Siemens AG (NYSE: SI; Frankfurt: SIE) -- The free fruit smoothie will get you far. Interesting retro decore, and very bouncy carpet. Comfy chairs and friendly fruit smoothie servers. ***

UTStarcom Inc. (Nasdaq: UTSI) -- Satellite-uplinked Hummer. Huge floor space. Lots of glass and metal. Double-decker meeting rooms. A nice fruit bar. Not too shabby -- but is it worth the cost? ***

Hula Networks -- Beer and the hospitality of the notorious Hula Girls. Always popular. ***

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) -- Strange globey-platform-video-display thingy was weird but alluring and a bit creepy at the same time. We found ourselves walking through it just for the heck of it. ** 1/2

Fujitsu Network Communications Inc. -- Comfortable meeting room with flat screen display. Somewhat labyrithian design made us nervous -- like we might stumble across the body of a tradeshow journalist from years past ** 1/2

Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) -- Is John Chambers cutting back on the tradeshow budget? This booth was woefully undersized. Average population density appeared to be about 5 people per square foot. Hard to move around, let alone browse. **