PTC'06 Shift Happens: Transition to IP
The 28th Annual Telecommunications Conference & Exhibition Shift Happens: Transition to IP
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PTC'06 Co-Hosted by:
Pacific Telecommunications Council
Verizon
Telus
SES AMERICOM

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PTC'06 Sponsors

France Telecom is a world class international carrier and an established partner in the wholesale market, providing innovative services for more than 1,000 mobile operators, international carriers, ISPs and content providers. Its offering spans the full range of capabilities in mobile, voice, Internet and bandwidth, and includes different levels of customization to match carriers’ exact requirements. Dedicated wholesale teams, combined with leading-edge networks and R&D, enable France Telecom to offer top-end quality to telecoms operators. Customers also benefit from capacity on the new SEA-ME-WE 4 undersea cable. www.francetelecom/wholesalesolutions.
hosef Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation
The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation is a charitable non-profit organization with a mission to promote and sustain the use of Open Source Software. By donating Linux computer labs to schools and non-profits, HOSEF promotes vendor-neutral, standards-compliant computer literacy education.
Advocating thin client deployments, HOSEF demonstrates the value of previously discarded computers when harnessed in a terminal server environment and powered by software like the LTSP, Skolelinux, and the K12LTSP. Having created an educational foundation for Open Source competency, HOSEF facilitates economic development and academic innovation. Issues of security, sovereignty, self-reliance, and sustainability are adequately addressed with Open Source Software, and HOSEF endeavors to make this case.
Intelsat Intelsat is a global communications provider offering flexible and secure services to customers in over 200 countries and territories. Intelsat has maintained
a leadership position for over 40 years by distributing video, voice, and data for television and content providers, government and military entities, major corporations, telecommunications carriers, and Internet service providers. Intelsat’s reach, power and expanding solutions portfolio deliver information reliably and quickly to every corner of the globe. For more information, visit www.intelsat.com.
IOT Systems, LLC is a complete satellite services company. Our staff comprises highly skilled and experienced scientists and engineers of the former COMSAT Laboratories. We bring an unsurpassed level of experience to the table. Our heritage from COMSAT includes over 40 years of experience with communications satellite systems and services. We offer a variety of products and services. Some of IOT Systems' products are Standard In-Orbit Test (IOT) System, Communication Satellite Monitoring (CSM) System, Antenna Verification Program, and Radiometer Systems. Also, Satellite Business, Financial, and Marketing Services, Satellite Systems Consulting, and Satellite Engineering and Operations Services are only a few of the services IOT provides.

KT Corporation (KT) is the largest telecom operator in Korea and is the leading broadband service provider in the world. Recently, KT is focusing on the next-generation mobile communication, home networking, media, IT, and digital content services. KT will persist in its efforts to create higher added value to the customers through such services.

On the passage to become a great company, KT intends to get closer to its customers as a Wonder Creator. KT has successfully pursued customer satisfaction to the extreme over the years, and now KT is doing its best to provide wonders to the everyday life of its customers by reaching far beyond the bounds of mere satisfaction.

Loral Skynet
A trusted name in Asia, the Pacific and throughout the satellite industry worldwide, Loral Skynet offers solutions that combine the last-mile benefits of satellite with the cost-efficiencies of an established global fiber infrastructure. Skynet’s global satellite fleet and worldwide fiber network provides Fortune 1000 companies, ISPs, enterprises, broadcasters, and government organizations a unique, single source for all broadcast, data network, Internet access, IP and systems integration services.

Macquarie Telecom is a leading supplier of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions - including voice, data, mobile and hosting - specialising in the business and government markets. The world class Intellicentre facility offers state-of-the-art hosting and security solutions.

Macquarie Telecom provides services to more than 2,500 of the top companies in the Asia Pacific, supporting more than one million business users at work every day. Founded in July 1992, it is one of Asia Pacific's first deregulated telecommunications companies. It expanded its operation into Asia in 2000 as one of the first deregulated era carriers in Singapore and, holds carrier licences in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Nexans

Nexans Norway, a unit of Nexans Worldwide, is the second largest cable manufacturer in the world with 18,000 employed in industrial sites in 39 countries and commercial activities in 65 countries.

It is a world leader in energy and umbilical cables, and a major supplier of fiber optic unrepeatered cables on over 110 projects for 120 clients.

Nexans Norway, is headquartered in Oslo, with five manufacturing sites within the country, having a total headcount of 780 employees.

