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With Millions
raised since 1997, we would like to thank the
1000's of QuickPlan® Customers who have made
QuickPlan® work for them.
Includes Indexed Hard Copy, CD-ROM Unlimited Tech Support and Immediate E Mail Download.
|
With Millions
raised since 1997, we would like to thank the
1000's of QuickPlan® Customers who have made
QuickPlan® work for them.
Includes Indexed Hard Copy, CD-ROM Unlimited Tech Support and Immediate E Mail Download.
|
With Millions
raised since 1997, we would like to thank the
1000's of QuickPlan® Customers who have made
QuickPlan® work for them.
Includes Indexed Hard Copy, CD-ROM Unlimited Tech Support and Immediate E Mail Download.
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ASP/ISP Equipment and Service Providers
- AboveNet - Provides Internet connectivity and co-location solutions for high bandwidth and business-critical applications.
- AduroNet - AduroNet fills a gap between the transport and content layer with an intelligent computing network to enable secure and high performance connectivity with dynamic content delivery.
- ASP-Ready
- C.E. Unterberg Towbin
- CFI - Computerized Facility Integration L.L.C. - Provides consulting and systems integration services focusing on facilities, document management and information technology solutions.
- Compaq - Enterprise applications.
- Concentric Network Corporation - Provides complete, easy-to-use Internet networking solutions for small to medium sized businesses, including high-speed dedicated and DSL access, Web hosting and e-commerce services.
- Digital Island
- EMC – Builds secure information storage infrastructures.
- Global Crossing
- Graybar - Wholesale distributor of comm/data products.
- GTE Data Services - Internet billing solutions.
- Hewlett-Packard
- IBM
- Inktomi
- KMC Telecom - Offers local and long distance service, data services, equipment leasing, and a complete maintenance and service package.
- Level 3 - Colocation and other network services.
- Logical Design Systems - Internet professional services firm providing e-business solutions to market leaders in the communications industry.
- Lucent Technologies
- Norstan - Norstan is a single-source provider for leading-edge technology solutions, world-class technology services and competitive financial offerings.
- Novell - The world's leading provider of directory-enabled networking software.
- PeopleSoft - Enterprise application software.
- Qwest
- SGI - High-performance computing technology.
- Siebel - Provides eBusiness application software.
- Sun Microsystems
- Systemsfusion - Systemsfusion provides the Hosted Application Distribution Channel that taps into the opportunities of the Application Service Provider (ASP) market.
- Telares - Telares is a revenue sharing marketing program helping you sell new and exciting services to your established customer base.
- Telcordia
- USinternetworking
- Vovida - Vovida's Softswitch software product enables advanced telephony features, applications and services on converged datacom-telecom networks in carrier and service provider environments.
- Winstar - Winstar provides its customers with a comprehensive set of high-quality, digital-age broadband services, including high-speed Internet access and data transport, Web-based information, applications services, Web hosting and local and long distance services..
Competitive Local Exchange Carriers
- @link Networks - Based in Waukesha, Wis. The carrier plans to offer DSL services in major markets.
- 21st Century Telecom Group Inc. - Facilities-based provider of voice, video, and data services in the Chicago area.
- 2nd Century Communications - Plans on an ATM based local-services system to serve Florida markets.
- Actel Integrated Communications, Inc.
- Adelphia Business Solutions - Serves 46 eastern cities through fiber-optic networks.
- Advanced Communications Group - Mid-America regional carrier with integrated portfolio.
- Advanced Radio Telecom - With its national 38 GHz spectrum footprint, delivers to San Jose, Seattle, Phoenix and Portland.
- Advanced TelCom Group Inc. - ICP that focuses on the under-served, middle-size markets.
- Allegiance Telecom, Inc. - Facilities-based carrier operates in 15 locales, plans to operate in 24 markets.
- American MetroComm - Offers services in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
- AT&T Canada - Canada's largest facilities-based competitive voice, data and Internet provider.
- AT&T Local Services (TCG) - TCG is now the local services of AT&T.
- BayRing Communications - BayRing offers local services using its own Class 5 switch.
- Birch Telecom Inc. - Operates services in several Missouri, Kansas and Texas markets.
- Bloomingdale Telephone Company, Inc. - Based in southwest Michigan.
- BlueStar Communications - Provider of Internet access and DSL services for Tennessee and Kentucky.
- Broadwing - Provider in Cincinnati area, also parts of Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio.
- BTI Telecom Corp. - Has Lucent 5ESS switches in Greensboro, Charlotte and Raleigh, with plans for Orlando and Atlanta.
- Buckeye TeleSystem - Over 250 miles of fiber optics in Toledo, OH area.
