Redbaron - Tech, Software
Thursday, November 04, 2004
[3] Telecom, Wireless, Enterprise and Broadband Networks Industry
1. Telecom - Carrier-level, Voice Communication Services
(i) Industry News, Websites, Magazines
- List of Communication Services companies - from Yahoo.com
- List of Communication Eqpmt companies - from Yahoo.com
- Dell’Oro Group in Redwood City, CA produces detailed, quantitative research on manufacturers' revenue, ports/unit shipments and average selling prices for networking and telecommunications equipment worldwide. Our Quarterly Reports contain market level and detailed vendor market share information. Our 5-Year Forecast Reports contain assumptions, predictions, and projections for each technology market
- Pulver.com - VON and VoIP marketplace
- Business
- Telecom Magazine
- Light Reading - The Global Site for Optical Networking
Other Light Reading Publications - Unstrung.com - the world wide source for the analysis of the wireless industry
- BoardWatch.com - Analysis of Telecom Software, Services and Strategy
- Total Telecom - daily news for global communications
- CommWeb from CMP publications - where telecom, datacom and the Internet converge
- Converge Digest - News and Resources on the convergence of Broadband Networking technologies
- Telephony Online
- Engineering
- Communications Engineering & Design - the premier engineering magazine for the broadband industry
- VoIP
- IP Telephony - IP xStream, news and market research for the VoIP marketplace
- Telephony Online - a Primedia publication
- Voice & Data - gateway to Indian communications network. CIOL Network
(ii) Telecom Regulatory Organizations, Standard Committees, Forums
- Regulatory Orgs
- Federal Communications Commission, FCC
- International Telecommunication Union, ITU
- ITU Events - Meetings and Conferences
- ITU Office of the Secretary-General · ITU Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU)
- Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Home Page - ITU's Telecommunication Indicator Reports
- 3 broad ITU sectors - Telecom Development Sector · Radiocommunication Sector · Telecom Standardization Sector
- European Competitive Telecommunications Association - ECTA facilitates business development opportunities and a pro-competitive market.
Events - Industry Orgs
- USTA or United States Telecom Association
- TIA or Telecommunications Industry Association
- TIA produces the monthly online newsletter PulseOnline, the weekly Industry Beat email bulletin, an annual report, a Standards and Technology Annual Report (STAR), a Public Policy Report and Agenda, a membership directory, the Channel Intelligence Report, the International Informer Newsletter, the Channel Benchmarking Report, and the Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast
- Verizon
- SBC Communications
- AT &T
- Sprint
- Sprint PCS - Tower Maps, (wireless facilities map)
- Qwest
- Companies - chipsets, boards, boxes, software, services
- Applied Micro Circuits (San Diego),
- Alcatel Optronics (Paris, France)
- Agere Systems (Allentown, PA)
- Cisco
- Cypress Semiconductor (San Jose), Gemplus International (Luxembourg), GlobespanVirata (Redbank, NJ)
- Lucent technologies
- Marvell Technology (Hamilton, Bermuda)
- Nortel communications
- PMC-Sierra (Santa Clara), Vitesse (Camarillo, CA)
- UTStarcom designs, manufactures, and markets an integrated suite of future-ready access network and next-generation switching solutions. The Company enables wireless and wireline operators in fast-growth markets worldwide to offer voice, data, and Internet access services rapidly and cost-effectively. Finished 2002 with total year revenues of nearly $1 billion.
- CommsDesign.com, an EE Times community, is the online technical resource center for communication design engineers. For 2.5/3G Wirless, Broadband Design, Home Networking, Network Processing, Optical Networking and Wireless LANs/PANs
- The IEC Web ProForum tutorials feature the latest technical and business issues of vital concern to engineers, salespersons, managers, and executives.
- Voice over IP - How Stuff Works - Part III - from Hughes Software, Learning Center.
