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IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate.
Drawing on resources from across IBM and key IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of on demand business. Whether it is developing and delivering new services quickly, driving operational efficiencies or improving customer experiences to reduce churn, IBM solutions can help telecommunications service providers take advantage of the new opportunities resulting from the convergence of voice, data, video and wireless technologies.

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Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. We supply the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems and software — the building blocks of the worldwide digital economy. Intel's mission is to delight our customers, employees, and shareholders by relentlessly delivering the platform and technology advancements that become essential to the way we work and live. Around the globe, businesses are running nearly 40 million Intel servers built on open standards. Using Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture, businesses can deploy innovative, high performance and cost-effective solutions to help deliver more IT capacity at a lower total cost of ownership. Together, Intel and Comverse have been developing hardware platforms and software solutions for service providers for many years.

Intel’s Carrier grade and IP Network servers form the building blocks of Comverse systems and software that enable multimedia network based enhanced services around the globe.

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EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com






EDS is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients. EDS has been providing information technology outsourcing and business process services for the global communications industry for more than 34 years. EDS helps wireline, wireless, broadband and cable service providers redefine their markets to help them become more agile, reduce fixed operations cost and introduce next-generation services.

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Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 50 satellite offices spanning the globe. CIOs have ranked Red Hat first for value in Enterprise Software for three consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat provides high-quality, low-cost technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide.

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Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR), the global leader in integrated application delivery solutions, assures the full availability, maximum performance, and complete security of business-critical applications for more than 5,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With APSolute™, Radware’s comprehensive and award-winning suite of intelligent front end, access, and security products, companies in every industry can drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs by making their networks “business-smart”.

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Network Appliance (NetApp) is a leading full-line provider of unified enterprise storage solutions that deliver simplified data management, flexible and scalable storage infrastructure, comprehensive data protection and reliable data access. Founded on a vision of providing simple solutions to complex business problems, NetApp has established itself as a leader and innovator in the storage industry through a passionate commitment to simplicity, innovation and teamwork. Working with leading partners across the industries, NetApp addresses pressing enterprise concerns within each industry. NetApp delivers complete solutions that can help you improve time-to-market, reduce data management complexity, minimize costs and increase access to information.

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HP keeps people connected with richer, simpler and more personalized services by enabling communications, media and entertainment companies to integrate their business processes, link digital content and communications networks, and capitalize on the explosion of new and exciting devices for entertainment, information and communication. HP leads an ecosystem of partners that deliver solutions for the industry specific needs of these key enterprise companies.

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Enterprises and consumers need to keep their infrastructures up and running 24x7. They need to be able to access information anytime and anywhere. That means that their critical systems must be up and running all the time. Therefore, it is important that they protect the physical systems, the operating environments, and the applications – across all tiers of their infrastructure. They must protect a broad range of information types – from email to business documents to digital photos to audio and video files. And, they must ensure that the interactions – the connections, the collaborative environments, and the movement of data while in use – are protected. Symantec is focused on helping customers protect their infrastructures, their information, and their interactions. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in 40 countries.

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Alvarion, the world’s leading provider of wireless broadband and WiMAX solutions, provides systems to carriers, ISPs, and private network operators. Alvarion’s products enable delivery of business and residential broadband access, corporate VPNs, toll quality telephony, mobile base station feeding, hotspot coverage extension, community interconnection, and public safety communications. Leading the OPENTM WiMAX market with extensive deployments and proven product-portfolio in the industry, Alvarion covers the full range of frequency bands with fixed and mobile solutions.

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Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world’s most critical information. Our next-generation technologies, for both service providers and enterprises, span access and core networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications, and help eliminate today’s barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people with information. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com.

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