Teleport

Teleport is one of the leading enterprises of satellite communication in Russia, the official Russian operator of the international satellite communication systems «INTELSAT» and «EUTELSAT». The services provided by Teleport include national and international digital telephone communication (including via the dedicated network), data transmission and Internet network access, channels and connection paths leasing, as well as corporate networking.

A stable reputation of the company based on long-term experience of communication networks maintenance, highly professional experts team and reliable customer support service give to its clients confidence in high performance of services and creates favorable conditions for further strengthening of Teleport's positions both in the international and Russian telecommunication market.

Rostelecom

Rostelecom is the largest communication company of Russia, national operator of long-distance and international telecommunications and leader in the Russian telecommunication service market.

Widely recognized in the world telecom market, Rostelecom cooperates closely with foreign operators and participates in major international telecommunication projects.

Rostelecom operates a power transport telecommunication network within the entire territory of the Russian Federation. The backbone trunks extend for more than 200 thousand kilometers with 40 thousand of them being modern digital transmission lines.

The Company ensures transfer of a principle share of interurban and international traffic, as well as operation of television and broadcast channel land network. Rostelecom provides intercommunication of Russia with 211 countries of the world, has direct international lines of communication with 75 operators in 72 countries.

Today Rostelecom runs a powerful telecommunication network which offers high-quality communications meeting the world standards, carries out large-scale projects to build new links based on the cutting edge fiber-optic technologies and is creating its own satellite network, provides access to the global Internet and other advanced telecom services meeting the growing needs of the Russian economy.

TeleRoss

TeleRoss, a new voice/data networking and Internet company, that appeared as a result of the merger of the three well known telecom operators - Sovam Teleport, TeleRoss and TCM. Their combined annual revenue is about $90 mln. The new TeleRoss has operations in over 90 cities of Russia and the CIS and will be operating in the market under the Golden Telecom trademark. The TeleRoss network, one of the largest overlay networks in Russia, is a satellite backbone network which also utilizes

fiber optic channels where available. It provides services via 14 regional ventures, all of which are joint ventures between GTS and the regional telecom administrations (Electrosvyazs). Marconi Communications

Marconi plc is a global communications and information technology company that provides the superhighways for information traffic to move rapidly from origin to destination. Marconi Communications supplies key technologies, equipment and services for the Internet, enterprise networks and telecommunications systems. Organizations around the world use Marconi's Intelligent Broadband Networking Solutions to gain speed for quickly penetrating new markets, power to deliver smart services, and momentum for seizing new opportunities in the marketplace.
Already many of the top telcos worldwide, leading ISPs (including UUNET and Cable & Wireless) and high-performance enterprise environments use Marconi to simplify the management of their networks and light the way to a unified, multi-service network architecture.
With around 55,000 employees, research and development facilities in 19 countries, manufacturing operations in 16 countries, and customers in over 100 countries, Marconi offers a high quality of service on a worldwide scale.
Headquartered in London, Marconi was listed on the London Stock Exchange in November 1999. However, Marconi's heritage stems back to the 1900s with Guglielmo Marconi, the Nobel Prize winner and wireless communication pioneer.
Within public networks, Marconi is a major supplier of optical networking in the area of synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) technology. In private networks, Marconi offers a broad portfolio of solutions for Ethernet and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks. These solutions provide a reliable foundation for building networks that last. With industry innovations like firewall switching and policy based network management, Marconi has the experience and vision to implement rock solid enterprise network solutions.

Cisco Systems Inc.

Cisco Systems is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco's networking solutions connect people, computing devices and computer networks, allowing people to access or transfer information without regard to differences in time, place or type of computer system.
Cisco provides end-to-end networking solutions that customers use to build a unified information infrastructure of their own, or to connect to someone else's network.
Cisco's offers the industry's broadest range of hardware products used to form information networks or give people access to those networks; Cisco IOS® software, which provides network services and enables networked applications; expertise in network design and implementation; and technical support and professional services to maintain and optimize network operations. Cisco is unique in its ability to provide all these elements, either by itself or together with partners.
Cisco sells its products in approximately 115 countries through a direct sales force, distributors, value-added resellers and system integrators.
Cisco is today the world's largest Internet commerce site, with 90% of our orders transacted over the web.
Cisco is one of America's greatest corporate success stories. Since shipping its first product in 1986, the company has grown into a global market leader that holds No. 1 or No. 2 market share in virtually every market segment in which it participates. Since becoming a public company in 1990, Cisco's annual revenues have increased from million in that year to .9 billion in fiscal. As measured by market capitalization, Cisco is among the largest in the world.

