experience and reliability to businesses and industries where voice and data communication are vital, as well as coverage which surpasses cellular and other terrestrial modes. Infosat’s Terrestrial Division (Able Infosat Communications) provides 2-way radio, microwave, and marine communication solutions operating out of Houston, Texas.

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JDSU

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Netscout

NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT) has set the pace of innovation for advanced network and application service assurance for over twenty years. Our world-renowned solutions provide trusted, comprehensive, and actionable performance intelligence, including early warning, network-wide real-time and historical views, and rapid, definitive problem analysis down to the packet level. These capabilities are vital to IT operators who are accountable for reducing the Mean Time to Resolution. The world’s largest enterprises, government agencies, and service providers depend upon NetScout’s nGenius and Sniffer (formerly Network General) brands to assure service performance to their users by reducing or preventing disruptions and degradations.

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Established in 1981, privately owned RAD Data Communications has achieved international recognition as a major manufacturer of high quality access equipment for data communications and telecommunications applications. These solutions serve the data and voice access requirements of service providers, incumbent and new carriers, and enterprise networks, by reducing infrastructure investment costs while boosting competitiveness and profitability. The company's installed base exceeds 10,000,000 units and includes more than 150 carriers and operators around the world. These customers are supported by 21 RAD offices and more than 300 channel partners in 164 countries.

Learn more about RAD at: www.rad.com.

 

 

As the world’s leading manufacturer of power protection equipment, Tripp Lite’s innovations include the world’s first UPS system designed specifically for personal computers, and the world’s must trusted premium surge surpressor-the Isobar-with more then 14 million in use. With the advent of VoIP, Tripp Lite has continued to lead in the market by offering products that incorporate expandability, redundancy and leveraging partnerships with Cisco via the "Technology Developer Program." Tripp Lite maintains the highest level of ready to ship inventory in the industry with more than 1000 different products, including UPS systems, surge, power inverters, connectivity products and network management accessories. Headquartered in Chicago, Tripp Lite maintains a global presence with fully-staffed offices worldwide. Tripp Lite’s vision for this new millennium is built on the bedrock of its values, unsurpassed reliability, enhanced service and the highest quality products available.

Learn more about Tripp Lite: http://www.tripplite.com

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For questions concerning the conference, please contact:

Linda Sullivan
linda.sullivan@bell.ca
613-781-4654