Advisory Sponsors

As an increasingly intelligent network evolves into a platform, users will be able to communicate from any device and in whatever mode they choose. www.cisco.com

Enure Networks
Enure Networks provides consumer-grade software tools that automatically manage the home network enabling consumers and small businesses to simply enjoy hassle-free connected digital services. Since it was founded in 2003, the company has established itself as a technology leader, providing an unprecedented level of automation-based consumer friendliness. Enure’s ServiceShield™ software tool automatically installs, corrects and manages the consumer’s home network; the web-based TIC™ server ensures simplified network management and maintenance for providers. Internet service providers, customer premise equipment manufacturers, retail support companies and value added service vendors can now enrich their consumer offering with affordable, automated support packages. For more information, visit www.enure.com.

F-Secure Corporation
F-Secure Corporation protects consumers and businesses against computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile networks. F-Secure’s award-winning solutions are available as a service subscription through more than 160 Internet service providers and mobile operator partners around the world, making F-Secure the global leader in this market. The solutions are also available as licensed products through thousands of resellers globally. The company aspires to be the most reliable security provider, helping to make computer and smartphone users’ connected lives safe and easy. This is substantiated by the company’s independently proven ability to respond faster to new threats than its main competitors. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Finland, F-Secure has been listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki since 1999. The company has consistently been one of the fastest growing publicly listed companies in the industry. The latest news on real-time virus threat scenarios is available at the F-Secure Data Security Lab weblog at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/.

MoCA's Board of Directors includes Broadcom, Comcast, Conexant, Cox Communications, EchoStar, Entropic Communications, Linksys (a Cisco company), Motorola, Panasonic, Radio Shack and Verizon. For more information, please visit www.mocalliance.org.

NEOTION is the leading provider of solutions enabling consumer electronics manufacturers to integrate MPEG-4 technology into their products. Its pioneering vision of the digital world coupled with a state-of-the-art technology leads NEOTION to develop innovative and breakthrough solutions, anticipating digital home convergence.

Its products enable legacy Digital TVs and decoders to be compatible with the MPEG-4 standard thus permitting VOD, IPTV and many more interactive applications.

The company also addresses the requirements of the digital TV industry, primary OEM and ODM, by providing reference designs and innovative services marketed under the label “myNEOTIONBox”. NEOTION is an active member of DVB, AVC Alliance and MPEG-IF. www.neotion.com

Providing design, manufacturing, marketing and sales, TEE was formed in 1973 in Neuss, Germany. The company now has headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany and subsidiaries in France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Company president is Mr. Ootsuka and the total number of personnel in Europe is around 400.

TEE offers one of the industry's broadest IC and discrete product lines including high-end memory, microcontrollers, ASICs, ASSPs and display products for automotive, multimedia, consumer, telecoms and networking applications. The company also has a wide range of power semiconductor solutions.

The ASIC & Foundry Business Unit supports system OEM and fabless chip companies with custom SoC (System-on-Chip) solutions. Our customers can select from gate arrays, cell-based ICs, embedded arrays, Toshiba’s new Universal Array™, custom system-on-chip (SoC) and foundry service depending on performance and time-to-market objectives.

TEE’s European LSI Design and Engineering Center (ELDEC), located in Düsseldorf, includes the design & implementation and electronic design automation (EDA) tool teams for application specific integrated circuits (ASIC). Additionally we have several local development teams for automotive, multimedia and wireless application specific standard products (ASSP). www.toshiba-components.com/ASIC

WirelessHD
Formed in 2006, the WirelessHD Consortium has created the next generation wireless interface specification for HD media streaming and transmission. WirelessHD will facilitate technical advancement by creating a specification focused on fixed and portable devices. WirelessHD is the first CE and technology industry-supported, HD digital wireless interface for simplified media streaming and HD content portability. For more information on WirelessHD, please visit www.wirelesshd.org.