Ralink sponsors CONNECTIONS Europe 2010

CONNECTIONS Europe is excited to announce RalinkTechnology Corporation as a 2010 Advisory Sponsor.

Ralink Technology Corporation is a leading innovator and developer of wireless chipset solutions. Ralink products are recognized for the superior throughput, extended range, low-power consumption and consistent reliability required for Wi-Fi, mobile and embedded applications. These feature-rich chipsets have a high level of chip integration, enabling customers to build smaller and more sophisticated mobile wireless products cost-effectively.

Ralink’s patented MIMObility™ technology extends Wi-Fi applications from traditional PC networking to a range of digital multimedia and handheld devices including cell phones, PDAs, cameras, print servers, HDTV and video game players. Ralink customers can look forward to continuous improvements in speed, bandwidth and reliability with IEEE 802.11n solutions for next-generation high-performance Wi-Fi. Ralink Technology was founded in 2001 with headquarters in Hsin-chu, Taiwan and an R&D center in Cupertino, California.

For more information, visit Ralink at www.ralinktech.com.

CONNECTIONS Europe Welcomes New Sponsor

Parks Associates welcomes Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) as a 2010 Advisory Sponsor for the CONNECTIONS Europe Summit in Amsterdam.

Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) provides set-top solutions to the worldwide digital television industry. We supply advanced customer premise equipment across all transmission platforms including cable, IPTV, satellite, and terrestrial. We strive to bring to market innovative solutions that help our customers deliver the best consumer TV experience. A leader in hybrid set-top devices with deep software expertise, ADB enables the Internet/TV content convergence, letting operators provide innovative services such as push video-on-demand, multi-room DVR, interactive TV, over-the-top applications and more. We fine-tune the entire software and hardware set-top solution for each operator’s specific infrastructure to deliver peak performance. With over 15 million digital set-top devices sold to a global customer base, our products have been recognised for being among the industry’s most advanced and reliable.

For more information, visit www.adb.com.

Berlin Sponsor, ZiLOG provides innovative, embedded control solutions.

Parks Associates is proud to announce ZiLOG as a 2008 CONNECTIONS Europe Berlin sponsor.

Founded in 1974 by Federico Faggin, the inventor of the world's first microprocessor, ZiLOG builds semiconductor products that enable design engineers to break through the barriers to creativity and innovation in embedded design. ZiLOG is the inventor of the award-winning Z80 and Z8 microchip architectures that have been embedded in over a billion end-use devices worldwide. Companies get more innovative products to market faster because ZiLOG products and design tools help them turn their imagination into consumer appliances, remote controls, vending machines, telecommunications controllers, home automation systems, spacecraft instrumentation, industrial automation systems, and thousands of other products.

Within the five broad product segments of the semiconductor market, which includes micro-logic, other logic, memory, analog and discrete devices, ZiLOG 's products are focused primarily in the micro-logic device segment. Micro-logic devices are processor-based semiconductors that include microprocessors, microcontrollers and digital signal processors that process information, output data or control signals according to programmed instructions and various external inputs.

ZiLOG designs, manufactures and markets both general-purpose and application specific standard products (ASSPs). ASSPs are tailored for a specific application but are not proprietary to a single customer, while general-purpose products are neither application nor customer specific. Most of our products focus today on micro-logic devices used in embedded control, primarily 8--bit microcontrollers. In turn, 8-bit microcontrollers are embedded into literally hundreds of different end-use applications.

ZiLOG will also be participating on the Digital Home Customer Support: Enhancing the Experience panel on August 29th at 3:30 PM.

Macrovision speaks at CONNECTIONS Berlin

Macrovision's Chief Evangelist, Richard Bullwinkle, will speak at the CONNECTIONS Europe Summit in Berlin on this Friday, August 29. Mr. Bullwinkle will participate on the Evolution of Video Devices panel scheduled to begin at 13:00 (1:00 PM) Central Europe Time.

Macrovision is focused on providing a brilliantly simple digital home entertainment experience by delivering solutions to businesses to protect, enhance and distribute digital goods to consumers across multiple channels. Macrovision’s technologies are deployed by companies in the entertainment, consumer electronics, cable and satellite, and online distribution markets to solve industry-specific challenges and bring greater value and a more robust user experience to their customers. The result of deploying Macrovision’s solutions is a simple end user experience for discovering, acquiring, managing and enjoying digital content.

Today, Macrovision provides connected middleware, metadata on music, games, movies and television programming, media recognition, interactive programming guides, and copy protection. The company also operates entertainment portals including http://www.tvguide.com/ and http://www.allmusic.com .

Macrovision is also an Advisory Sponsor of CONNECTIONS Europe 2008.

F-Secure, Berlin Sponsor

Parks Associates is proud to announce F-Secure as an Advisory Sponsor for CONNECTIONS Europe 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

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/.

Cord Stukenberg, Director, Service Provider Solutions of F-Secure will be speaking on the Customer Support panel on Friday, August 29 at 3:30 PM.

support.com Sponsors Berlin's CONNECTIONS Europe Summit

Parks Associates proudly welcomes support.com as a 2008 Advisory Sponsor for CONNECTIONS Europe in Berlin, Germany.

support.com provides Instant Technology Relief(r) to consumers and small businesses by resolving their PC-related problems quickly and easily. support.com also powers premium support offerings for partners such as eircom and Office Depot, using an integrated remote service delivery system to ensure a world-class customer experience.

