Due to its innovative, open and pragmetic approach the Amsterdam Internet Exchange developed into one of the lead Internet Exchanges in the world. Interconnecting over 450 IPnetworks the Exchange strives to realize the principal, neutral IP interconnection marketplace worldwide. Offering world-class quality performance and to operate a future proof platform securing future traffic growth. It’s renowned engineering team and innovative technical platform have allowed AMS-IX to become the first Exchange to offer 100GE, Inter-IPX and SLA’s.
For more information, please visit www.ams-ix.net
Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa. Thecompany offers 3G voice & data services, fixed line, high speed broadband, IPTV, DTH, turnkey telecom solutions for enterprises and national & international long distance services to carriers in India. In rest of the geographies it offers mobile voice & high speed wireless internet. Bharti Airtel has been ranked among the six best performing technology companies in the world by BusinessWeek. Bharti Airtel had over 234 million customers across its operations at the end of September 2011.To know more please visit, www.airtel.com
BICS delivers best in class global solutions for Voice, Messaging, Roaming, Connectivity and Mobile Financial Services to hundreds of telecommunication providers around the world. With our passionate and creative teams located in Brussels, Bern, Monaco, Dubai, Singapore and New York, we continuously strive to provide our customers with the highest levels of quality, reliability and interoperability that enable them to maximise End-user value. Our innovative approach is visible through our place at the forefront of the market consolidation and technology advancement. We are a joint venture of Belgacom, Swisscom and MTN, and have rolled out transformative Next Generation Networks (NGN). This together with our continued focus on Value Added Services for Mobile Operators and our growth strategy has enabled us to reach a world-leading position both on the International Voice and Mobile Data markets.
For more information, please visit: www.bics.com
Colt is Europe’s leading information delivery platform, enabling its customers to deliver, share, process and store their vital business information. An established leader in delivering integrated computing and network services to major organisations, midsized businesses and wholesale customers, Colt operates a 21-country, 35,000km network that includes metropolitan area networks in 39 major European cities with direct fibre connections into 17,000 buildings and 19 Colt data centres. In 2010, the Colt Data Centre Services business was launched to deliver innovative high quality modular data centres which are rapid to deploy and power efficient. Information about Colt and its services can be found at www.colt.net.
Company TTK is the nation-wide backbone telecom operator focused on providing high quality wholesale capacity and voice services to international carriers along the shortest intercontinental Europe – Asia route using advantages of the largest national–wide and fully redundant network in Russia as well as double-ring topology at its major international links. Today TTK’s fiber optic network exceeds 55,000 km and consists of over 1000 national points of presence (PoPs). Total length of DWDM network reaches 30,000 km. Our network reaches the borders of Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Baltic States, Poland, Finland, Mongolia, North Korea, China and Japan. Company TTK established 20 international gateways and PoPs in London, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Hong Kong. Company TTK is fully licensed for international operations and transit services.
For more information, please visit www.ttk.ru
Global Capacity is a telecommunications information and logistics company that improves the efficiency and reduces the cost ofaccess networks globally. Through its One Marketplace Access Exchange, the Company brings together customers and suppliersin an automated platform that provides ubiquitous access network solutions. Global Capacity delivers its innovative solutions toPurpose-Built Integrators, Telecommunication Carriers, Managed Service Providers, and Enterprise Customers globally.To learn more about Global Capacity, visit www.GlobalCapacity.com
GTS Central Europe is a leading provider of integrated telecommunications solutions in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. GTS has an extensive regional fibre network throughout the CEE region with network extensions to neighbouring countries such as Austria, the Balkans, the Baltic States, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. In the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Romania, GTS has deep metro networks which provide data, Ethernet, IP/MPLS and voice services for telecommunication carriers, business customers and mobile operators.
For more information, please visit www.gtsce.com
Launching service in 2011, GBI is the Middle East’s first privately owned submarine cable operator. GBI’s Cable System will connect all the countries of the Gulf region to each other and provide onward connectivity to Europe, Africa and Asia. Utilizing the latest subsea fiber cable technology and with a design capacity of up to 5 terabits per second on certain cable sections, GBI will address the forecast growth in traffic originating and terminating in the Gulf. GBI’s cable system will provide telecom operators, in the region and globally, with greater choice, value, diversity and resilience.