Cable & Wireless

Cable&Wireless is the leading provider of Internet protocol and data services to business customers. From its beginning in the 1860s, Cable & Wireless has played a major part in the establishment and development of telecommunications around the world. It specialises in providing services to business customers in 8 market segments and in 70 countries throughout the world. Its services span traditional voice to the more complex data and IP services, such as web-hosting, e-commerce solutions and integrated communications services that are transforming its customers' business models. Cable & Wireless is already one of the top IP providers to business customers and one of the largest Internet backbone carriers in the world. It works in partnership with best of breed technology providers including Microsoft, Nokia and Compaq to deliver integrated, globally managed solutions to its customers anywhere in the world. Cable&Wireless is committed to delivering the Internet promise: to maximise business performance and minimise costs through the provision of fast, secure and reliable communications solutions, in any form, anywhere in the world.

ECI Telecom

ECI Telecom is a world leader in integrated network solutions. Built on a solid foundation of customer commitment and technological excellence, ECI Telecom provides leading edge digital telecommunications and data transmission systems to Network Service Providers around the globe. By deploying ECI Telecom's Do More products in their telecommunications infrastructure, Service Providers can make their networks more competitive - offering everything from cost-effective expanded capacity and boosted performance to new profit-generating subscriber services.
ECI Telecom's solutions are deployed in over 140 countries worldwide. Supporting a prestigious and expanding customer base, ECI Telecom serves all of the world's major carriers including AT&T, Bezeq, British Telecom, China MPT, Deutsche Telekom, Embratel, France Telecom, GTE, Hong Kong Telecom, MCI, MGTS (Moscow City Telephony Network), Mercury, PLDT, Pacific Bell, Rostelecom, Telecom Argentina, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telstra, US Sprint, Videsh, and Worldcom among many other carriers.

ECI Telecom first gained world prominence by introducing the concept of toll-quality international traffic compression. Currently over 70% of the all compressed international toll-quality voice and facsimile traffic is transported through ECI Telecom compression (DCME) systems.

ECI Telecom is a leading supplier of digital pair gain solutions worldwide, providing a complete family of products that multiply local copper loop capabilities to enhance network access capacity. ECI Telecom was also the first company to deploy HDSL (High bit rate Digital Subscriber Line) systems and today maintains significant market leadership in the HDSL market.

ECI Telecom's commitment to consistent innovation continues in SDH. Having installed the world's first operational SDH ring and the world's longest SDH chain, ECI Telecom holds a significant share of international SDH installations.

Newbridge Networks

Newbridge Networks is a world leader in designing, manufacturing and servicing a comprehensive family of networking products and systems that delivers the power of multimedia communications to organizations in more than 100 countries throughout the world. Newbridge products are the choice of an expanding range of customers that includes the world's 200 largest telecommunications service providers, as well as more than 10,000 public and private enterprises, government organizations and other institutions.
Newbridge provides fully managed networks for transmitting voice, data, image and video traffic. Newbridge end-to-end networking solutions are standards-based and incorporate both new and widely-adopted technologies including asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), frame relay, time division multiplexing (TDM) and X.25, all manageable by a single network management system.
Newbridge Networks is an active member of leading industry associations and organizations that help define specifications and standards for ATM, frame relay, network management and other state-of-the-art technologies.
The Newbridge product line consists of narrowband and broadband digital networking products which operate under center-weighted network management. These products provide both wide area and local area networking (WAN/LAN) and offer software-controlled desktop-to-desktop connectivity. Newbridge products are designed to support TDM, ATM and frame relay in the same network. Products are modular for scalability and can be upgraded as advances in technology are achieved.