- Voice over Packet - tutorial on Wave Report
2. Wireless Industry - Cellular, Wi-Fi, Mobility
(i) Industry Info - Companies
- Wireless and Mobile Industry Links
- Equipment Companies - network systems and handsets
- Nokia
- Ericsson
- Texas Instruments
- TI Broadband focus newsletter. TI's 'Broadband Focus' is our free, by-subscription e-newsletter, devoted to broadband trends, innovations and the full range of TI's broadband technologies (802.11, WLAN, Cable, DSL and Voice over IP [VoIP]).
- Motorola
- The iDEN system is a TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) technology that combines high efficiency modulation techniques and offers the capabilities of four distinct communication services into one handset, using a single network. This system enables digital telephone, two-way radio, short message service, wireless packet data service and wireless Internet for flexible and efficient business communications.
- Qualcomm
- QUALCOMM's BREW solution is a complete, open product and business system for the development and over-the-air deployment of data services on wireless devices
- ArrayComm - personal broadband. Co-founded by Martin Cooper - a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, Martin conceived the first portable cellular phone in 1973 and led the 10-year process of bringing it to market.
- IP Wireless - mobile broadband
- Flarion - it's flash-OFDM? system enables a mobile operator to deploy a nationwide, all-IP, packet-switched mobile broadband network and mobilizes the personal computing experience for data and voice, with carrier-class reliability and cellular coverage, and support for enterprise-class security.
- Rajiv Laroia is the founder of Flarion, and the Company's CTO. Prior to launching Flarion, Dr. Laroia was with Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories since 1992. He received his Ph.D. and Master's degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1992 and 1989 and a bachelor's degree in 1985 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi-all in electrical engineering.
- Equipment Companies - Components
- RF Micro Devices - Greensboro, NC - premier manufacturer of radio frequency integrated circuits for wireless communications
- Skyworks Solutions, Woburn MA, is the industry's leading wireless semiconductor company focused on radio frequency (RF) and complete semiconductor system solutions for mobile communications applications. Skyworks provides the building blocks of wireless to handset, WLAN and infrastructure manufacturers worldwide.
- Silicon Laboratories (Austin, TX) - High Performance Mixed-Signal ICs
- Triquint Semiconductor - providing high-performance modules and components to leading communication companies. We connect the digital world to the global network through RF and optical interfaces.
- Solution Companies - software, applications, services
- Good Technology is the industry standards-based leader in enterprise systems for wireless corporate messaging and information access. Good Technology is located in Sunnyvale, Calif. and was founded in March 2000. Lead investors include John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Bruce Dunlevie of Benchmark Capital who also serve on the company's Board of Directors.
- Danger hiptop? Wireless solution was designed to address the needs of wireless operators to take advantage of next generation data networks. Danger's end-to-end solution consists of the following three key components: hiptop? Service Delivery Engine, hiptop? Development Platform, hiptop? Device Designs
- Palm - News, Community, Forums
- PalmSource - The maker of Palm OS ·
- PDA Street - The PDA Network for Handheld Computers, PDA Software, Windows CE, Pocket PC, Palm Pilot, Psion, iPaq, Pocket PC 2002, Sony Clie, Pocketpc, Handspring Visor, REX, Zaurus, Helio, Royal daVinci, PocketMail, PDA Software, Reviews, Gadgets, Gizmos, Handhelds, and more!
- Research In Motion (RIM) - portfolio includes the BlackBerry? wireless platform, the wireless handheld? product line, software development tools, radio-modems and software/hardware licensing agreements
- Symbol Technologies, Inc., founded in 1975, is a global leader in secure mobile information systems that integrate application-specific handheld computers with wireless networks for data, voice and bar code data capture.
- Dr. Jerome Swartz is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Symbol Technologies, Inc. Swartz co-founded the Holtsville, N.Y.-based company in 1975 and still serves as its Chief Scientist. Symbol, under Swartz's leadership, was the winner of the National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor for technology innovation.