For more information please visit us at: www.gbiinc.com
Hutchison Global Communications Limited is a full-fledged international telecom operator under Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 215), a group member of Hutchison Whampoa Limited (Stock Code: 13). Established in 1995, HGC owns Hong Kong’s largest fibre-to-the-building network. With the deployment of submarine and terrestrial cable systems, HGC establishes scalable global capacity and far-reaching international network connecting Hong Kong with most parts of the world. HGC has a widespread footprint in Asia and its network reach has been extended to the US, Europe, the Middle East and Africa via cooperation with carriers around the world.
For more information, please visit http://www.hgc-intl.com
Interoute is the owner operator of Europe’s most advanced and densely connected voice and data network, encompassing over 55,000 km of lit fibre, 8 hosting centres and 32 colocation facilities. Named Best pan-European Wholesale provider by Capacity for 4 consecutive years from 2006 to 2009 and voted the Best Regional Operator at the World Communications Awards in 2010, it’s full-service next generation network serves international enterprises from a broad range of sectors, plus every major European incumbent, as well as the major operators of North America, East and South Asia, governments, universities and research agencies. These organisations find Interoute the ideal partner for hosting content, providing wholesale bandwidth and transit services, corporate connectivity or creating new services. With established operations throughout mainland Europe, North America and Dubai, Interoute also connects Europe to Africa via SEACOM. Interoute owns and operates dense city networks throughout Europe’s major business centres and more than €1 billion in e-commerce transactions flows through its data centres each day.
For more information, please visit www.interoute.com
Interxion owns and operates 55,800m2 of colocation space within 28 data centers in 11 countries across Europe. As a leading pan-European provider of co-location and associated managed services, Interxion delivers a full set of services that allow more than 1,100 companies to securely house, connect, monitor and maintain mission-critical IT equipment. Interxion services start with basic co-location (cabinets, cages, private rooms) and range up to fully-outsourced data center solutions for disaster recovery and total operational resilience. With 18 European internet exchanges and 350 carriers and ISPs, Interxion offers high connectivity across Europe. Interxion offers a highly cost-effective, resilient and flexible service for every organization type.
For more information, please visit www.interxion.com
Jazztel is a Spanish Carrier mainly focused in the Retail Market, where we provide Quadruple Play services (50Mbps ADSL, IP TV, fixed an mobile voice) to more than one million costumers. We also hold a strong position in the Reseller and Prepaid Card markets in Spain, with market quotas over 20%, which provides us with 8 million euros of retail traffic per month, plus another 7 million euros from our Wholesale Unit. We are very strong in Spain, North and Western Africa, and obviously in South America. Jazztel is present in the Spanish Stock Market and all our financial information is audited and publicly available.
For more information please visit www.jazztel.com
LIT Networks, a subsidiary of the Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative (MBC), will be offering a new, highly diverse optical backbone route between 60 Hudson Street in New York to 56 Marietta Street in Atlanta, Georgia. This route is diverse from any major carrier backbone, avoids the Washington DC market, and complements carriers who need diverse layer 1 optical transport services for 1G, 2.5G or 10G services. Powered by our Infinera digitaloptical network, we will offer highly diverse and competitively priced transport services.
For more information, contact Tad Deriso, President & CEO at tad@mbc-va.com
MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Submarine Cable System (MENA -SCS) is a subsidiary of Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH ). MENA - SCS intends to develop, construct, own and operate a submarine telecommunications system connecting Europe to the Middle East and South East Asia. MENA -SCS spans three continents (Europe, Africa and Asia), initially six countries (Italy, Egypt, KSA , Oman, India and in conjunction with TW1, OTH cable to UAE and Pakistan ), two seas (Med Sea and Red Sea) and one ocean (Indian Ocean). MENA -SCS is a six pairs fibre cable, each pair is expandable up to 96 wavelengths multiplied by 10Gb/s for each which means an ultimate capacity 5.76Tb/s
For more information, please visit www.mena-scs.com
Operating in more than 35 countries, France Telecom - Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators. The Group has a total customer base of 221 million customers. Orange is among the leaders in Europe for mobile and broadband internet and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinationalcompanies. Being present on both retail and wholesale markets, we have a global, in-depth understanding of the industry. Our dedicated wholesale teams on four continents, allow customers to benefit from our comprehensive wholesale product portfolio for voice, mobile, internet and bandwidth.
