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Alcatel-Lucent (5752), AT&T (1866), BellSouth (845), BT (1245), Cablevision (555), Cisco (5136), Comcast (1682), Cox Communications (787), Deutsche Telekom (795), eBay (Skype) (339), Ericsson (1512), France Telecom (939), Google (473), Huawei (953), Intel (1122), Juniper (1971), Microsoft (1083), Motorola (1391), Nokia Siemens Networks (2565), Nortel (3875), NTT (148), Siemens (1355), Sprint (1042), Telefonica (417), Time Warner Cable (882), Verizon (2478), Vodafone (490), Yahoo (338)

Broadband
Access equipment (2070), Access technologies (2301), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (379), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (1027), Cable TV chips (244), DSL (2262), DSL chips (213), DSLAMs (691), Free-space optics (33), FTTx (2760), Gaming consoles (54), Gaming servers (22), Media adapters (21), Municipal networks (104), PON (1206), PON chips (207), Satellite (447), WiMax (850), Wireless LAN (350)

Cable Digital
Cable Modems (574), Cable/MSO equipment (2750), CableLabs (403), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (250), Docsis (891), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (193), Head-ends (206), PacketCable (116), QAM (275)

Chips, Components & Subsystems
ASICs & FPGAs (95), ATCA (456), ATM chips (13), Comm chips (2304), Dispersion compensators (148), Lasers (909), Modulators (158), Mux/demuxes (299), Network processors (912), Optical amplifiers (344), Optical channel monitors (91), Optical components (2780), Speciality fiber (90), Switches & OADMs (395), Transceivers (1222), Transmission fiber (415), Variable optical attenuators (138)

Ethernet
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1437), Access devices (257), ATM switches (332), Circuit emulation (16), Converged access (94), Ethernet chips (560), Ethernet equipment (2026), Ethernet over copper (216), Ethernet PONs (156), Ethernet services (1787), Ethernet technologies (532), Multipoint (124), Multiservice edge equipment (136), Multiservice provisioning platforms (612), Multiservice switches (383), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (244), Point-to-point (132), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (128)

IP & Convergence
B-RASs (224), Cell/WLAN (75), Compression equipment (13), Core routers (1264), DNS (51), Edge routers (1628), ENUM (53), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (478), GMPLS (74), IMS (1048), IMS Control Layer (26), IMS Service Layer (26), IP equipment (1152), IP software (360), IP technologies (1452), IPv6 (90), Layer 3 VPNs (178), MPLS (1737), MPLS (683), Multicast (33), P2P (247), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (128), QOS (346), SIP (381), Traffic managers (793), Wireline/Wireless (56)

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3G Evolution (167), Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (187), Carrier WiFi (213), CDMA (3G) (322), Core Network (159), EV-DO (117), Femtocells (24), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (69), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (54), GSM/EDGE (391), HSDPA/HSUPA (295), IMS Core (43), Long-Term Evolution (LTE) (131), Mobile Advertising (21), Mobile Music (26), Mobile TV (100), Mobile Video (49), Mobile WiMax/WiBro (60), Mobile/Wireless (5460), Packet Core (54), Radio Access Network (219), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (55), Transmission (35), Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB) (8), UMTS(3G) (298), Voice Core (20), WiMax (850), Wireless Backhaul (239), Wireless Chips (182), Wireless LAN (350)

Optical Networking
40-Gbit/s transmission (430), Core optical switches (757), CWDM (289), DWDM (1816), Long-haul WDM equipment (620), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1153), Metro WDM equipment (751), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (369), Optical equipment (2027), Optical switches & crossconnects (395), Optical technologies (401), Sonet/SDH (1018), Sonet/SDH chips (344), Wavelength services (281)

Security
Anti-virus (27), Denial-of-service attacks (40), Encryption (92), Endpoint security (19), Firewalls (60), Intrusion detection & prevention (41), IPSec VPN (800), Security (1796), SSL VPN (861), URL filtering (11), User authentication (19)

Services Software
Activation (409), Billing systems (730), Content/software downloads (219), Customer relationship management (210), Data Integrity (47), Element management systems (36), Fault management (65), Inventory management (147), Mediation systems (202), Messaging (211), Middleware (67), Mobile location (38), OSS (2427), Performance monitoring (314), Policy control (244), Provisioning (535), Revenue assurance & fraud management (326), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (297), Service management (188), Service-oriented architectures (293), Services (2179), Web gateways (51), Web services (108), XML (50)

Test & Measurement
Access equipment Access test & measurement equipment (124), Comm chips Comm chips test & measurement equipment (28), Ethernet equipment Ethernet test & measurement equipment (162), IP equipment IP test & measurement equipment (115), MPLS MPLS test & measurement equipment (13), Optical components Optical components test & measurement equipment (110), Optical equipment Optical test & measurement equipment (876), OSS OSS test & measurement (1055), Sonet/SDH Sonet/SDH test & measurement equipment (1596), Test & measurement (1679), VOIP equipment VOIP test & measurement equipment (143)

Video (Sponsored by Ericsson)
Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (187), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (670), Content delivery network (CDN) (369), Content protection (230), DVRs (565), Internet Video (678), IPTV (3212), Middleware & business support systems (719), Set-top boxes (1477), Stored video servers (355), TV (3206), Video equipment (2366), Video services (3906), Video software (1256), Videophone (182), VOD (2410)

VOIP
Application servers (181), Centrex (195), Conferencing (74), Contact centers (37), Enhanced voice (31), Enterprise (616), Media gateways (351), Messaging (65), Presence management (41), Residential (789), Session border controllers (390), Signaling gateways (102), Softswitches (1080), VOIP chips (161), VOIP equipment (3363), VOIP services (3693), VOIP software (593), VOIP VPNs (26), Wholesale (215)

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