- WTEC Panel Report on Wireless Technologies and Information Networks - World Technology Evaluation Center (WTEC), July 2000
- WTEC Exec Summary - current state and trends in wireless communications - World Technology Evaluation Center (WTEC), July 2000
- PrivateLine.com
- Wired Telecom Pages
- Cellular Phone Basics - AMPS and beyond
- Links page - Telecom, Wireless, Information Services
- A Short Tutorial on Wireless LANs and IEEE 802.11 - Daniel L. Lough, T. Keith Blankenship, Kevin J. Krizman, The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Forum Nokia Main Page
- World of Wireless Communications - CTIA, WOW-COM Wireless week ·
- CDMA Development Group - Costa Mesa, CA
- MobilePlanet - The Mobile Computing Experts - the online catalog
- Wireless NewsFactor
- Wireless Communications Association International (WCA). Founded in 1988, the Wireless Communications Association International (WCA) is the non-profit trade and professional association for the Wireless Broadband industry with member companies on six continents representing the bulk of the sector's leading carriers, vendors and consultants.
- Wireless Village, the initiative sponsored by Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and over 100 other Supporters, has announced the release of the Wireless Village version 1.0 specifications, which will enable interoperability of mobile instant messaging and presence services (IMPS).
- Wi-Fi Resources
- Wi-Fi Alliance - Products, Events
- 802.11 Planet - from Jupiter Media
3. Networking Industry - Corporate LANs, WANs, Storage, Datacom
(i) Networking and Storage magazines
- NetworkWorld
- Storage review - website reviewing hard disk and storage-related performance. Internet's leading independent storage authority.
- Storage Networking Industry Association, SNIA
- ByteAndSwitch.com - the Storage Networking site
- Sys-con Media's Information Storage + Security Journal
- SourceForge.net Storage Foundry
- ADC is The Broadband Company. ADC's network equipment, software, and systems integration services make broadband communications a reality worldwide by enabling communications service providers to deliver high-speed Internet, data, video, and voice services to consumers and businesses. Yahoo finance - ADCT
- Broadcom - Irvine, CA is a leading provider of IC solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of voice, video and data services. We design, develop and supply complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions incorporating digital, analog and radio frequency (RF) technologies, as well as related hardware and software system-level applications. Yahoo finance - BRCM
- Conexant - Red Bank, NJ is a worldwide leader in semiconductor solutions for broadband communications, enterprise networks and the digital home - such as digital subscriber line (DSL) and cable modem solutions, home network processors, broadcast video encoders and decoders, digital set-top box components and systems solutions, and the company's foundation dial-up modem business. Yahoo finance - CNXT
- Intersil (Milpitas, CA) - High Performance Analog Solutions. Yahoo finance - ISIL
- Proxim Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA is a global leader in wireless networking equipment for Wi-Fi and broadband wireless networks. The company is providing its enterprise and service provider customers with wireless solutions for the mobile enterprise, security and surveillance, last mile access, voice and data backhaul, public hot spots, and metropolitan area networks.Yahoo finance - PROX
- Intel Networking and Communication - Design Components
- 3Com
- Avici Systems
- Ciena corp
- Cisco
- Corvis
- Enterasys Networks
- Extreme Networks
- Juniper Networks
- Redback Networks
- Sycamore Networks
- Servers
- EMC Corp
- IBM Corp - storage
- HP - storage
- Sun - storage
- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
- Network Applicance
- Storage Software
- Quantum Corp
- Gadzoox Networks
- Storage Technology
- Components
- Adaptec (Milipitas)
- Brocade
- Cisco
- Emulex
- QLogic (Aliso Viejo, CA). QLogic Corporation designs and develops storage networking infrastructure components sold to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), resellers and system integrators. The Company's products include the SANblade host bus adapters (HBAs), SANbox Fibre Channel Switches and SANsurfer Management Suite HBA and Switch management software. QLogic's Fibre Channel HBAs support small computer systems interface (SCSI) protocol, Internet protocol (IP), virtual interface (VI) and fiber connection (FICON) protocol.
- McData Corp
- Solution Providers
- Dot Hill systems
- MTI Technology Corp
(v) Networking and Network Security Software
- Kerberos FAQ - Kerberos, a network authentication protocol
- Symantec Corp provides content and network security software and appliance solutions to enterprises, individuals and service providers. The Company provides client, gateway and server security solutions for virus protection, firewall and virtual private network (VPN), security management, intrusion detection, Internet content and e-mail filtering, remote management technologies and security services to enterprises and service providers worldwide.
- Network Associates Inc is a supplier of computer security solutions designed to prevent intrusions on networks and protect computer systems from the next generation of blended attacks and threats. The Company offers two principal families of products: McAfee System Protection Solutions, which delivers anti-virus and security products and services, designed to protect systems such as desktops and servers; and McAfee Network Protection Solutions, which offers products designed to maximize the performance and security of networks.
- Check Point Software develops, markets and supports Internet security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions for enterprise and high-end networks, small and medium-sized businesses, and service providers. Check Point product offerings also include Quality of Service (QoS) and Security Management solutions.
- Cyberguard (NasdaqNM:CGFW), No. 4 in Web network security, is gaining fast on bigger rivals Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, and Check Point Software Technologies. Since Juniper acquired NetScreen Technologies in February, the buzz has been that CyberGuard, best known for firewalls, will be the next target, says Brian Harvey of Kingfisher Capital Management, which owns shares.
- Short History of the Internet by Bruce Sterling. Literary Freeware -- Not for Commercial Use. From THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, February 1993.
- Network Applications Consortium - NAC is a consortium of IT end-user organizations representing combined revenues of over $750 billion, more than 50,000 network servers, and more than 1 million workstations. Since its founding in 1990, NAC has emerged as the premier end-user group dedicated to promoting integration, interoperability, and vendor collaboration.
4. Broadband & Cable Industry - Entertainment, Media, Voice and Datacom
(i) Major Broadband Service Providers
- Cablevision
- Comcast
- Time Warner
- DirecTV
- Verizon Communications
- SBC Communications
- Echostar communications
- Cox communications
- iBlast - sending digital content thru broadcast network. iBlast's founding partners include Tribune Broadcasting, Gannett Company Inc., Cox Broadcasting, The Washington Post Company, The E. W. Scripps Company, Meredith Corporation, Media General Inc., The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., Lee Enterprises, The New York Times, Raycom Media, Inc., Smith Broadcasting Group Inc., Liberty Corporation, Northwest Broadcasting, Emmis Communications, Bahakel Communications, Ltd., Gray Communications Systems, Inc., Evening Post Publishing Company, Bonneville International Corporation, Journal Broadcast Group, Inc., Cocola Broadcasting Companies, Straightline Communications, JME Media and Ackerley Media.
- CSG Systems - address the customer care and billing needs of virtually every segment of the communications industry-including more than 20 of the world's Tier 1 service providers. Now, CSG own Kena-Arbor telecom billing and BSS systems, as well.
OSS/BSS systems for for the worldwide communications market, including:
Cable television
Direct broadcast satellite
Next generation mobile telephony
IP services
Wireline
- MultiChannel.com - The cable industry's book of records, from Reed Business Information
- broadbandreports.com - the place for BROADBAND
- Scot's Newsletter covers Windows, broadband, do-it-yourself networking, Microsoft, and the Internet. You'll get insights, analysis, hardware and software reviews, explanations, tips, and straight-shooting advice about desktop computing issues today, and tomorrow. It's information about Windows and broadband you can really use.
- Bandwidth Place, Speed Test FAQ · SpeedGuide.net - networking system performance ·
- MSN.com speed test
[4] Semiconductors and Materials
1. Semiconductor Industry - Magazine, Publications, Forums
(i) Industry websites
- Research and Reports
- List of Semiconductor companies - from Yahoo.com
- VLSI Research - where the semiconductor industry clicks to find the weather
- Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present (V 13.4.0). This list is not intended to be an exhaustive compilation of microprocessors, but rather a description of designs that are either unique (such as the RCA 1802, Acorn ARM, or INMOS Transputer), or representative designs typical of the period (such as the 6502 or 8080, 68000, and R2000).
