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For exhibitors, the W2i Digital Cities Convention can be a unique venue to both deliver, or learn of, a major press announcement and/or product release.
For further information on sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities, contact Daniel Aghion, Executive Director of W2i, at or (617) 439-5400.
Platinum Sponsors
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| IBM is a leader in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronics. |
| For 35 years, Intel Corporation has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers and networking and communications products. These products are used by industry members to create advanced computing and communications systems. |
| Motorola is a Fortune 100 global communications leader that provides seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks. In your home, auto, workplace and all spaces in between, seamless mobility means you can reach the people, things and information you need, anywhere, while on the go. Seamless mobility harnesses the power of technology convergence and enables smarter, faster, cost-effective and flexible communication. Motorola had sales of US $31.3 billion in 2004. |
Charter Program Sponsors
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| Alvarion is a worldwide leader in wireless broadband providing systems to carriers, ISPs and private network operators. The company's products enable the delivery of business and residential broadband access, corporate VPNs, mobile base station feeding, hotspot coverage extension, community interconnection, and public safety communications. |
| Cisco Systems, Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, this year celebrates 20 years of commitment to technology innovation, industry leadership and corporate social responsibility. |
| Tropos Networks, Inc. is the leading supplier of systems used to build metro-scale, outdoor Wi-Fi networks. Tropos’ unique Wi-Fi cells, along with the first element manager to control large Wi-Fi networks, enable public agencies and service providers to deliver ubiquitous, city-wide mobile broadband to users in any locale. These carrier-class IP networks are low cost and easy to install and scale. The Tropos cellular mesh architecture and use of optimized open-standard radios dramatically reduce the need for wired backhaul while eliminating expensive proprietary clients and complex software. Using the patented Predictive Wireless Routing Protocol, Tropos solutions deliver maximum bandwidth to the user regardless of conditions, at unprecedented Wi-Fi network scale. |
Event Sponsors
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"EarthLink revolves around youTM." Celebrating ten years as a leading national Internet service provider (ISP), Atlanta-based EarthLink has earned an award-winning reputation for outstanding customer service and its suite of online products and services. Serving more than five million subscribers, EarthLink offers what every user should expect from their Internet experience: high-quality connectivity, minimal drop-offs and ISP-generated intrusions, and customizable features. Whether it's dial-up, high-speed, Web hosting, or wireless Internet service, EarthLink provides the tools that best let individuals use and enjoy the Internet on their own terms.
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| HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended Jan. 31, 2005, HP revenue totaled $81.8 billion |
| WazMetro operates the various municipal networks owned and operated by NeoReach Wireless, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of MobilePro Corporation, a publicly traded company [NASDAQ symbol = MOBL]. NeoReach Wireless is a wireless technology and broadband telecommunications company focused on the deployment of wide-area Wi-Fi and pre-WiMAX networks. NeoReach's collective group of networks function through joint partnerships with government municipalities and private-sector relationships. |
| SR Telecom is a leading provider of broadband fixed wireless access (BFWA) technology. For over two decades, the Company's products and solutions have been used by service providers to deliver advanced telecommunications services to both urban and remote areas around the globe. SR Telecom's product have been deployed in over 130 countries. |
Event Exhibitors
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| Airpath Wireless, Inc. is “Clearing the way,” enabling providers to easily manage their wireless broadband networks and roaming. Using its powerful hosted-software applications, Airpath enables providers with the flexible tools and services to manage their Wi-Fi networks and roaming activities, offering seamless, global access to wireless broadband services across disparate networks on a global scale. Founded in 2001, the company is a privately held, venture-funded corporation with lead investments from Boston Millennia Partners. It is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with additional support offices in Toledo, Ohio and customer representation in Singapore. |
The BelAir Networks solution offers low-cost network deployment for large wireless LANs, and can deliver Wi-Fi access over large areas in dense urban environments.
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| Firetide is a privately held wireless mesh technology company that develops networking equipment to deploy high performance, scalable wireless mesh networks quickly, easily and affordably. Firetide's Instant Networking solution is ideal for building backbone infrastructure for Wi-Fi networks, video surveillance, and temporary networks in a variety of environments, such as Internet access HotZones, airports, hotels, campus environments or other locations where wiring is too difficult or expensive to install. Investors include Menlo Ventures, HMS Ventures, Hawaiian Electric Industries, and Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners. |
InfiNet Wireless is a leading global vendor of Last Mile connectivity solutions utilizing Fixed Broadband Wireless Access (FBWA) and emerging WiMAX technologies. InfiNet Wireless’ products represent over 10 years of engineering efforts by our world-class Russian development laboratories coupled with extensive field experience in design and deployment in many countries of Europe, Russia, China, SE Asia and the Middle East.
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| NextPhase Wireless is a connectivity company that specializes in delivering integrated Internet, voice and data communication solutions to its customers. The company designs, deploys and operates its own wireless networks and also provides wireless technology solutions to businesses and municipalities. Leveraging its full-service capabilities and world-class infrastructure, NextPhase Wireless offers a comprehensive portfolio of broadband solutions that meet customers' needs today, and can anticipate and grow to meet their needs of tomorrow. |
| Nomadix is the leading provider of intelligent network devices and interconnect services that make nomadic computing easy. The company offers the Nomadix Service Engine" (NSE), which allows the public access service operators and venue owners to deploy a cost effective, secure and easy to use high-speed Internet access offering. Nomadix Interconnect ServicesTM are a suite of services that provide intelligent roaming connectivity, content and application delivery in conjunction with the NSE and other public access networks. |
Pronto Networks provides carrier-class Operations Support Systems (OSS) that enable network operators to deploy and manage large public hot spot networks. The company's software handles provisioning, configuration, authentication, access control, security, pre-paid and post-paid billing, and roaming settlement for large public WLAN networks, in addition to remotely managing and updating multi-vendor hardware and Wi-Fi switches.