For more information, please visit www.orange.com/wholesalesolutions
Pantel is a leading alternative telecommunication operator in the CEE region and Turkey. It provides a full range of Internet/data services, infrastructure and wholesale voice services to incumbents, alternative carriers, mobile operators, cable TV companies, Internet service providers and corporate customers. Pantel is owned 100% by Turk Telekom and represents the international division of Turk Telekom plus the former Invitel International. Pantel provides single account management and unified network operations over the entire Pantel network which includes: 19 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey, Middle East andthe Caucasus. Pantel offers premium quality telecommunication solutions in the form of: guaranteed SLA-s, local experts, dedicated staff, centralized end-to-end network management, trustworthy and reliable attitude, delivering on commitments, on-time delivery, tailor-made, scalable and cost-effective technical solutions and a proven management team with a full service portfolio.For more information, please visit www.pantel.co
Rostelecom is the leading telecommunications operator in Russia serving over 40 million retail customers. Rostelecom’s 160,000 km network spans throughout the Russian Federation with extensions into Europe, Asia, CIS and Baltic countries. The company has international POPs in London, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Hong-Kong. Based on its countrywide network, Rostelecom offers high-capacity terrestrial route “Transit Europe-Asia” (TEA) for traffic transmission from Europe via Russia to China and Japan. This allows Rostelecom to be a strong partner on the wholesale market, providing services to more than 600 fixed and mobile operators, international carriers, ISPs and content providers. For more information, please visit www.rt.ru
Our globally recognised Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice is a multi-disciplinary group of lawyers with specialist skills covering all aspects of the TMT sector. This broad coverage of the sector means we are perfectly positioned to advise TMT clients on any legal or commercial issues they may be facing. With a proven track record in advising clients across all three disciplines - from start up companies to some of the sectors largest players - our lawyers have been involved in some of the industry's landmark cases and deals and advise regularly on sector defining projects. Our strong focus on the TMT sector and deep understanding of the market driven imperatives are a clear benefit to our clients. By being fully immersed in our clients commercial landscape, we are able to reflect their business drivers in the solutions and advice we provide, positioning us as trusted business advisors.
For more information, please visit www.simmons-simmons.com
Sprint offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to wholesalers, businesses, government and consumer users. Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the United States and an award-winning global Tier 1 internet backbone. SprintWholesale provides customized wireless, M2M, wireline and VOIP services to hundreds of partners world-wide, who in turn serve millions of end-user customers. By reselling our leading-edge, world class assets in white-label form, Sprint has become a preferred provider of wholesale telecommunications solutions for businesses around the world. Sprint Wholesale thrives on helpingour partners bring their unique ideas to life.
For more information on Sprint Wholesale Solutions, please visit: http://www.PowerYourIdeas.com
ICSS, the international wholesale arm of Deutsche Telekom Group, is one of the leading voice carriers worldwide and an increasingly important IP player across a growing European market with excellent interregional connections between Europe, the Americas and Asia. With continuously changing markets, ICSS has added to its portfolio advanced innovative wholesale services and customized IP solutions, along with traditional voice and transport services. The business activities and efforts of ICSS focus on serving the following market segments: broadband operators (ISPs, WISPs, and VoIP SPs), mobile operators and MVNOs, content, application and media providers, corporate service providers and VNOs, fixed voice carriers, and carriers’ carriers and their customers through a worldwide sales network. The basis for the delivery of the services of ICSS is an expanding ultramodern infrastructure - Deutsche Telekom’s international network.
