Special Edition Summit Newsletter - October 2008

Exclusive Summit Reception Gold Sponsor – Tiscali International Network
Tiscali International Network (“TINet”) is a pure play carrier business delivering International Wholesale Products (IP Transit, MPLS Pseudowires and Ethernet connectivity) to Carriers and Service Providers worldwide. Tiscali International Network provides ISPs with reliable connectivity to the Internet within 7 working days and gives content providers direct reach to all major eyeball networks. TINet IP/MPLS backbone counts over 100 IP-MPLS PoPs and extends over 16 European countries and across the United States, Canada, as well as Singapore and Hong Kong. Its Autonomous Systems (AS3257) in only 5 years has grown up to become a core ASN in the global Internet routing table as well as one of the top 10 global IPv4 backbones and the top IPv6 backbone worldwide. Additional information can be found at www.tiscali.net.

Gold sponsor – Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers a high-performance network infrastructure that creates a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network.

Silver sponsor – SHARCNET
The Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET) is a world-class consortium of 17 Ontario colleges, universities and research institutes in a “cluster of clusters” of high performance computers linked by advanced fiber optics. Its unique infrastructure is designed to meet the computational needs of researchers in diverse research areas and to facilitate the development of leading-edge tools for high performance computing grids.

Bronze sponsors

Bell
Bell is Canada's largest communications company, providing consumers with solutions to all their communications needs, including telephone services, wireless communications, high-speed Internet, digital television and voice over IP. Bell also offers integrated information and communications technology (ICT) services to businesses and governments, and is the Virtual Chief Information Officer (VCIO) to small and medium businesses (SMBs). Bell is wholly owned by BCE Inc.

Cogent
Cogent Communications is a Tier-One, multinational Internet Service Provider consistently ranked as one of the top 5 networks in the world. Cogent operates the largest capacity all-optical IP network backbone in existence with service in over 110 markets in more than 24 countries located in North America and Europe. As the price leader in the industry, Cogent remains committed to offering the lowest price guaranteed for a similar product or service. The combination of billing options, like month-to-month or annual, help make Cogent unique in the industry.

Colleges Ontario
Colleges Ontario is the voice of Ontario's 24 colleges of applied arts and technology. Ontario colleges serve about 200 communities throughout the province, delivering a wide range of career-focused education and training programs to more than 200,000 full-time and 250,000 part-time students.

IBM
Today’s networked economy has created a global business landscape and a mandate for business change. Integrated global economies have opened markets of new opportunity and new sources of skills. The Internet has enabled communication and collaboration across the world and brought with it a new computing model premised on continuous global connection. In that landscape, companies can distribute work and technology anywhere in the world. IBM is working with its clients to develop new business designs and technical architectures that allow their businesses the flexibility required to compete in this new landscape.

ABEL
ABEL (Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning) is a non-profit service that improves results through its professional learning curriculum and its virtual community where members share knowledge and collaborate with each other. Through the implementation of information communication technology (ICT), the ABEL program transforms learning by connecting people.

Partner sponsors
The Summit also has the support of several partner sponsors that are making significant financial and in-kind contributions towards the Summit, include Atria Networks, AUTO21, the Ontario Centres of Excellence, Polycom, Ryerson University, TechMediaReports, and the Ontario College of Art & Design.

Learn more about all the Summit sponsors and partners at www.orioncanariesummit.ca/sponsors.html.