- Small Times - big news in small tech
- CMP Publications
- EE Times : Advanced Technology - News about the technology driving the electronics industry
- EE Times: Semiconductors
- EE Times: Systems and Software
- EE Times: Planet Analog
- EE Times: Embedded Systems
- Solid State Technology magazine (Penn Well Corporation) is the longest-running and most complete source of information for engineers, operators, managers, tool and materials suppliers and semiconductor researchers.
- Semi.org - Semiconductor Manufacturing magazine
- Semiconductor International magazine, from Reed Publications, Electronics Group
(v) General links
- Links to Semiconductors, Dielectrics, Materials Science & Engg, Radiography & Digital Imaging, Optoelectronics - Prof. Safa Kasap, Univ of Saskatchewan, Canada, Electronic Materials and Devices
2. Microelectronics, VLSI, Memory Devices, ASICs, FPGAs, PLDs
(i) Diversified Companies
- Fujitsu Microelectronics - Wafer Foundry services, Packages, ASICs, MPU/MCU, Memory, ASSPs, Compound Semiconductors, Media Devices, Flat Panel Displays
- Panasonic Semiconductor Development Center
- Philips Semiconductors
- Memory Storage
- Atmel (San Jose), Macronix International (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
- Infineon, Munich, Germany
- Micron, Boise, ID
- Rambus, Los Altos, CA
- PLDs, ASICs
- LSI Logic, Milpitas, CA
- Xilinx, San Jose, CA
- About Programmable Logic Devices - PLDs and FPGAs from Xilinx.
- Altera, San Jose, CA
- Actel, Sunnyvale, CA, Lattice Semiconductor, Hillsboro, OR
- Motorola SPS (Semiconductor Products and Solutions)
- National Semi, Santa Clara, CA
3. Microprocessors - related to computers and server chips
(i) Companies involved in Microprocessors
- ARM Holdings, Cambridge, UK
- AMD, Sunnyvale, CA
- IBM Power Architecture
- Power.org represents a worldwide community of developers, tool providers, manufacturers, and leading brands united to work on Power Architecture™ technology
The companies behind Power.org include: AMCC, Bull, Cadence Design Systems, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Culturecom, IBM, Jabil Circuit, Novell, Red Hat, Sony Corporation, Shanghai Belling, Synopsys, Thales, Tundra Semiconductor and Wistron. - Intel, Santa Clara, CA
- E-business at Intel - E-business case-studies
- Technology trends
- Solution Providers offer ready-made blueprints - based on Intel platform. Industries covered are - Digital Media, Financial Services, Government, Health-care, Manufacturing, Retail, Telecom, Cross-industry.
- NVidia, Santa Clara, CA
4. DSPs, Mixed-signal and analog ICs - related to radio, RF, wireless/WLAN/Wi-Fi , Mobile Phone chips
(i) Companies in DSPs
- Texas Instruments
- What is DSP?
- Digital Logic Products
- Analog and Mixed-Signal Devices
- TI - Semiconductor Technical Support KnowledgeBase . For (a) DSPs , (b) Analog and mixed-signal , (c) Digital Logic devices.
- TI Sensors and Controls
- STMicroelectronics (Geneva)
- Analog Devices, Norwood, MA
- Linear Technology, Milipitas, CA
- Maxim Integrated, Sunnyvale, CA
- Microchip Technology, Chandler, Az
5. Semiconductor Manufacturing, Materials, Process Equipment & Testing
(i) Semiconducting Manufacturing
- COMPANIES
- ATMI Inc (Danbury, CT), Cree Inc (Durham, NC), Kyocera (Kyoto, Japan), MEMC Electronic Materials (St.Peters, MO)
- Entegris - Chaska, MN
- TSMC (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan)
- United Microelectronics (Sunnyvale, Taiwan, Singapore)
- Honeywell - Electronic Materials
- Rohm & Hass - Electronic Materials
- DuPont - microcircuit materials
- 3M Electronic Materials - 3M offers a wealth of advanced technologies designed to help electronics manufacturers improve quality and reduce costs through the development of specialized products that clean...polish... adhere...protect...reduce emissions...and more.