The company behind support.com is SupportSoft, a leading provider of software and services that make technology work by allowing both users and analysts to detect, diagnose and correct problems at home, in the office and anywhere in between.

Anthony Rodio, Chief Operating Officer, support.com will be speaking on the Digital Lifestyles Customer Support: Enhancing the Experience panel on August 29 at 3:30 PM. In addition, Anthony will be participating in the Retailers and Tech Support for the Digital Home session. This is a special Q & A Session regarding how tech support companies are applying lessons learned in the U.S. retail space to selling and servicing the digital home in Europe.

For more information about the company, visit http://www.supportsoft.com/.

Home Networking to reach 168 Million Households Worldwide in '08: CONNECTIONS Europe focuses on entertainment & multimedia services in EU markets

Rapid growth in home networking, approaching 168 million households worldwide in 2008, is laying the foundation for expansion of multimedia services internationally and especially in the European markets, according to Parks Associates.

The market research firm will host CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit on August 29, 2008, at the Kempinski Hotel Bristol Berlin, to discuss the implications of this market growth and share the latest findings of its Global Digital Living™ (GDL) project.

Parks Associates launched GDL in 2005 to track and analyze international adoption and consumer attitudes toward advanced digital technologies and services. The most recent survey, GDL: Entertainment 2.0 in Europe, studies the growth of entertainment services in the top European markets. The project includes country profiles and consumer surveys and examines adoption and valuation of DVDs, online video and video-on-demand, DVRs, and high-definition TV services, among other topics.

CONNECTIONS™ Europe will provide attendees with international consumer research and feature interactive discussions on advanced television services, new media and digital content, and value-added services.

Advisory sponsors for CONNECTIONS™ Europe: Cisco, Enure Networks, F-Secure Corporation, Macrovision, the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA), Neotion, support.com, Toshiba Electronics Europe, WirelessHD, and Zilog, Inc.

The event agenda features speakers from the following companies and organizations: ActiveVideo Networks
ARM
Cisco
Deutsche Telekom
Enure Networks
F-Secure
Home Gateway Initiative
HomePlug Powerline Alliance
Macrovision
Makewave AB
MoreTV
NEC Europe
Neotion
Nokia Siemens Networks
OSGi Alliance
Qualcomm
Shiny Media
SiBEAM, Inc.
SPiDCOM Technologies
Sonic Solutions
support.com
Texas Instruments
Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH
WirelessHD
Zilog

Parks Associates announces sponsors for CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit in Berlin

Parks Associates announced the sponsors for CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit, taking place August 29, 2008, at the Kempinski Hotel Bristol Berlin. This Executive Summit will provide attendees with consumer research from international market research firm Parks Associates and feature interactive discussions focused on advanced television services, new media and digital content, and value-added services.

Advisory sponsors for the event: Cisco Systems, Enure Networks, F-Secure Corporation, the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA), support.com, Toshiba, WirelessHD, and Zilog, Inc.

The WirelessHD Consortium will host a pre-show workshop on Thursday, August 28, to address how WirelessHD technology is advancing instant wireless access to high-quality digital content with simple controls. CONNECTIONS™ Europe will host an evening reception on August 28, where attendees and media can meet event participants.

Platinum supporting organizations: Home Gateway Initiative (HGI), Innovation Lab

Platinum supporting media: CE-Business, ChannelPartner, HiddenWires, Home Toys

Supporting organizations: ADMIN Ltd., Hong Kong Wireless Development Centre, OSGi Alliance, the SIP Center, Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP)

Supporting media: Advanced-television.com, AutomatedBuildings.com, AV & DOMOTICA, BPL Today, The BRIDGE, Conference Guru, Connect-World, Convergence World, Domotique News, Euromedia, The Evening Bridge, FierceWireless:Europe, Global Sources Publications Limited, IPTV Industry, IPTV International, IP Television Magazine, mCubeDigital.com, Mobile Video Magazine, Next-generation Network (NGN), SkyREPORT.com, TelecomsEurope, Triple Play News, TVover.net, WiMAX Industry, Wireless Business

The full press release is available: http://newsroom.parksassociates.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=5086

Enure Networks Announced as CONNECTIONS Europe Summit Series Sponsor

Parks Associates and CEA are proud to announce Enure Networks as an Advisory Sponsor for CONNECTIONS Europe Summit Series 2008 held in France and Germany.

Enure Networks provides the world’s first and award-winning patented home network management software solution capable of completely and intelligently automating the entire broadband home network environment. This includes automating set up, security, configuration, diagnosis and the self healing of connectivity problems in real time. The solution operates without the need for user or service provider intervention. This level of intelligent automaton in

Enure’s products dramatically reduces technical support inquires, operations and costs for telecommunications and cable broadband and triple play service providers. Enure Networks is a venture capital-backed company with funding from Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. More information can be found online at http://www.enure.com/.

If your company is interested in becoming an Advisory Sponsor or Supporting Sponsor, please contact Steve Harvey at 972.996.0221 or steve.harvey@parksassociates.com.

MoCA Sponsors CONNECTIONS Europe Summit Series

Parks Associates and CEA welcome The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA™) as an Advisory Sponsor at this year's CONNECTIONS Europe Summit Series.

MoCA is an open, industry driven initiative promoting distribution of digital video and entertainment through existing coaxial cable in the home. MoCA technology provides the backbone for whole home entertainment networks of multiple wired and wireless products. Visit http://www.mocalliance.org/ for more information.

For additional sponsorship information, please contact Steve Harvey: by phone at 972.996.0221 or by email at steve.harvey@parksassociates.com .