Welcome to Holdfast



	Nortel Networks Nortel's commitment to being the leader in next-generation network evolution is challenging and futuristic, but grounded in the reality that it currently has one of the best portfolios of products and technologies in the industry. It has three core business areas: Metro and Enterprise Networks, Wireless Networks and Optical Long-Haul Networks.

	Sun Microsystems(China) Co., Ltd. Sun is committed to developing network computing technology, products and services, including mainframe systems, servers, workstation operating systems and enterprise network computing software.

	Juniper Networks Juniper Networks is a leading provider of best-in-class edge and core routing solutions for government agencies, research and educational facilities, enterprise businesses and top network service providers worldwide. The Juniper Networks family of products utilizes advanced packet processors to enable customers to offer services ranging from best-effort internet to guaranteed delivery of rich media, video and voice services --all at full wire speed.

	Netscreen NetScreen Technologies Inc. is a leading developer of integrated network security solutions that offer the security, performance and total cost of ownership required by enterprises and carriers. NetScreen's innovative solutions provide key security technologies, such as virtual private network, denial of service protection, firewall and intrusion prevention, in a line of easy-to-manage security appliances and systems.

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	ALCATEL(CHINA) Alcatel is the world's leading supplier of telecommunication infrastructures and a market leader in high-speed Internet access and optical networks. It is Alcatel's long-term vision and advanced technologies that have earned the Group its success. Alcatel offers turnkey solutions, whether for simple telephone service or for complex multimedia networks. Its portfolio includes a full line of the innovative products needed to build any type of communication network. Its customers are telecommunications operators and Internet service providers as well as businesses and consumers.

	Network Appliance Network Appliance (NASDAQ: NTAP) is a recognized leader in enterprise storage and the delivery of data and content on demand. NetApp? solutions empower enterprises with sustainable competitive advantage, improved profitability, and faster time-to-market by exploiting untapped value in IT infrastructures. Designed to enable enterprises to create global data management strategies today, NetApp storage solutions ensure that customers get information where it's needed, when it's needed-more efficiently, more effectively, and more reliably than with any other solution available.

	Radware Radware's product suite of Application Switching solutions seamlessly manage and optimize the performance of servers, security devices and ISP links - ensuring the full alignment of applications and traffic to the best performing resources in the enterprise infrastructure. Radware is the only vendor to provide an end-to-end solution, providing robust and scalable network traffic assurance.

	REDBACK Founded in 1996 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Redback Networks Inc., enables carriers and service providers to build profitable next-generation broadband networks by reducing operational expenses and increasing potential revenue per subscriber. The company offers industry-leading solutions for the edge of the network - subscriber management, edge router, next-generation SONET/SDH transport, and a comprehensive set of network provisioning and management software.

	Micromuse Micromuse is the leading provider of service and business assurance software. Micromuse's Netcool?suite, which began shipping in 1996, is the core IT management solution in many of the world's most successful service providers and enterprises.

	Foundry Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY) Foundry Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY) is one of the world's leading next-generation networking companies. It provides end-to-end Global Ethernet and intelligent traffic-management solutions. Its products include Internet routers, Layer 2/3 LAN switches, and Layer 4-7 web switches with integrated Internet traffic and content management. We have more than 3,300 customers worldwide, including the world's leading enterprises, Internet-based businesses, Metro Area and Internet service providers and other institutions.

	Paradyne Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: PDYN) Paradyne Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: PDYN) develops and manufactures high-speed broadband access products and technology to support and manage today's high-bandwidth applications and growing network traffic.

	Oracle Oracle is the world's leading e-business solutions provider, supplying database systems, tools, applications, consulting, and support.

	Sybase For 18 years, Sybase has delivered open-architecture enterprise infrastructure software, including databases, development tools, integration middleware, enterprise portals, and mobile and wireless servers. Sybase enterprise software solutions bridge all technology platforms, and ensure that everything works together. Because "Everything Works Better When Everything Works Together.

	HP HP is a leading provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and business. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services, and imaging and printing.

	EMC EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks, and services. The only company fully dedicated to providing automated networked storage solutions, EMC helps organizations of all sizes across the globe to better and more cost-effectively manage, protect, and share their information.

	VERITAS VERITAS Software Corporation (Nasdaq: VRTS) is the world's leading storage software company providing data protection, storage management, high availability and disaster recovery software to 86% of the Fortune 500. All VERITAS software is open, supporting all significant business applications, operating systems and storage hardware. This flexibility is a result of the underlying VERITAS Adaptive Software Architecture.

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	Intel

	Cisco Systems, Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco's Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of the Internet and most corporate, education, and government networks around the world. Cisco provides the broadest line of solutions for transporting data, voice and video within buildings, across campuses, or around the world.

	Computer Associates International, Inc. Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) delivers The Software That Manages eBusiness. CA's world-class solutions address all aspects of eBusiness management through industry-leading brands: Unicenter for infrastructure management, eTrust for security management, BrightStor for storage management, CleverPath for portal and business intelligence, AllFusion for application life cycle management, Advantage for data management and application development, and Jasmine for object-oriented database technology.

	Lucent Technologies Lucent has assembled the most complete portfolio of products targeted at communications service providers. It now has two primary operating units, each with its own sales and product organizations tailored to the need of their individual customers. Its solutions are designed for wireline networks and mobility networks, although many Lucent solutions work across both. Its core technology strengths in optical, data and wireless remain critical to Lucent's ability to serve the needs of service providers effectively. Its customers can look to Lucent to continue to provide the industry's most complete network management systems and service support capabilities for their networks.

	Check Point Software Technologies Check Point Software Technologies is the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. It is the confirmed market leader of both the worldwide VPN and firewall markets. The company's Secure Virtual Network (SVN) architecture provides the VPN and security infrastructure that uniquely enables secure and reliable Internet communications. SVN solutions, as delivered in the company's Next Generation product family, secure business communications and resources for corporate networks, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets.

	Network Associates With headquarters in Santa Clara Calif., Network Associates (NYSE: NET) is a leading provider of network security and availability technology. Network Associates is comprised of three businesses. The McAfee Security products and online security services maintain worldwide market share leadership in the anti-virus space, and Sniffer Technologies are the de facto standard in network monitoring and analysis across the globe.

	BEA BEA is the world's leading application infrastructure software company with more than 13,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. Companies turn to BEA to help them evolve their existing enterprise software applications from inflexible, redundant, legacy client/server architectures to highly responsive, mature Web infrastructures. Companies built on BEA software are able to use IT to effect rapid change within their organizations and achieve breakthrough levels of efficiency and responsiveness.

	Openwave Openwave is the world's largest provider of mobile Internet software. Its open software suite, Openwave? Services OS?, enables telecommunications companies and wireless service providers to rapidly create and deploy new revenue-generating services while providing their subscribers with a richer, more personalized experience than ever before.

	Marconi As a global company that provides the hardware and software for communication and information industries, Marconi prides itself on a proven record of innovation and technological breakthroughs.