(ii) Semiconductor Process and Testing Equipment -
- COMPANIES - Process Equipment
- Applied Materials (Santa Clara)
- Lam Research (Fremont), Varian Semiconductor (Gloucester, MA), Veeco Instruments (Woodbury, NY),
- Novellus is a supplier of manufacturing systems used to create integrated circuits
- Teradyne is the largest supplier of automatic test equipment for the electronics & telecommunications industries and a supplier of high-performance backplane assemblies and connectors.
- COMPANIES - Process Control
- KLA Tencor, San Jose, CA
- COMPANIES - Lithographic Tools
- ASML (Nederlands)
- Canon - Semiconductor Equipment Division, San Jose, CA
- Nikon Precision Inc.
- Ultratech's Lithography Stepper
- COMPANIES - Flat Panel Display/FPD Equipment
- Semiconductor Test Equipment
- Advantest Tokyo
(iii) Semiconductor software - design and testing -
- Electronic Design Automation or EDA
- Cadence Design
- Mentor Graphics
- Synopsys Inc
- Magma Design Automation provides electronic design automation(EDA) software that enables chip designers to meet critical time- to-market objectives, improve chip performance and handle designs.
- Semiconductor Testing
[5] Computer Peripherals and Electronics Industry
1. Computer Storage Industry
(i) Diversified Storage Companies
- Seagate
- Maxtor
- Western Digital
- Hitachi
- Toshiba - Storage device division , Home Entertainment & Consumer Electronics
- Matsushita
(iii) Optical Storage - CD/DVD Drives, Media, Authoring Software
(iv) Document Management Software
2. Printer/Copier Industry
(i) Diversified Companies
- Xerox Corp
- IBM Corp
- Hewlett Packard
- Creo Inc (CreoSciTex)
Creo is world's largest supplier of prepress equipment, for the graphic arts industry. We are also active in the creative desktop market. - T/R Systems
Overview
T/R Systems designs, develops and markets innovative digital document software and hardware applications. We offer two main applications: the MicroPress, our digital document production output management system; and
Digital StoreFront, our web-based print job submission, management and control application.
- Electronics for Imaging
- PrintMe extends the value of such widespread information access by providing a mobile and Internet printing solution that enables printing from a desktop, PDA, laptop, or cell phone.
- Facsimile Communication over IP Networks -B.V.S. Girish, M.Tech IIT-K project, 1997
- Page description language or PDL - from Wikipedia
- Portable Document Format or PDF - from Wikipedia
- Scalable Vector Graphics or SVG
- Pixel Translations
- Pixel Translations - Product Overview
- ISIS ? Image and Scanner Interface Specification. The industry standard, enterprise-level interface that unites a universe of scanners and applications, supporting EVERY feature of leading document scanners.
- Introduction to Raster Image Processing. Find out how RIPs operate and what benefits they offer. - By Mark Coudray , ScreenWeb.com
3. Digital Electronics, Imaging, Optics
(i) Display Technologies - Companies, Websites, Links
- Display Panel Companies
- Planar Systems
- Universal Display Corp
- Chips and Components
- ATI Technologies
- nVidia Corp
- Consumer Electronics Association or CEA
- The Society for Information Display - When you join the Society for Information Display, you are joining the international display community ? and a local one. From Osaka to Eindhoven, you will find 6000 colleagues passionately involved in display and display-system design, integration, marketing, display standards, manufacturing, human factors, applications, and R&D.
- TiVo and DVR, PVR services
- TRON (The Real Time Operating System Nucleus) - an Operating System (OS) specification that will be coupled to a global man-machine interface that can work with other, different computer operating systems, such as those of IBM, SUN, APPLE, and DEC.
- Links relative to Smart Cards and Electronic Payment Systems. - UCL Microelectronics Lab, Crypto Group @ Universit? catholique de Louvain , Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium
- Card Technology - the magazine for smart cards, networks and ID solutions
- Articles in SmartCardAlliance
- White paper on how public transit smart cards may be a catalyst for convergence with retail payment.
- White paper on smart cards in healthcare, and role they play in securing privacy and access to information under the new HIPAA regulations.