For more information, please visit www.deutschetelekom.com/icss
Tata Communications is a leading global provider of a new world of communications. With a leadership position in emerging markets, Tata Communications leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its global and pan-India network to deliver managed solutions to multi-national enterprises, service providers and Indian consumers. The Tata Global Network includes one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, with connectivity to more than 200 countries across 400 PoPs, and nearly 1 million square feet of data center and collocation space worldwide. Tata Communications’ depth and breadth of reach in emerging markets includes leadership in Indian enterprise data services, leadership in global international voice, and strategic investments in operators in South Africa (Neotel), Sri Lanka (Tata Communications Lanka Limited) and Nepal (United Telecom Limited). Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India and its ADRs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. (NYSE : TCL)
For more information, please visit www.tatacommunications.com
Telecom Italia Sparkle is a leading global telecommunication service provider, offering a complete range of Voice, Data and Internet solutions designed to meet the ever-changing needs of Fixed and Mobile Carriers, ISPs, Content Providers, Multimedia Players and Corporate Customers. With a history of experience and know-how in a multitude of markets, Telecom Italia Sparkle owns and manages a global and technologically advanced proprietary network which comprises of three major regional systems in Europe, the Mediterranean and Latin America, in order to guarantee the availability of high quality, end-to-end infrastructure in areas of strategic focus. In addition, our bilateral networks connect us with virtually every country worldwide. Through a global portfolio of services, a state-of-the-art global network, advanced OSS, BSS and customer care capabilities, and through an extensive worldwide commercial presence, we are able to fulfil our mission of providing customers with the best cost and top performing services on the international telecommunications market.
For more information, please visit www.tisparkle.com
Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM), Malaysia’s leading integrated information and communications group, offers a comprehensive range of communication services and solutions in broadband, data and fixed-line. As a market leader in the broadband and fixed-line businesses, TM is driven to deliver value to its stakeholders in a highly competitive environment. The Group places emphasis on continuing customer service quality enhancements and innovations. With its extensive global connectivity, TM is poised to position Malaysia as a regional Internet hub and digital gateway for South-East Asia. In line with this, TM is evolving into a Next Generation Network service provider enabling the Group to enhance its efficiency and productivity while providing enriched productsand services. On the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) front, the Group has always been a major corporate contributor towards responsible activities in the belief that these practices are a fundamental tenet of good corporate governance. The Group promotes 3 major platforms i.e. education, sports development and community/nation-building. Under education, TM has spent some RM800 million to develop Multimedia University into one of the top universities in Malaysia with more than 20,000 students. TM has also provided scholarships to over 10,000 graduates pursuing academic programmes locally and overseas. On the sports front, TM is actively contributing towards the upliftment of football at all levels while under the community/nation-building platform, the Group contributes towards causes that bring value to the community and nation at large.
For further information on TM, visit www.tm.com.my
UPC Wholesale is a unit of Liberty Global, Inc., the leading international cable operator servicing 18 million customers across 14 countries principally located in Europe, Chile and Australia. UPC Wholesale offers a complete range of access, voice and internet services to carriers, ISPs and mobile operators in Europe. It provides services over own networks, based on thousands of kilometers of fiber, advanced data and IP network platforms and its VOIP switching system with thepromise: your ambition, our commitment.For more information, please visit www.upcbusiness.com/wholesale
Verizon Global Wholesale offers a broad portfolio of value-added, competitively priced services to assist domestic and international telecommunications service providers in reaching their goals. We offer innovative solutions coupled with world class expertise and global reach on an state-of-the-art network. With Verizon Global Wholesale, customers receive wholesale voice, data and Internet services on one of the world’s largest and most reliable backbone networks. With specialized pricing, support options, and a dedicated team of specialists focused on your wholesale requirements, Verizon Global Wholesale provides the relationship you need today for the business you want tomorrow. Contact email: wholesale@verizon.com
For more information, please visit www.verizonbusiness.com/wholesale
VTLWaveNet, part of the Viatel group, focuses on the European wholesale market. VTLWaveNet combines the advanced fibre optic backbone network with metro reach into the major business centres accessing carrier houses, data centres and the main Internet Exchanges. This enables us to offer our customers leased lines, wavelengths, Ethernet, IP-Transit, co-location and dark fibre services. Because we own the underlying infrastructure and equipped the network with the latest high capacity optical DWDM technology and multi service platforms, we can offer these services fast, very cost effectively, at all speeds and with all the routing and (low) latency information required.For more information, please visit www.vtlwavenet.com
Capacity Europe is the Q4 must-attend of our industry and is one of the few business gatherings where you can catch all the decision-makers and start working on deals to be inked in the new year
Nicola Tordela, SVP, Telecom Italia Sparkle