Enterprise Ireland Showcases Innovative Technology for U.S. Market at CTIA Wireless 2010
Over 26 Irish Companies Unveil Key Technologies for U.S. Wireless and Telecoms Industry
PALO ALTO, Calif., – March 16, 2010 – Enterprise Ireland, the trade and technology agency of the Irish Government, announced today that over 26 telecoms and wireless companies will participate in this year’s CTIA Wireless Conference in Las Vegas on March 23-25. At the Ireland Pavilion (Central Hall, Booth #1727). Altobridge, Accuris, Benetel, FeedHenry, Fifth Province Ventures, Mingoa, NewBay Software, Openet, Tango Telecom, and Yougetitback.com will demo their technology to Enterprise Ireland’s global network of suppliers, distributors, customers and industry experts. Enterprise Ireland has also launched a Web site especially for CTIA at http://americas.enterprise-ireland.com/ctia2010/ctia-company-showcase-2010/ that includes a blog with the latest CTIA and telecom market news.
“There is a lot of market opportunity for Irish companies at present in the U.S.,” said David Smith, senior vice president (telecoms), Enterprise Ireland. “The quality and ambition of our entrepreneurs is a strong force in bringing this technology to the attention of the industry. At CTIA, Irish companies will have the opportunity to meet key players who can help them drive their business forward.”
Enterprise Ireland’s global panel of experts, the Wireless Advisory Group, will provide guidance and support at CTIA to Irish wireless companies on their market strategies for the U.S. Joining Enterprise Ireland at CTIA will be: Chris Boody, AT&T, Hank Skorny, Real Networks, Trevor Healy, Jajah and Kieran Hannon.
The following companies will participate in CTIA:
Altobridge
Altobridge is a leading provider of telecommunications solutions that cuts the cost of communications to, from and between wireless devices. Headquartered in Kerry, Ireland, Altobridge also has offices in the USA, Malaysia and China. Following the strategic acquisition of the ADC Mobile Network Solutions base station and switching business in December 2009, Altobridge can now offer customers the most intelligent, turnkey system for delivering lower transmission costs, lower (and greener) power consumption and optimum returns from the delivery of mobile services to remote communities.
Benetel
Benetel is a wireless test specialist based in Dublin, Ireland, with a rich heritage in base-station and femtocell product design and test. Benetel’s test solutions are for wireless companies who need to introduce a new product with time-critical ramp-up from entry-level production to full volume manufacture. Benetel’s high volume test systems minimize unit cost by maximizing yield and through-put, utilizing cost effective parallel testing with enhanced functionality such at Over The Air testing (OTA).
FeedHenry
FeedHenry is a cloud-based solution for enterprises and telecoms operators enabling them to build cross-platform business applications with standards-based Web technology. Cross-platform apps can be deployed quickly and cost-effectively across all smartphones, desktop and social media sites and run as native apps. FeedHenry’s solution mitigates the need to learn new programming languages and enables customers to reach out across mobile and social channels to users with new and compelling applications. FeedHenry has offices in Silicon Valley, Boston and Ireland, and is one of the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group’s (TSSG) start-up companies.
Tango Telecom
Tango Telecom is a leading provider of Advanced Messaging, Real-time Charging and Policy Control Solutions, enabling the rapid delivery of advanced Voice, SMS and Data services. The company develops and delivers evolutionary network technologies on a single platform, enabling convergence and rapid service delivery in mobile networks. Through a combination of seamless integration capabilities and this evolutionary approach to infrastructure replacement, Tango Telecom’s iAX™ Solution Portfolio enables operators to maximize revenue potential and boost subscriber loyalty. Tango Telecom partners with operators such as Telefonica O2, Vodafone, Indosat, America Movil and the Zain Group to enable services for more than 250 million subscribers worldwide.
Accuris Networks
Accuris Networks is a leading provider of mobile Roaming Inter-Working, Convergence and Device Management solutions. Established in 1997, Accuris Networks is headquartered in Ireland with offices in the U.S. and Malaysia. Led by a team with unrivalled experience in service convergence and service continuity, its AccuROAM platform provides a competitive, cost effective and robust inter-working platform designed to enable mobility and service continuity across multiple network technologies, including voice, data, SMS and all supplementary services while roaming seamlessly between GSM, CDMA, Wi-Fi and WiMAX. The AccuROAM platform also supports voice over LTE (VoLTE) and 3GPP Voice call continuity (VCC) for seamless roaming in/out of Wi-Fi networks for a superior subscriber service experience.
