The Global VSAT Forum is an association of key companies involved in the business of delivering advanced digital fixed satellite systems and services to consumers, and commercial and government enterprises worldwide. The Forum is independent and non-profit and has a global remit. It is also non-partisan - any companies or organisations with an interest in the VSAT industry are encouraged to join. The Global VSAT Forum consists of over 130 members from 40 different countries in every major region of the world and from every sector of the industry. The Global VSAT Forum, with headquarters in London, also works closely with a network of local representatives from affiliate organisations who act as correspondents and work with the Forum to facilitate the provision of VSAT-based communications solutions throughout their country or region.

SALT Forum, a group of companies with a shared goal of accelerating the use of speech technologies in multimodal and telephony systems, today announced that it has revised its membership structure and organizing principles in response to strong interest from numerous existing and potential members. Currently representing over 70 technology leaders, the Forum is best known as the originator of the Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) 1.0 specification now under consideration within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

United States Telecom Association (USTA) is the leading broad-based association for the local exchange carrier worldwide. USTA's mission is to promote the general welfare of the telephone industry, to collect and disseminate industry information and to provide a forum for the discussion and resolution of issues of mutual concern. USTelecom also serves as a valued resource to the industry, through events like NXTcomm and informative issue-specific webinars resources like the Telecom Bookstore and Telecom Careers Center and publications such as the USTelecom dailyLead, Communications Crossroads magazine and the members-only policy briefings Crossroads Express and TeleBrief.

As over 20 million users in Korea alone at present are increasingly accessing the Internet, it is common to see the Internet used in our daily life for diverse purposes, including information exchange and electronic transactions. Above all, security and reliability must be achieved first for exchanging a variety of information sources and performing business transactions over the Internet. As we all know, however, the Internet is vulnerable to electronic attacks such as hacking, viruses, the leak of personal information, etc. The effective response to these nuisances is the key policy task for achieving the Internet-based knowledge and information society. The Korea Information Security Agency (KISA) was established in 1996 to create a safe, reliable information distribution climate by reacting effectively to a variety of electronic infringement and intrusion acts. KISA has devoted itself to enhancing the security and reliability of electronic transactions by developing and supplying.

Jabber Software Foundation is an open XML protocol for the real-time exchange of messages and presence between any two points on the Internet. The first application of Jabber technology is an asynchronous, extensible instant messaging platform, and an IM network that offers functionality similar to legacy IM systems such as AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo.