TELECOM

Telecom, Networking and Mobile

Global issues

• ITU - International Telecommunication Union - Geneva
• ITU-T on e-business - MOU etc
• ITU publications

• SS#7 Consulting - Lee S Dryburgh
• SS#7 book

• Telegeography - statistics on world telephone traffic etc

• ETSI - European Telecommunication Standards Institute
• ETSI updates on Vimeo
• ETSI IPR database

• gsm.org/gsma.org - GSM Association
• TM Forum - eTOM model etc
• UMTS Forum
• ECTA - European Competitive Telecommunications Association

• EU - Cable Europe Association

• Internet Engineering Task Force
• IETF on Distributed Management & MIBs
• SIP - Session Initiation Protocol

• IEEE Committee on Network Operations & management

R and D

• Open Mobile Terminal Platform project

• BE - UGent - Luc Martens - HFC - Hybrid Fibre Coax networks

Consultants and tools - network planning & simulation

• NRCC - Network Resource Consultants and Company - tip from Willy Verhelst

• BE - Skyline - DataMiner used by eg Telenet
• BE - Comsof - spin-off UGhent - optical networks, cost management

• Opnet.com
• Analysis
• MIL3
• Network Outsourcing Association

Telco's and backbones

• Tik Vzw - Gebruikersvereniging telecom & internet

• Hermes - a carrier for carriers - TEN - GTS
• Equant - ex Sita

• INMARSAT

• BE - A.S.T.R.I.D. - Tetra

• Colt
• Worldcom
• MCI
• Versatel
• Scarlet - part of Belgacom
• Euphony

• UK - Vodafone
• UK - British Telecom (originally UK-focused)
• UK - Cable & Wireless (originally outward-focused)

• FR - France Telecom

• NL - Ziggo - cable operator
• NL - KPN.com - the incumbent Dutch operator
• NL - KPN Agora (intranet)

• BE - ISPmonitor.be

• BE - Belgacom
• BE - Belgacom's Information Security Manager
• BE - Belgacom Mobile - Proximus (owned by Belgacom/Vodafone)- NL: BEN

• BE - Mobistar - since 2002: part of Orange Group (France Telecom, Telinfo, ...)

• BE - Base (KPN)
• BE - KPN/Orange - history

• BE - Telenet - HFC network
• BE - Voo (Brussel)- HFC network

• BE - Codenet - 3000 km of own fiber - backbone & cityrings
• BE - InTouch - e.g. prepaid calling cards

• FR - France Telecom - Orange
• FR - SFR mobile
• FR - Numericable - cable

• NO - Telenor

• AF - Roshan - Karim Khoja - M-Paisa (mobile payment even without a bank account)

• UAE - Etisalat - Dubai
• UAE - du - Dubai

• Millicom - Tigo
• MTN - telecom for Africa
• Kenya - Safaricom

• CA - Telus Canada

Vendors

• CN - Huawei
• CN - ZTE (established 1985)

• FR - Alcatel
• FI - Nokia - also strong in security
• UK - Kingston SCL - Telco management sw
• DE - Siemens
• SE - Ericsson / Sony-Ericsson
• DE - Bosch Telecom

• IL - RADWARE
• IL - Amdocs
• IL - Converse
• IL - Nice

• Telsis - switches

• US - AT&T
• US - Lucent
• US - FORE - ATM switches
• CAN - Nortel

• NetScout
• Fluke - troubleshooting Catalysts, talking to SNMP agents, ...

Fora - associations

• EU - ETNO
• BE - Beltug
• UK - Telecommunications Managers Association - founded in 1967 - mainly UK network managers and consultants
• US - International Communications Association - founded in 1938 - influencing telecom policy at Capitol Hill and FCC

Sundry

• CaveBEAR - Etherfields
• Datacom magazine
• Public Network Europe - magazine