Through its owned and operated fleet of 24 satellites, PanAmSat is a leading global provider of video, broadcasting and network distribution and delivery services. In total, the fleet is capable of reaching over 98 percent of the world's population through cable television systems, broadcast affiliates, direct-to-home operators, ISPs and telecommunications companies. Additionally, PanAmSat supports the largest concentration of satellite-based business networks in the U.S., including disaster recovery and bandwidth-on demand solutions, as well as specialized communications services in remote areas worldwide.
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (Paul Hastings) is an international law firm, with a network of 17 offices linking the world’s leading financial and commercial centers. With more than 1,000 lawyers, we serve clients from all regions of the globe and covering all industries. Breadth and depth in practice,
geography and industry enables us to respond to the growing complexity of our clients ’ businesses.
Paul | Weiss Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a world-class law firm with more than 500 lawyers in New York, Washington, London, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo. Few firms can match the breadth and depth of skill provided by its leading corporate and litigation practices. The firm is equally recognized as having one of the world’s leading practices in communications and technology. Its ability to deliver sound counsel to clients is reflected in the firm’s range of projects, from traditional regulatory and transactional work in telecommunications and media to representation involving advanced technologies, convergence and the Internet. Chambers Global — The World’s Leading Lawyers 2005–06 recognizes
“ Paul, Weiss for its work in Asia, particularly in Greater China and has consistently been named Asia’s ‘IT/Telecommunications Law Firm of the Year.’” Additionally, European Counsel has called the firm’s communications practice “one of the strongest in Washington.”
PCCW Global PCCW Limited (SEHK: 0008, NYSE ADR: PCW) is the premier telecommunications provider in Hong Kong and a leader in Information and Communications Technologies in Asia. While expanding opportunities in mainland China in partnership with China Network Communications Group Corporation, PCCW continues to enhance Hong Kong's role as a regional center of technological excellence through innovative services in new generation fixed-line and mobile telephony, broadband, information technology, wireless communications, and IPTV, through its successful now Broadband TV network. Internationally, PCCW is proceeding with the phased rollout of a sophisticated wireless broadband network in the United Kingdom. The Company also provides cutting edge technical services to network operators worldwide. Through its subsidiary, Pacific Century Premium Developments Limited, PCCW is engaged in property development. A new business unit PCCW Global (formed by merging the International section of its Commercial Group with its wholly owned subsidiary BtN Access, Inc. (Beyond the Network)), offers a wide range of international data and voice services with a full suite of value-added services, including business class Private Leased Line, IP, ATM/Frame Relay, and Hosted PBX Solutions to carriers, service providers and enterprises over its global network with coverage spanning over 69 countries and over 500 cities globally.
Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) is a leading provider of high-speed Internet, data, video and voice services. With approximately 40,000 employees, Qwest is committed to the "Spirit of Service" and providing world-class services that exceed customers' expectations for quality, value and reliability. For more information, please visit the Qwest Web site at www.qwest.com.
Rostelecom The JSC Rostelecom is the biggest telecom-munications company in Russia, the national operator of domestic and international long-distance telecommunications. Rostelecom provides transmission of the bulk of long-distance and international traffic, operation of the land network of television and radio broadcasting channels, affords transit communication services to foreign operators via its network on the Russian territory as well as a wide range of state-of-the-art communication services.
SES Americom SES Americom
The largest supplier of satellite services in the U.S., SES AMERICOM, Inc. is recognized as a pioneer of global satellite communications services. The company currently operates a fleet of 16 spacecraft in orbital positions predominantly providing service throughout the Americas. In 2001, the company established AMERICOM Government Services. With its combined operations, SES AMERICOM serves broadcasters, cable programmers, aeronautical and maritime communications integrators, Internet service providers, mobile communications networks, government agencies, educational institutions, carriers and secure global data networks with efficient communication and content distribution solutions.
TELUS is the largest telecommunications company in Western Canada and the second largest in the country, with $7.9 billion of annual revenue, 4.7 million network access lines, 4.1 million wireless customers and almost 1 million Internet customers. TELUS is one of Canada's leading providers of data, Internet Protocol (IP), voice and wireless communications services. We provide and integrate a full range of communications products and services that connect Canadians to the world. For more information about TELUS, please visit www.telus.com

Verizon is one of the largest telecommunication providers with presence in two-thirds of the top 100 U.S. markets. With Verizon, you get the advantage of a national presence that is concentrated in some of the largest markets in the U.S., allowing you to reach more customers.

Verizon offers a full set of solutions from Ethernet, IP and Optical services to the basic building blocks of database and voice services. We have a full complement of value-added, competitively priced services to help you be successful in this competitive marketplace.

So trust a dependable service provider who has been addressing the needs of wholesale customers for more than 20 years. Visit us online at verizon.com/wholesale or call us at 888-483-9594.

Virtela is a global secure network solutions company serving many of the world's largest and fastest-growing multinational companies. Virtela's unique Global Service Fabric, enabled by relationships with more than 230 carriers worldwide, offers the foundation for a managed services suite that includes IP- and MPLS-based VPNs, security, Voice & Video over IP and network consulting services.

For partners, Virtela serves as a premier global delivery arm for out of region networking, providing single source access to best-in-class regional and global backbones, as well as for procurement and installation of equipment and last mile access, high performance backbone transport, and ongoing maintenance and monitoring around the world.

 

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