The Broadband Forum mission is to develop the full potential of broadband. Focused on home-to-core network and management solutions, our standards empower providers to achieve more with their broadband deployment. The Broadband Forum is a global consortium of approximately 200 leading industry players covering telecom equipment, computing, networking and service provider companies.

Established in 1994 as the ADSL Forum and later as the DSL Forum, the Broadband Forum has seen its work over the past 14 years evolve from addressing physical layer ADSL transport specifications to advanced transport and management specifications for all forms of broadband. With its union with the IP/MPLS Forum, the Broadband Forum is now the central body for next generation IP network specifications.

The Broadband Forum’s formal BroadbandSuite™ Release Program and all technical reports are publicly available.

For more information, please visit.. www.broadband-forum.org
 

Orange is the key brand of France Telecom, one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators. With almost 131 million customers, the Orange brand covers internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the Group operates.

At the end of 2009, France Telecom had sales of 44.8 billion euros (33.7 billion euros at 30 September, 2010). At 30 September 2010, the Group had a total customer base of more than 203 million customers in 32 countries. These include 144.5 million mobile customers and 13.3 million broadband internet (ADSL) customers world-wide.

Orange is the number three mobile operator and the number three provider of broadband internet services in Europe and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies.

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Cisco is the world-wide leader in networking, providing the broadest line of solutions for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings, across campuses, or globally. Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of the Internet and most corporate, education, and government networks world-wide.

Cisco is recognised as a pioneer, using the Internet to provide customer support, sell products, offer training, and manage finances. The tradition of innovation continues as Cisco creates leading products and key technologies to make the Internet more useful and dynamic in the years ahead.

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Cyan enables service providers to scale, simplify and transform metro, regional, wireless backhaul and data centre networks for more profitable packet-optical transport and management of services.

Economically scaling from 1 Gigabit to 10 Gigabit Ethernet, SONET/SDH or OTN transport rings to meshed multi-layer DWDM/ROADM grooming networks with 40G to 400G capacities per fibre, Cyan’s Z-Series is redefining transport and management scalability across access edge, metro and regional networks. Introducing a revolutionary new architecture, the Z-Series platforms support unprecedented scale from tens to hundreds of Gigabits of service capacity per card slot and Terabits of capacity per shelf.

As multi-layer transport scales across the network, Cyan’s revolutionary CyMS provides transformational planning, operations and management tools to optimise network design and utilisation for maximum network efficiency. Cyan backs the Z-Series products with advanced support services collectively yielding the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry.

For more information, please visit.. www.cyaninc.com
 

Juniper Networks® delivers innovative software, silicon, and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking for global service providers, leading enterprises, and public sector organisations. Our core routers, switches, and security hardware and software run the world’s largest and most demanding global networks.

Today, Juniper remains uniquely positioned to maintain industry leadership based on our core competencies in architecture, silicon design, and our open cross-network software platform that includes the popular Junos operating system, Junos Space network application platform, and Junos Pulse integrated network client. Juniper has an exclusive focus on providing solutions that solve the toughest and most complex networking problems—delivering on the promise of the “New Network.”

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Intune Networks was founded in Dublin in 1999 by John Dunne and Tom Farrell, both UCD graduates who were researching laser technology in European funded programmes. Over the next 10 years, Intune developed and refined its technology to solve a critical problem in the optical networking sector and this solution is now being brought to market as a family of telecom switch products.

Along the way, Intune supplied expertise and technology to many European and US research programmes building a customer base of the world’s leading academic and commercial research groups. Now, Intune is focussed on the telecoms equipment market where the next generation of digital service requirements such as quality of experience and high bandwidths are creating a new global opportunity.

Intune currently employs over 120 people and has design centres in Dublin and Belfast and sales offices in the UK and United States.

For more information, please visit.. www.intunenetworks.com
 

In tight economic times, being successful means realizing as much as possible from your existing telecom operations and capabilities. To do this involves understanding what your competitors are doing, how efficient and effective your own operations are, and what your customers are saying about you.

ACG Research offers a comprehensive program of services that addresses Managing and Selling at the Business Level and Strategic and Technical Product Planning. We help service providers and vendors design new business models that focus on understanding customers and the market.

Through ROI and TCO analysis, product and service message testing, and business model review, ACG Research provides answers to service providers and vendors so that they can grow their operations more efficiently and make business decisions with confidence.

For more information, please visit.. www.acgresearch.net
 

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) promotes the development and deployment of interoperable networking solutions and services through the creation of Implementation Agreements (IAs) for optical networking products, network processing elements, and component technologies.

Implementation agreements will be based on requirements developed cooperatively by end-users, service providers, equipment vendors and technology providers, and aligned with world-wide standards, augmented if necessary.

This is accomplished through industry member participation working together to develop specifications (IAs) for:

- External network element interfaces
- Software interfaces internal to network elements
- Hardware component interfaces internal to network elements

The OIF will create Benchmarks, perform world-wide interoperability testing, build market awareness and promote education for technologies, services and solutions. The OIF will provide feedback to world-wide standards organisations to help achieve a set of implementable, interoperable solutions.

For more information, please visit.. www.oiforum.com
 

The MEF is a global industry alliance comprising more than 160 organisations including telecommunications service providers, cable MSOs, network equipment/software manufacturers, semiconductors vendors, and testing organisations.

The MEF’s mission is to accelerate the world-wide adoption of carrier-class Ethernet networks and services. The MEF develops Carrier Ethernet technical specifications and implementation agreements to promote interoperability and deployment of Carrier Ethernet world-wide.

For more information, please visit.. www.metroethernetforum.org
 

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