Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a leading developer of communications solutions for businesses of all sizes.  Through its world-class unified communications platform, CallXpress, and its innovative speech application module,Senaca, AVST offers the industry's most powerful suite of second generation communications solutions including voice messaging, unified messaging,speech-enabled applications (including automated attendant and hands-free mobile worker access), and  call processing (including embedded IVR).
	Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco's Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco has been at the heart of many historic changes in technology, and that continues to be true today. Now, at a time when the technology industry is going through a period of dramatic change, Cisco is the market leader in multiple areas,such as routing and switching, unified communications, wireless and security. The company helped catalyze the industry's move toward IP and, now that it is fully underway, the company is at the center of fundamental changes in the way the world communications.
	Ericsson provides business communication solutions, with a firm focus on mobility and business-class services. We have identified mobility as the key to success for enterprises of the future, and our aim is to increase productivity and quality-of-life by providing business users with personalized seamless access to applications and services anywhere, anytime, over any medium. Ericsson's experience in fixed and mobile infrastructure, combined with our expertise in enterprise applications and mobile Internet application development, means we are ideally placed to meet the needs of converged businesses, today and tomorrow. It also means we are able to provide an informed, collaborative relationship with our partners and customers, supporting mobile operators in addressing a key market segment for business growth.
	Microsoft's vision for unified communications enables a people-centric solution of rich, intuitive, and seamless communications across e-mail, IM, voice, data, video, and conferencing. Microsoft offers companies a complete software platform that unifies all communications with their business applications and processes, streamlining how people reach each other and communicate.
	Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world's most critical information. Serving both service provider and enterprise customers, Nortel delivers innovative technology solutions encompassing end-to-end broadband, Voice over IP, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband designed to help people solve the world's greatest challenges.
	Siemens Communications is one of the world's largest players in the telecommunications industry, active in more than 160 countries. Unique in global comparison, Siemens Communications consolidates experience and competence in every key market segment - mobile or fixed-line telephones for consumers as well as complex network infrastructures, solution packages or applications for enterprises and network operators.