Sponsors

HEAnet would like to thank this year's sponsors for their support to our conference:

Sponsor of the Gala Dinner and Evening Event:
	LAN Communications was established in 1993 with the express aim of bringing leading-edge communications solutions to Irish industry. With a strong understanding of both the business and technical issues facing organisations today, it has been extremely successful in building a market-leading customer base across all industry sectors. From pre-sales consultancy and systems integration through to project management and professional services, LAN Communications operates close working relationships with virtually all of the key IT hardware and software manufacturers. Its pool of highly-skilled engineers hold many of the highest accreditations in the industry including unique status as the first indigenous fully-certified Cisco Gold partner in Ireland. LAN Communications also provides a range of outsourced network management services from its Network Operations Centre in Dublin. LAN Communications is a subsidiary of eircom.

Providing broadband connectivity to the Conference venue:
	Esat BT is a wholly owned subsidiary of BT plc. Esat BT is a fully integrated part of BTs international broadband network business, focused primarily on providing services and solutions to multi-site corporates. Esat BT also operates in the residential home phone and Internet markets.

Sponsors of the wireless LAN for delegates:
	PlanNet21 Communications is a System Integration company based in Ireland with offices in Dublin, Cork, Belfast and Galway. The company implements network solutions in the areas of LANs, WANs, IP Telephony, Wireless LAN, Security, Storage Area Networks (SAN), and Video Conferencing. PlanNet21 has formed strategic technology partnerships with leading network equipment suppliers, including Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Extreme Networks, Nortel Networks, 3Com, Check Point, Compaq, IBM, Polycom, and Microsoft. Thus PlanNet21 is capable of delivering solutions with the highest level of quality, performance and support.

Sponsor of the delegate bags:
	Michael Dell started the company in 1984 with the revolutionary idea to sell custom built computers directly to the customer. With the power of direct and Dell's team of talented people, we are able to provide customers with superb value; high-quality, relevant technology; customized systems; superior service and support; and products and services that are easy to buy and use.

Sponsor of the speakers reception:
	Founded in 1927, the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) is Ireland's leading energy company. It is a statutory corporation in the Republic of Ireland and is 95 per cent owned by the Government of Ireland, with the remaining shares held by an employee share option trust. ESB is a vertically-integrated utility. In addition to generation, ESB is responsible for the management and operations of the electricity distribution network in the Republic of Ireland. It also owns the transmission system.

Sponsor of the draw prize:
	COLT is the leading provider of high bandwidth voice, data and advanced telecommunication solutions to business and government customers in Europe. We operate advanced metropolitan area networks in all the major business centres in Europe, linked by our fully owned and managed IP network, the COLT EuroLAN .

On the exhibition area:
	The Higher Education Authority is the planning and development body for higher education in Ireland. It was set up on an ad hoc basis in 1968, and was given statutory powers in the Higher Education Authority Act 1971. The HEA has wide advisory powers throughout the whole of the third-level education sector. In addition it is the funding authority for the universities and a number of designated institutions.

	DANTE (Delivering Advanced Network Technology across Europe) was set up by the national research and education networks (NRENs) in Europe to provide an operational centre to run network services for its members. DANTE has been the lead partner, along with its member NRENs, in a succession of leading edge pan-European networks. The most recent implementation of this service is Géant, widely acclaimed as a ground-breaking achievement in multi-national, multi-gigabit internetworking. DANTE also provides support for research and development projects on Géant, and also provides a number of ancillary networking services.

	The first Grid Virtual Organization (VO) in Ireland is for Grid-enabled Computational Physics of Natural Phenomena, alternatively known as CosmoGrid. This VO is led by DIAS (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies). The other partners are DCU, NUIG, UCD, HEAnet, Met Eireann, Armagh Observatory, and Grid-Ireland (represented by TCD, UCC and NUIG). Here is an outline of the original proposal.

	Esat BT is a wholly owned subsidiary of BT plc. Esat BT is a fully integrated part of BTs international broadband network business, focused primarily on providing services and solutions to multi-site corporates. Esat BT also operates in the residential home phone and Internet markets.

	Expertiseireland.com is the gateway to the island's knowledge base - the most advanced on-line portal of its kind in Europe. It brings together innovators and those at the forefront of developing the knowledge economy, be they from a business or academic background.

	Digital Communications Management Group Ltd - "experts in communications" are the leading provider of telephone systems and Internetworking products covering both LAN and WAN and providing services up from SOHO applications right up to Carrier Class. They employ over 50 people in locations Dublin, Cork, Belfast and London. The company has enjoyed substantial growth year on year since it's inception in 1978. Corporate clients include Greencore, Offices of the Houses of Oireachtás, Law Society, A & L Goodbody, Transware, Fyffes, Irish Rail, Mayo County Council, Mater Private Hospital, Internet Ireland, AOL, Oracle, Kingspan and Microsoft to name but a few.

	PlanNet21 Communications is a System Integration company based in Ireland with offices in Dublin, Cork, Belfast and Galway. The company implements network solutions in the areas of LANs, WANs, IP Telephony, Wireless LAN, Security, Storage Area Networks (SAN), and Video Conferencing. PlanNet21 has formed strategic technology partnerships with leading network equipment suppliers, including Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Extreme Networks, Nortel Networks, 3Com, Check Point, Compaq, IBM, Polycom, and Microsoft. Thus PlanNet21 is capable of delivering solutions with the highest level of quality, performance and support.
	BSS has over 18 years experience in delivering a complete IT & Service solution in the Republic & Northern Ireland Markets. The management objective is to provide services in a manner which conforms to the specified requirements of the Company, its suppliers and its customers. Over the years BSS have developed relations with 5 major Business Partners, each in there own right a giant in the industry, and we have become Hardware / Business Partners for: MICROSOFT TOSHIBA INFORMATION SYSTEMS HP / COMPAQ COMPUTER SYSTEMS APC BROTHER INTERNATIONAL BSS have always been authorised Hardware Resellers for "Toshiba Information Systems, Hewlett Packard / Compaq Computer Products, APC Uninterruptible Power Supplies & Fully Integrated Network Solutions.
	CHEST IRELAND is an initiative of the Higher Education Authority CHEST IRELAND'S objectives are to obtain good quality commercial software and datasets and to facilitate access to premier data services, for the Higher Education Community at low prices and attractive license terms.