Sponsors and Corporate Contributors
Sponsors
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AT&T |
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AT&T Inc. is the largest communications holding company in the United States
and worldwide, by revenue. Operating globally under the AT&T brand, AT&T is recognized as the leading worldwide provider of IP-based communications services to businesses and the leading U.S. provider of wireless, high speed Internet access, local and long distance voice, and directory publishing and advertising services. As part of its "three screen" integration strategy, AT&T is expanding video entertainment offerings to include such next-generation television services as AT&T U-verseSM TV. |
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Nokia Siemens Networks |
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Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of communications services. The company provides a complete, well-balanced product portfolio of mobile and fixed network infrastructure solutions and addresses the growing demand for services with 20,000 service professionals worldwide. Nokia Siemens Networks is one of the largest telecommunications infrastructure companies with operations in 150 countries |
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Georgia Institute of Technology |
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The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premiere research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech's more than 18,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute. During the 2004-2005 academic year, Georgia Tech reached $357 million in new research award funding. The Institute also maintains an international presence with campuses in France and Singapore and partnerships throughout the world. More about Georgia Tech at http://www.gatech.edu.
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Mobilesphere |
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Georgia Tech Mobilesphere exists to accelerate innovation in mobility and convergence by enabling communities of collaboration. Members of GTMobilesphere are leaders in wireless, telecom, and cable, plus equipment, application, and content providers. GTMobilesphere provides researchers from across campus with access to unique network infrastructure in a realistic operational setting. GTMobilesphere leverages the unique position of GT as a pre-eminent network and network service hub in the state, the region and increasingly in the world.
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GEDC |
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The Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) supports world-class research, active and solution-oriented industry collaboration, intellectual property generation and revenue generating commercialization efforts. GEDC collaborates with more than 45 member companies and federal agency partners, conducting approximately $12 million in research each year. GEDC's research is broadly focused on fostering technology at the intersection of today's communications applications: wireless/RF, wired/copper and fiber channels. The activities of GEDC provide the State of Georgia the opportunity to grow and expand its technology leadership in the design of broadband (high-speed) communications systems, devices and integrated circuits.
The Center is specifically focused on enabling the mobile internet with innovative research on mixed-signal systems which are at the boundary between telecommunications, microelectronics, analog/RF and sensing technologies. These efforts produce partnerships with industry that attract new jobs to the state and support smaller, start-up companies that create new jobs for Georgians. |
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Nokia |
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Nokia is providing IMS capable Nokia N80 multimedia computers to the 3G/IMS laboratory to support the development of the next generation of IMS-based mobile applications. Nokia is a world leader in mobile communications, driving the growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia connects people to each other and the information that matters to them with easy-to-use and innovative products like mobile phones, devices and solutions for imaging, games, media and businesses.
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jNetX |
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jNetX was founded in 2001 to develop and market the key service components of truly programmable SS7 and IP networks and to make these components pervasive throughout networks worldwide. The jNetX platform allows operators to cost effectively and quickly deploy a wide range of integrated voice and data communications services which can be personalized by end users to meet their communication needs.
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BEA |
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BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. BEA® Enterprise 360° is the industry's most advanced approach for building a Liquid Enterprise™. This comprehensive offering combines our product technologies, people, best practices, and broad network of partners to deliver maximum business value to our customers.
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Sun |
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Sun Microsystems Inc., provides network computing infrastructure solutions that include computer systems, software, storage, and services. Its core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating system, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor.
By investing in research and development Sun creates products and services that address the complex issues that customers face today, including increasing demands for network access, bandwidth and storage being driven by explosive growth in network participation and sharing.
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Ubiquity |
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In support of the 3G/IMS lab, Ubiquity will donate licenses of its award-winning SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) Application Server (SIP A/S), and its advanced SOOF (Service Oriented Object Framework) architecture for enabling real-time applications. Ubiquity’s Service Components, a set of pre-built, re-useable software building blocks for rapid creation and management of converged applications, will enable students to incorporate application capabilities that leverage Siemens Mobile Presence Manager (Presence status), Community Service Data Manager (Group list management), Instant Messaging and Chat, and Push and Talk over Cellular. Ubiquity will also support the 3G/IMS lab with training and related support services.
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