- C3 Communications - Offers high capacity city-to-city and intra-city fiber services to telecommunication carriers in Texas and Louisiana.
- Cablevision Lightpath Inc. - Serves more than 3.4 million customers in New York, Boston and Cleveland markets.
- CapRock Communications - Services in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona.
- Cavalier Telephone, LLC - Investing $50 million throughout central and eastern Virginia to build a network.
- Choice One Communications - Has switches in Albany, Buffalo, Syracuse and Pittsburgh.
- Climax Telephone Co.
- Community NetWorks - ICP serving small and medium-sized businesses and residential customers in New York.
- Computer Business Solutions - Rolling out its IG2 services in 32 of the most populous cities in the U.S.
- Conectiv Communications, Inc. - Operates a 600-mile, fiber-optic network in the Mid-Atlantic.
- Convergent Communications Services, Inc.
- Covad Communications - Data CLEC based in Santa Clara, Calif., offering DSL services in the San Francisco area.
- Cox Fibernet - Offers local services in Hampton Roads, Va., Oklahoma, City, Okla., and New Orleans.
- Crystal Communications Inc. - Subsidiary of Hickory Tech in Mankato, Minn., serving Minnesota and Iowa.
- CTC Communications - Offers a portfolio of Local Voice, Data, Internet and Long Distance products in the Northeast.
- Dakota Telecommunications Group - Offers services for South Dakota and throughout the upper Midwest.
- Dunkirk & Fredonia Telephone Company - Providing telephone service to Fredonia, NY.
- E.Spire Communications, Inc.
- Electric Lightwave, Inc. - Provides integrated communcations, enhanced data, switched voice, frame relay, ATM and Internet services.
- Entergy Hyperion Telecommunications - Makes software and development tools that allow access and process of large amounts of data for strategic planning.
- Fiber Net Telecom Group - Designs and constructs FiberNet In-building Networks and metropolitan area fiber optic loops.
- First Regional Telecom - Provides communications services to Washington, D.C. metro area.
- FirstWorld Communications - Internet solutions and telecommunications provider.
- Florida Digital Network - Provides communications services in the Sunshine State.
- Focal Communications Corp. - Targets metropolitan areas with data and voice services.
- Frontier Corp. - Rochester, NY -based company hot into long distance market.
- Genesis Communications - California-based full service telecommunication company providing value-added local and long distance services.
- Global NAPs - Provides voice and data services nationally.
- GST Telecommunications Inc. - A facilities-based carrier providing a broad range of services in the western states.
- HarvardNet - An ISP targeting business customers.
- ICG Communications - Provides a broad range of services both regionally and nationally.
- INdigital telecom - Focused on the Indiana market.
- InfoTel Communications - Providing services in Greater Minnesota.
- Integra Telecom - Provides a full range of services in Oregon.
- InterAccess - An ISP for Chicagoland.
- ITC-DeltaCom - A Southeastern full service provider.
- JATO Communications Corp. - A Denver-based DSL provider.
- Kasson & Mantorville Telephone Company - Kasson, Minn.-based provider.
- KMC Telecom Holdings, Inc. - Runs fiber-optic networks in 23 markets throughout the South and Midwest.
- Level 3 Communications, Inc. - Building a global fiber-optic network based on IP telephony.
- Log On America - An IISP targeting the Northeast.
- Logix Communications - Regionally-based full service ICP.
- McLeodUSA, Inc. - A provider of integrated services to business and residential customers in the Great Plains region.
- MediaOne - Currently provides basic cable to about 5 million subscribers.
- MegsINet - CLEC Inc. - Chicago-based ISP planning to rollout local and long-distance services nationwide.
- MGC Communications - Local and long-distance voice and data services in Las Vegas and suburban Los Angeles and Atlanta.
- National Tel - Offers facilities-based local services in Orlando and Tampa.
- Net2000 Communications - A facilities-based CLEC in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
- Network Access Solutions - Offers DSL services along the East Coast.
- Network Plus Inc. - Bundles local phone service, Internet and data transfer, and other services with its international and long-distance offerings.
- NewSouth Communications Corp. - Southeast full-service provider.
- NEXTLINK - Provides next-generation services in 41 markets.
- North American Telecommunications Corp. Facilities-based services in New York.
- NorthPoint Communications - SanFrancisco-based data CLEC intending to roll out DSL services in major markets.
- OmniCall Inc. - Provides bundled services in the Southeast.
- Ovation Communications Inc. - Offers local and long distance service in the Midwest.
- Pac-West Telecomm, Inc. - Full-service provider for ISPs and smaller businesses in California.
- PaeTec Communications Inc. - Planning to roll out local services in 35 nationwide markets.
- penntele.com - Provides telecom products and service to the Western Pennsylvania.
- Pointe Communications Corp. - Provides satellite communications to Latin America.
- Pontio Communications Company Inc. - Facilities-based wholesale provider of DSL and broadband services.
- RCN Corp. - Provides CATV and CLEC services.
- Supra Telecom - Serves both business and residential customers in Florida.
- TDS METROCOM - Serves over 3 million customers in Wisconsin.
- TelePacific Communications - Offers services to small and medium sized businesses in California and Nevada.
- Teligent - Former AT&T president Alex Mandl leads this company that targets businesses in major and midsized metropolitan areas.
- Time Warner Telecom - This competitive CLEC is building out fiber optic networks in nearly 20 metro areas.
- TriVergent Communications - Using an ATM-based, data network that will cover 26 southeastern metro markets.
- US LEC Corp. - A switch-based CLEC providing local and long distance services to businesses in the southeast.
- USLink - Full-service provider of local, long distance and Internet services to businesses and residential customers.
- US Unwired - Lake Charles, La.,-based CLEC firm LEC Unwired uses US Unwired as a brand name.
- US Xchange LLC - A regional LD and competitive local-services firm in Wisconsin.
- USN Communications, Inc. - A national LD and competitive local-services reseller.
- Vitts Networks - New Hampshire-based CLEC providing local dial tone, ATM and DSL services.
- WinStar Telecommunications Inc. - WinStar has more than 300,000 installed lines serving 15,000 business customers in 30 major US markets.
Equipment Manufacturers
- 3Com Corp. - World's #2 maker of computer networking products.
- ADC - Fiber optics, network equipment, software and integration services.
- Alcatel - One of France's largest industrial companies.
- American Tower
- Ascend Communications - Develops wide area networking solutions.
- Ciena - Makes dense-wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems for use with long-distance fiber-optic telecommunications networks.
- Cisco Systems - The worldwide leader in networking for the Internet.
- FORE Systems - Maker of computer networking products based on ATM.
- Fujitsu - Tokyo-based information technology Godzilla.
- Global Crossing - provider of global internet and long distance facilities and services.
- Hitachi, Ltd. - North American division of Japanese electronics giant.
- Info Directions - Providing installed rating, billing and customer care solutions in America, Info Directions offers convergent, web-enabled products to realize effective e-commerce solutions.
- IXC Communications - provides data and voice telecommunications transmission services
- Level 3 Communications - Telecommunications and information services company.
- Lucent Technologies - North America's leading maker of telecom equipment and software.
- MarotzTel – Specializes in customized billing solutions.
- NEC America - Makes advanced communications products and software for public and private networks.
- Nortel Networks - Giant of the Great White North - Canadian-based manufacturer.
- Tellabs Operations - Illinois-based manufacturer.
Global Competitors
- American TeleSource International - Provider of international telecommunications services between the U.S. and specific niche markets within Latin America.
- British Telecom - Long-distance provider in England.
- Deutsche Telekom - Germany’s long-distance provider.
- France Telecom - Long-distance provider in France.
Government
- Federal Communications Commission - Regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.
- U.S. Senate Home Page
- Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee
- FCC Oversight Senate Communications Subcommittee
- U.S. House of Representatives
- Commerce Committee
- FCC Oversight House Telecommunications Subcommittee
Industry Forums
- United States Telecom Association (USTA) - Trade association representing the nation's local exchange carrier industry.
RBOC and Long Distance Providers
- AT&T - The U.S.'s #1 telecom company.
- Bell Atlantic Corp. - #1 U.S. local telephone service provider - rules the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
- BellSouth Corp. - #3 U.S. local phone service provider - concentrates in southeastern U.S.
- MCI WorldCom - #2 in long-distance market.
- Pacific Bell - Subsidiary of SBC Communications.
- SBC Communications (Southwestern Bell) - #2 U.S. local telephone service provider.
- Qwest Communications * - The #4 U.S. long-distance provider.
- Sprint - Also, the #2 non-Baby Bell local-service phone company.
- Verizon – Formed by the merger of GTE and Bell Atlantic.
Research and Development
- ISG-Telecom Consultants
- The Phillips Group - Providing information and strategic consulting to the communications industry.
Industry Groups and Forums
- American Mobile Telecommunications Association - Trade association for the specialized wireless communications industry.
- CDMA Development Group - Consortium promoting CDMA technology.
- Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association - Association supporting cellular carriers and manufacturers.
- GSM MoU Association - Promotes the Global System Mobile communications (GSM) standard.
- Industrial Telecommunications Associations - Advocate for wireless licensees.
- MultiMedia Telecommunications Association - Forum for telecommunications, computer and networking equipment manufacturers.
