Sponsors and Exhibitors

BT

Ruckus Wireless

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Ruckus Wireless is supplier of advanced wireless systems for the explosive mobile Internetworking market.
The company markets and manufactures a wide range of indoor and outdoor ³Smart Wi-Fi² products for mobile operators, broadband service providers, and corporate enterprises around the world. Ranked as the top telecom company by Inc. Magazine and named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Ruckus invented and has patented state-of-the-art wireless technology, such as adaptive antenna arrays that focus and direct Wi-Fi transmissions over the best signal path, automatically avoiding sources of Wi-Fi interference. Ruckus employs over 450 staff in 22 countries.
To date, the company has shipped over 3 million Smart Wi-Fi systems around the world and has raised $72 million in funding from premier investors.

Cisco

In today's absurdly competitive environment, there are far better ways of doing business than relying on the past. More efficient ways. Smarter ways. By building on the Cisco Intelligent Network, the most innovative companies – and, not surprisingly, the most successful one – are doing things they never could before. These are the companies that see the network for  exactly what it is: a means to building things that make them more valuable to their customers, more competitive, more secure and better able to affect their business in a positive way. And isn’t that what business is really all about?

BandwidthX

BandwidthX provides a mechanism for both mobile network operators and WiFi service providers to determine the value of capacity in real time.  The platform opens up a host of business opportunities for all participants in the Wi-Fi ecosystem including network operators and hotspot service providers as well as equipment and software vendors. This new form of commerce complements existing Wi-Fi offload and sales methods. Taking advantage of the BandwidthX platform is simple and easy. No changes are needed in the network or hotspots, connections are automatic, and no long-term commitments are required.

Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent innovations are regularly recognized by international institutions for their positive impact on society. In 2012
and for the second year running, Alcatel-Lucent was named one of the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators, recognition
for the company's continued addition to its world-class patent portfolio, one of the largest in the telecom industry.
Alcatel-Lucent has also been recognized for its sustainability performance. In 2012 the company was ranked Technology
Supersector Leader by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Through its innovations, Alcatel-Lucent is making communications
more sustainable, more affordable and more accessible as we pursue our mission of Realizing the Potential of a Connected World.

Intel
 
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world's computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com.

Devicescape

Devicescape redefines the "always best connected" mobile experience, going beyond Wi-Fi Offload to uniquely combine intelligent network selection with the world's largest curated virtual network of high-quality Wi-Fi hotspots. For mobile operators this carrier-grade service delivers an overnight, cost effective step change in network capacity-reach that doubles customer lifetime value (CLV) through elevated customer satisfaction, powerful new data management solutions, and Wi-Fi service generation. Devicescape’s Curator Service not only curates each subscriber connection in real-time, but also leverages Devicescape's patented, machine-learning algorithms, which constantly identify and qualify Wi-Fi connections for the best fit in meeting operator-set policies and user preferences.

Aptilo

Aptilo Networks is a leading provider of systems to manage mobile data services and policies for Wi-Fi, WiMAX and 3G/LTE networks, including mobile data offloading. Offloading starts with a carrier-class Wi-Fi service – a specialty that’s been Aptilo’s focus since 2001. Our carrier-class Wi-Fi service management platform is implemented in large-scale deployments with 90+ operators worldwide. This and our innovative integration with mobile core and OSS/BSS for policy and charging, together with the Aptilo SIM Authentication Server™, provide a holistic approach to offloading. The Aptilo Mobile Offloading solution was named “Best Mobile Offload Solution” at Global Broadband Traffic Management Congress 2011.

Front Porch

Reaching Subscribers with Front Porch In-Browser Notifications

Top broadband operators around the world deploy Front Porch to residential subscribers and Wi-Fi networks to cover large urban centers for communicating important information directly to fixed-line and mobile customers with our patented, IPv6 ready, device-optimized technology. Relevant content is delivered to your subscribers and to any roaming partners’ users with a browser-enabled device. Integration is simple with our highly scalable all-in-one architecture. Single Front Porch deployments exceed 15 million subscribers. Our SDK and powerful API support customized and seamless interoperation with providers’ existing B/OSS applications. The out-of-path installation eliminates networking risk to Internet service.
Front Porch customers use our messaging solution to accelerate revenue and reduce costs:

• Branding & app download promotion
• Service & maintenance notifications
• Bandwidth consumption gauge and alerts
• Targeted online promotions
• Billing and account management
• Driving traffic to any website you designate

Front Porch is the global leader in direct-to-browser customer communications. We deliver millions of messages every day to millions of subscribers in over 40 countries. Our experience since 1998 and proven reliability are assets for assuring your Internet customers’ satisfaction with their user experience. We invest heavily in compliance and protect privacy through industry-leading security. With Front Porch you can deliver the best messages to the right subscribers at the ideal time, optimized for the devices they use to browse wherever they surf without installing client side software.  When quality and performance matter most, Internet service providers chose Front Porch.

InterDigital

Based in London, InterDigital UK is the latest branch of InterDigital, Inc., which develops fundamental wireless technologies
that are at the core of mobile devices, networks, and services worldwide. We solve many of the industry's most critical and
complex technical challenges, inventing solutions for more efficient broadband networks and a richer multimedia experience
years ahead of market deployment. InterDigital is a pioneer in the development of enabling technologies in area of M2M and
the IoT some of which we will be showcasing at the Future of Wireless Conference, 2013. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is
listed on NASDAQ and is included in the S&P MidCap 400® index.

iPass

iPass Open Mobile Exchange (OMX) is the world's largest commercial Wi-Fi Roaming and Exchange platform for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). Through a single interface, iPass OMX provides certified WISPr interoperability to over 150 unique Wi-Fi networks; representing over 1.2 million commercial Wi-Fi venues across 123 countries and territories worldwide.
 
iPass is a member of the Wi-Fi Alliance and a board member of the Wireless Broadband Alliance. Additional information about iPass OMX is available at ipass.com.