Fifth Province Ventures
Fifth Province Ventures is an Irish company that incubates and prototypes innovative technology concepts to make them credible and engaging to potential investment. One of its projects is Life-Sense -– a Mobile Social Networking platform with a twist. Life-Sense enables real connections between people who should meet but never have. It leverages the power of virtual connectivity so that true social interaction takes place. The platform is built around a genuine business opportunity – an advertising net that allows just- in- time advertising via updatable twitter- like feeds. The company is jointly owned by John Ingram (MD of Animo Communications) and Dr. Gary Mc Darby (former PI with MIT Media Lab Europe).
Mingoa
Mingoa provides Ethernet OAM hardware accelerators. The first product, MetRoam, detects faults and measures performance on Ethernet networks, supporting 802.1ag and Y.1731. MetRoam can be designed into new products or can be used to upgrade existing products to play in the fast growing Ethernet Access and Mobile Backhaul markets. Its low cost and flexible architecture is particularly suited to these cost sensitive and evolving applications. MetRoam is optimized for extremely low gate-count deployment. An FPGA based demonstrator is available.
NewBay Software
NewBay Software is the leader in converged digital lifestyle services, enabling subscribers to create, store, manage, view and share user content. NewBay LifeCache user content ecosystem delivers an integrated set of converged rich -media services across any Internet connected device such as mobile desktop and TV. NewBay’s products include social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, handset and desktop clients, smart address book and messaging services. NewBay LifeCache is built on NewBay’s Astra user content platform to uniquely provide telco-grade, scalable solutions. NewBay delivers profitable, highly successful commercial services for carriers. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, France Telecom Orange, U.S. Cellular and Alltel Wireless. NewBay LifeCache is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live carrier services.
Yougetitback.com
Yougetitback.com provides a multi-platform application and service that helps Protect and Recover mobile phones in the event they are lost or stolen. We make it very easy for a good person to do the right thing and extremely difficult for a bad person to access your data or take advantage of your phone. Mobile Superhero allows a user to remotely lock the phone from the web or by SMS, even after SIM change, preventing the finder/thief from using it or accessing any of the data on it. This application is backed by a global recovery service making it very easy for a found phone to be returned quickly to its owner. YouGetItBack operates in the USA, EMEA and Australia. Mobile Superhero runs on Blackberry OS 4.2.1 or higher, Windows Mobile 5.x & 6.x, Symbian S60 3rd and 5th editions and Android ( coming Spring 2010).
Resources
http://americas.enterprise-ireland.com/ctia2010/ctia-company-showcase-2010/ www.enterprise-ireland.com
www.altobridge.com/
www.benetel.com
www.feedhenry.com
www.tango.ie/
http://www.accuris-networks.com/
http://lifesense.org/User/login
www.mingoa.com/
www.yougetitback.com
www.newbay.com
About Enterprise Ireland
Enterprise Ireland is the trade and technology agency of the Irish government. Its core mission is to accelerate the development of world-class Irish companies to achieve strong positions in global markets, resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. Ireland is recognized as being best connected to innovative new companies and emerging technologies internationally. Enterprise Ireland’s strong connections means it can help Irish companies become an integral part of new solutions being globally researched, developed and marketed worldwide. Enterprise Ireland has a network of 10 Irish and 32 international offices worldwide. For more information visit: www.enterprise-ireland.com or http://americas.enterprise-ireland.com/ctia2010/ctia-company-showcase-2010
For more information contact:
Aoife Kimber
KimberPR for Enterprise Ireland
+ 1 650 773 7288
akimber@kimberpr.com
www.kimberpr.com
David Smith
Senior Vice President (Telecoms)
Enterprise Ireland
+1 650 329 1414 x 102
david.smith@enterprise-ireland.com
http://americas.enterprise-ireland.com/ctia2010/ctia-company-showcase-2010
Ireland Pavilion, Central Hall, C3 Booth #1727