- Secure physical access white paper
- Contactless payment white paper
- Privacy white paper
- Smart Cards and Retail Payments Resources
- Contactless Technology whitepaper
4. Sensor Networks, Embedded Devices, Handhelds (i) Embedded Devices, Handhelds
(ii) Sensor Networks, Sensors
- Crossbow , San Jose, CA
Crossbow sensors integrate silicon micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) with digital signal processing and communications technology. We are the industry leaders in using low power radio technology to create low-cost wireless sensor networks with global connectivity. Our integrated, intelligent sensing solutions are based on industry standards and require no external components or signal conditioning.
Crossbow develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of inertial sensors including gyros, accelerometers, tilt, and magnetic sensors. We offer sensor-based analog and digital subsystems. - Ember - At Ember, we are experts in embedded wireless networking. We offer our customers a family of low-cost, low-power, and high performance radio chips enhanced with EmberNet™ embedded networking software. Optimized for sensing and control applications, this self-organizing, self-healing, wireless mesh technology is uncompromisingly robust, secure and easy to use.
5. Channel Sales, Dealers, Distributors, VARs, System Integrators to Computer and Electronics Industries
(i) Dealers and Distributors - Companies, Websites, Links
- Arrow Electronics is one of the world’s largest distributors of electronic components and computer products and a leading provider of solutions and services to the technology sector, with 2003 sales of $8.67 billion.
Headquartered in Melville, New York, Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for more than 600 suppliers and over 150,000 original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and commercial customers through more than 200 sales facilities and 18 distribution centers in 41 countries.
Arrow North American Computer Products - Avnet, Inc, Phoenix-based, is an authorized B2B distributor for the products of more than 250 of the world's leading technology manufacturers. Its two operating groups, Avnet Electronics Marketing & Avnet Technology Solutions, market, inventory, distribute and add value to electronic components, embedded systems and enterprise computing products for customers in 68 countries. Sales for FY 2003 were US $9.05 billion.
- Ingram Micro Inc is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. Since its beginnings in 1979, Ingram Micro has connected technology solution providers with vendors worldwide, identifying markets and technologies that shape the IT industry. The company offers a broad array of solutions and services to nearly 165,000 resellers by distributing and marketing hundreds of thousands of IT products worldwide from nearly 1,400 suppliers.
Sales (net) for fiscal year 2003 was More than $22 billion. Ingram Micro is a member of the Global Technology Distribution Council. For more information about the GTDC, visit www.gtdc.org. - Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ/NMS: TECD), founded in 1974, is a leading global provider of IT products, logistics management and other value-added services. Ranked 111th on the FORTUNE 500, the company and its subsidiaries serve more than 90,000 technology resellers in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. Tech Data’s extensive service offering includes pre- and post-sale training and technical support, financing options and configuration services as well as a full range of electronic commerce solutions. The company generated sales of $17.4 billion for its most recent fiscal year, which ended January 31, 2004.
[6] Internet and Digital Media - Music, Movies, Art, Content
1. Digital Media's Software and Tools Industry
(i) Video and Movies software
- Software Companies
- Real Networks
Helix Community - RealNetworks Audio Video authoring
- Industry Consortia, Committees
- Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) - a working group of ISO/IEC
- JPEG.org is used for document distribution and discussion by the international JPEG and JBIG groups, who represent a wide variety of companies and academic institutions worldwide.
- MPEG-4 Industry Forum - will now be able to provide a platform for those who want to address the adoption of MPEG-7 and MPEG-21. MPEG-4 will remain the focus of a large part of the Forum's membership, and the Forum will keep using the m4if.org website and MP4 logo for its MPEG-4 activities. These activities include the adoption of the new Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard.
- Academic Research
- Berkeley MPEG Tools from Berkeley Multimedia Research Center
(iii) Photo and Picture software
- Picture sharing and upload sites
- H-P's Snapfish
- Kodak's Ofoto
- Shutterfly
- Apple's iPhoto
- Yahoo's Flickr
- Google's Picasa
- Sony's Imagestation
- Photoworks.com