The Cloud - a BSkyB Company

The Cloud is the UK's biggest public WiFi provider on the high street. The service delivers fast and easy to use broadband to millions of WiFi enabled mobile devices.

The Cloud WiFi also helps businesses acquire, retain and engage with their customers. By gathering data, venues can better understand their customers and place moretargeted messages via the WiFi landing page – hitting the right people, at the right time, with the right offers.

There are now over 8 million registered users connecting for over 200 million minutes a week at over 16,000 live locations such as M&S, PizzaExpress, Caffe Nero plus transport hubs such as Network Rail stations.

Beyond allowing customers to get online, there are opportunities for businesses to use The Cloud to improve the customer experience and ultimately boost loyalty and sales. Fast and reliable WiFi paves the way for new technologies such as mobile payments to cut queue times, or the use of QR codes and augmented reality to encourage customers to log on and discover more about the product range – from reviews to ordering items with a single click.

Comfone

Swiss quality, precision and personalised service are three features on which Comfone has built the foundation for providing a complete portfolio of first class roaming services.
With our Headquarters in Bern, Switzerland and regional offices covering Europe, Latin & North America, Central Asia and Asia Pacific, we are well positioned to serve our global customer base of 360+ customers in 130 countries.
Our service offering, unique to the global roaming market, encompasses Signalling, Data & Financial Clearing, Hubbing, GRX, IPX backbone and Roaming Management services, all of which are accessible through the Key2roam Platform, a true one stop roaming shop.

Purple WiFi

Purple WiFi is a WiFi access system, authenticated through social media channels. This brings all the expected benefits of an enterprise guest WiFi system, with the additional benefit of enhanced social media interaction, content filtering and real-time customer insight and analytics for both our enterprise and "hotspot in a box" solution.
We work with partners to install carrier class WiFi equipment or overlay on existing WiFi infrastructure, all run from our scalable cloud platform.
Key features include enhanced social reach, customer analytics data with access adapted to hierarchy requirements, advertising & vouchers, content filtering, presence analytics & data offload.

WeFi

WeFi is a key innovator and a market leader in mobile broadband Smart Always Best Connected solutions and heterogeneous
network management. WeFi furnishes the service providers and operators with a seamless solution to increase capacity, enable
data offload, handle network congestion and improve coverage by using multichannel heterogeneous network (HetNet)
dynamic priority & handover decision engine based on a unique patented algorithm”

Air Sense Wireless

Our technology is used by the world's largest communications companies to deliver better, more intelligent user experiences.  As the customer demand for wireless data services has increased, so has the complexity of accessing data networks.
The Hypernet results from combining Cellular and Wi-Fi networks with optimised services.  Using today's mobile devices people all over the world are finding it easy to build basic Hypernets.    People are able to combine their cellular allowance with Wi-Fi (public, bundled with home broadband, and carrier provided); but it is far from the effortless experience it could be.
AirSense's technology allows our customers to devise and execute their own Hypernet strategy.

BSG

BSG's eZ-WI® service is the leading provider of carrier grade RADIUS interconnect, Data Clearing and Financial Settlement services. eZ-WI's flexible rules-based platform manages roaming relationships between partners and supports extensive real-time rating and capping features. eZ-WI supports a variety of configuration options which can be implemented on a partner-by-partner basis. eZ-WI also provides a variety of reporting capabilities and management of complex partner/carrier relationships.

Billing Services Group is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, USA. For over 20 years, BSG has been a leading provider of clearing, settlement, payment and financial risk management solutions.

Tallac Networks

Tallac Networks offers — Software Defined MobilityTM — a new approach at enabling Wi-Fi operators to connect mobile users to the network services they demand. Through a set of technologies combining OpenFlow enabled Software Defined Networking (SDN), embedded application containers, and standards based Passpoint, Tallac delivers an SDN-enabled, multi-tenant, service-oriented Wi-Fi network as the next-generation hotspot for any wireless LAN operator.  Working at the access layer and through a dynamic brokerage service, Tallac provides more control, visibility and profit by creating an open mobile network.  Tallac was founded by technologists with core expertise network analytics, network virtualization, identity access, and enterprise WLAN.

RANPLAN Wireless Network Design Ltd.

RANPLAN produces a Wi-Fi network planning and optimisation tool Ranplan-Fi®, a small cell/HetNet deployment tool Ranplan-HetNet®, and an in-building network design tool - iBuildNet®. All RANPALN tools are world leading and have superior 3D building modeling and network performance evaluation capability for stadiums, large buildings and campuses that involve both indoor and outdoor.
Ranplan-Fi® features automatic Wi-Fi AP location, antenna type, transmit power and channel optimisation. It automatically collects data from live Wi-Fi networks and uses them for network optimisation.
Ranplan-HetNet® is the first tool in the world that can be used for joint indoor-outdoor HetNet planning and optimisation.
RANPLAN provides Wi-Fi and in-building network design and optimisation consulting services.

(www.ranplan.co.uk)