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Over the last three decades, TeleGeography's platform of authoritative data sets and objective analysis have provided clear guidance to thousands of clients in over 100 countries. Our communications industry research delivers time-sensitive statistics and insight on hundreds of markets and thousands of service providers.

TeleGeography is a division of PriMetrica, Inc. The company offers individual and enterprise subscriptions to online databases and reports on subjects ranging from wireless carrier competition to global Internet backbone traffic. In addition, the company's team of experienced consultants can supply customized market analysis, strategic advice, and support services to clients anywhere in the world.

Renesys® offers the industry's first Internet monitoring and analysis solution that provides Internet intelligence for competitive advantage.

The company gives service providers, government agencies and global 2000 organizations, a real-time view into the global Internet as it affects their business. Only with Renesys can customers have a new level of speed and agility in managing the Internet climate outside the four walls of the organization, resulting in minimal downtime between customers, partners and other stakeholders.

Renesys Corporation's patent pending technology for monitoring global Internet routing is based on five years of pioneering research in the intricacies of global Internet routing and protocols. Renesys Corporation was founded in 2000 and is a privately held company with offices in Manchester, NH, Hanover, NH and Washington, DC.

Alinean - Aligning IT Investment Strategies with Business Value

Alinean was founded in 2001 to develop IT focused ROI and TCO value analysis and management tools for the end user and IT Supplier communities. Alinean is the leading developer of IT valuation methodologies and software tools to measure and quantify the value of IT investments. The Alinean ROI AnalystT value analysis tool is implemented to help improve the communication of IT value (ROI and TCO) between technical and economic stakeholders. The Alinean team originally pioneered the concept of interactive ROI and TCO software in 1994, developing over 300 award-winning tools for companies such as Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and SAP. As a result, Alinean ended up creating the leading software standard for CIO budgeting, planning and ROI/TCO benchmarking. Over the last four years, the Alinean team has recognized the changing economic climate and renewed need for IT cost justification, and as a result has continuously looked to strengthen the bridge between IT and financial decision makers. The Alinean ROI and TCO tools analyze and cost-justify virtually all IT solutions, including Application Integration, Asset Management, Business Intelligence, Collaboration Platforms, Content and Document Management, CRM, Database Management, Data Center Management, ERP, Managed Services, Mobility, Office Automation, Operating Systems, Portfolio Management, Security, Server Consolidations, Storage Migrations, SCM, SRM, Systems Management, Telecommunications/VoIP, Unified Messaging, and Wireless Applications.