- North American Mobile Data Initiative - Alliance of GSM carriers and wireless data product vendors.
- Personal Communications Industry Association - Industry group promoting paging and PCS.
- Universal Wireless Communications Consortium - Alliance promoting IS-136 TDMA worldwide.
- Wireless Application Protocol Forum - Forum focused on creating global wireless protocol specifications.
- Wireless Data Forum - Trade association promoting wireless data development.
- Wireless LAN Alliance - Industry group formed to promote wireless LAN systems.
- Wireless LAN Interoperability Forum - Industry group dedicated to establishing interoperability among several companies' wireless LAN systems, based on Proxim's RangeLAN2 technology.
Research and Development
- Alexander Resources - Provides market research and consulting services.
- Center For Wireless Telecommunications - Virginia Tech's wireless communications research center.
- Phillips InfoTech - Provides custom market intelligence for the wireless industry.
- Tarifica - Tracks wireless tariffs worldwide and conducts specialized research.
Service Providers
- Aeris Communications Inc. - Wireless asset tracking provider.
- AirTouch Cellular - Cellular carrier. Does not support CDPD except in Cellular One joint venture with AT&T in San Francisco.
- Alltel Mobile Communications Inc. - Cellular carrier.
- Ameritech Cellular Services - Cellular carrier.
- Ardis - Packet data network. Merged with American Mobile Satellite Corp.
- AT&T Wireless Services - Cellular carrier.
- BellSouth Mobility DCS - BellSouth's PCS division.
- Cellemetry Data Services - BellSouth's wireless asset tracking and remote monitoring division.
- CellularOne - Cellular carrier.
- Excel Telecommunications - Provider of long distance telecommunications and paging services to both residential and commercial customers.
- Intek Diversified Corp. - SMR operator.
- Metricom Inc. - Offers Ricochet wireless Internet service.
- Metrocall - Paging service.
- National Dispatch Center Inc. - Value-added paging service; wireless data gateway service.
- Nextel Communications Inc. - Specialized mobile radio (SMR) service provider.
- NextWave Telecom - PCS carrier.
- Omnipoint Corp. - PCS carrier.
- One-on-One Sports Inc. - Sports information service provider to mobile devices.
- PageNet - Wireless messaging services.
- Pocket Communications - PCS carrier.
- Powertel Inc. - PCS carrier.
- SkyTel - Two-way paging carrier.
- SNET Wireless Service - Cellular carrier.
- Southern LINC - Wireless communications provider that features two-way radio, dispatch, digital phone service, and mobile Internet access.
- Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems - Cellular carrier.
- Sprint PCS - PCS carrier.
- Telecom Wireless Solutions - Provide wireless messaging systems.
- TSR Wireless
- Verizon Wireless – Formed by the merger of GTE and Bell Atlantic.
- International Telecommunication Union
- World Radiocommunication Conferences
- European Telecommunications Satellite Organisation
- U.S. Federal Communications Commission
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Includes Edgar Database.
- U.S. Department of Transportation
- National Telecommmunications and Information Administration
Organizations
- Arabsat
- ESA
- Eumetsat
- European Space Agency (ESA)
- European Space Research and Technology Centre (Estec)
- Federation of American Scientists Space Policy Project
- Globalstar
- ITU satellites
- Satellite Industry Association
Products
- Alenia Aerospazia
- CODAN
- COMLINK
- ComStream Corp.
- DBS Online!
- Globecomm Systems
- Harmonic Data Systems
- Hughes Electronics Corp.
- Hughes Network Systems
- IDB Systems
- Lockheed Martin Corp.
- Maxtech, Inc.
- Miralite Communications
- Netsat Express
- Prodelin Corp.
- R.L. Drake
- Shiron
- Space Systems/Loral
- STM Wireless, Inc.
- American Mobile Satellite Corp.
- American Telesource International, Inc.
- Arianespace
- Asiasat
- ASTRA
- Astrolink
- BAF - Satellite and Technology Corp.
- Bharti BT
- Cancom
- Columbia Communications
- COMSAT
- Constellation Communications Inc.
- Echostar
- Ellipso
- EUTELSAT
- GAPSAT
- GE Americom
- ICO Global Communications
- Inmarsat
- INTELSAT
- Iridium
- IsoQuantic Technologies
- KaSTAR
- LeoOne
- Loral Space Communications
- MSAT
- Mobility Canada Satellite
- Orbcomm
- PanAmSat
- SATKO
- Scientific-Atlanta
- Sintel Satellite Services
- SkyBridge
- SpaceCom Systems, Inc.
- Swedish Space Corp.
- Teledesic Corp.
- Telesat Canada
- Thuraya
- Vista Satellite Communications Inc.
