Current Sponsors
Platinum Sponsor
Finley Engineering Company is an end-to-end consulting engineering company. We specialize in complete engineering services in the fields of telecommunications and electric power transmission and distribution, project management, cable television, and right-of-way services. Our number one goal is to assure your project will be completed to your specifications, on-time-on-budget, and in compliance with applicable operating and environmental regulations.
Gold Sponsors
Brocade® offers high–performance Ethernet and IP solutions for enterprises and service providers. The Brocade product portfolio enables wireline and wireless network convergence and deployment of feature-rich and secure network infrastructures to support advanced data, voice, and video applications. Brocade’s portfolio includes Layer 2/Layer 3, Layer 4-7 switches and routers.
Walker and Associates is the premier distributor of network products solutions, providing world class supply chain management, network deployment kits, quality installation, systems integration and unsurpassed service to domestic telecommunications service provider markets. The company is celebrating 40 years of success with a service base exceeding 1200 service providers.
Association Sponsors
The Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) is a not-for-profit industry association dedicated to the advancement of intelligent home and intelligent building technologies in North America. CABA provides its members with networking and market research opportunities. CABA also encourages the development of industry standards and protocols, and leads cross-industry initiatives.
HomeGrid Forum supports the development of a next-generation, unified coaxial, phone line and powerline home networking standard and a next generation Smartgrid technology, promoting their wide adoption, and ensures compliance and interoperability.
The HomePNA™ Alliance is a community of leading technology companies, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and service providers working together to develop, promote and support home networking solutions based on internationally recognized, open and interoperable HomePNA standards
Media Sponsors
BBP is the leading source of information on access technologies and broadband applications for buildings and communities.
JSI Capital Advisors provides specialized transaction advisory, valuation and research services to the rural and independent communications provider industry. Our unparalleled combination of regulatory, financial and transactional expertise, along with extensive relations developed over nearly 40 years of serving the industry, uniquely positions us to address your strategic advisory needs.
Light Reading is the leading online media, research, and focused event company serving the $3 trillion worldwide communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for technology and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation.
MuniWireless is the portal for information about large scale Wi-Fi networks and wireless applications in transportation, smart grid and public safety.
New Edge, NTCA’s business & technology blog, is designed specifically for rural telecom professionals. The online publication focuses on emerging technologies, competitive issues, industry partnerships, mergers & acquisitions, research and marketplace trends. Visit www.ntca.org/new-edge to read the blog and to sign-up for a free subscription to our weekly e-mail digest.
Parks Associates is an internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small start-ups through market reports, primary studies, consumer research, custom research, workshops, executive conferences, and annual service subscriptions. The company’s expertise includes new media, digital entertainment and gaming, home networks, Internet and television services, digital health, mobile applications and services, consumer electronics, energy management, and home control systems and security.
Pike Research is a market research and consulting firm that provides in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The company’s research methodology combines supply-side industry analysis, end-user primary research and demand assessment, and deep examination of technology trends to provide a comprehensive view of industry sectors like Smart Grid, Electric Vehicles, and much more.
Smart Grid Today is the worldwide daily journal of the modern utility industry. It features independent, unbiased reporting on the smart grid industry including federal and state grants and regulations; the evolution of legal issues; technology and service breakthroughs, among other topics. Visit http://www.SmartGridToday.com/TRIAL to sign up for a 14-day risk-free trial today.