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| Redline Communications is a technology leader in the design and manufacture of standards-based broadband wireless access solutions. Redline is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum", and was first in the world to market an 802.16 compliant product. |
| SkyPilot Networks is a leading provider of carrier-class wireless broadband systems that enable carriers, network operators, and service providers of all sizes to easily deploy cost-effective last-mile IP-based services. The SkyPilot solution offers quick time-to-revenue and a compelling return-on-investment by extending reach, routing around obstacles, and increasing deployment flexibility, thereby dramatically reducing equipment and operating costs. The SkyPilot products provide a highly scalable and reliable wireless mesh network with a choice of subscriber access options. SkyPilot Networks is a privately held company based in Santa Clara, California. |
| Strix Systems designs, develops, and delivers high performance wireless mesh networking systems based on the company’s unique multi-radio, multi-channel and multi-RF wireless architecture. Sold globally by a network of integrators and resellers, these solutions address the high cost of hard-to-wire environments while providing the high throughput and low latency needed to support wireless voice, video, and data applications. Strix’s Access/One solutions provide scalable, reliable wireless connectivity in both indoor enterprise deployments as well as in the emerging outdoor public safety, municipal, and metropolitan Wi-Fi marketplace. |
| Vivato is a wireless systems infrastructure company with technology that is based upon an innovative signal processing and antenna design. Vivato’s unique system architecture enables cost-effective, large-scale indoor and outdoor wireless deployments at hotels, airports, seaports, warehouses, universities, enterprises, and in cities and towns. Vivato is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with a research and development center in Spokane, Washington. |
| Winncom Technologies Corp., a subsidiary of ARC Wireless Solutions Inc. (OTCBB:ARCS), is a value-added distributor providing wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi(R)) and broadband wireless products and services, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), virtual private networks (VPNs) and other wireless networking related products and services to resellers and partners throughout North America and Europe. Winncom has established a reputation as a leader in distributing wireless networking, with highly qualified sales, engineering and technical support personnel focused on these solutions. |
Showcase Participants
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| DIVONA , a subsidiary of the MONACO TELECOM manages an IP-based multimedia platform, offering corporations a range of satellite-borne data transfer services. Divona offers services throughout the W1 coverage area: from Norway to Morocco and from England to Ukraine as well as in the Middle East. Divona works on projects in other coverage areas according to the needs of its clients (Africa, Asia, etc.). |
| Wifi-Company started as a research facility inside wireless technologies’ scope and, more generally, aimed to solution development against digital divide. Wifi-Company has a primary attitude to design, aimed at developing advanced solutions for services optimisation (broadband, video- surveillance, IP telephony etc.) through the integration of diverse technologies (wireless, satellite, cable). |
Social Event Sponsors
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| Founded in 1931, Stone & Youngberg is a fixed-income securities firm headquartered in San Francisco, with regional offices in Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, San Diego, Sherman Oaks, CA, and Richmond, VA. As one of the leading underwriters of tax-exempt local government debt in the West, Stone & Youngberg underwrote over 190 new municipal bond issues in California, Arizona, Nevada, and four other states in 2004. In addition to underwriting, the firm provides investment services to individuals and institutions and offers a variety of tax-exempt and taxable securities. |
Media Sponsors
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| Broadband Wireless Exchange Magazine, which is the largest web site in the world dedicated to the broadband wireless industry, is an online publication that publishes news and many reference materials, such as news, white papers, tutorials, business directories, a trade show calendar and many other sources of information that are related to the Broadband Wireless industry. BWE's content enables readers, investors and businesses to find the information they need to do business in the broadband wireless industry. |
| The Center for Digital Government is a national research and advisory institute on information technology policies and best practices in state and local government. A private organization based in Folsom, Calif., the Center’s advisory services, online resources and special reports provide public- and private-sector leaders with decision support, knowledge and opportunities to help them effectively incorporate new technologies in the 21st century. |
| FierceWiFi is a free weekly email service covering business and technology developments in WiFi and the WLAN industry. Our mission is to contribute to your success by providing a high-quality, "presidential" email briefing that helps you save time and get ahead. |
| FierceWireless is the wireless industry's daily monitor - a free daily email service that helps you stay on top of the wireless and mobile Internet market. Our mission is to help executives save time and get a competitive edge by providing a high-quality, "presidential" email briefing every business day. |
| Public Technology Institute is a national non-profit technology research and development organization based in Washington, DC., representing local governments. Our mission is to bring the benefits of technology to local governments. Membership in PTI is open to all local governments. Membership fees are based on the population size of the jurisdiction. To fulfill our mission, and in recognition of the close collaboration we have enjoyed with industry, PTI has established a special membership category for our Industry Partners. |
| The goal for UnWireMyCity.com is to make bringing a wireless network to your city as easy as 1-2-3. The site provides useful, hands-on knowledge and references to help you unwire your city and bring the many benefits of a wireless network home to your town today. |
| WiMax.com (WiMax.com Broadband Solutions, Inc.) is the preeminent, unbiased online destination providing value added content and solutions related to WiMAX technology implementation and deployment. Through its offering of both original content and collaboration forums, WiMax.com is helping to shape the vision and real world implementation of IEEE 802.16 based technology. |
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