Readers & Circulation Converge! Network Digest reaches the top tier of the networking industry, the people who are determining the future of networking worldwide.  Our readers make up a "who's who" list of the most influential leaders in the networking industry. They are serious, high level, and influential people. They are located in more than 80 countries at a variety of organizations, including the major carriers, network equipment suppliers, venture capital firms, investment banks, research labs, government organizations, enterprise IT groups, and the media. Organizations Where You Can Find Our Readers Reader Profile Circulation Data Organizations Our readers are top executives, network planners, and engineers at organizations that include: Service Providers Arab Telecom Asia Multimedia Co. Ltd. Asia Netcom AT&T AT&T Broadband AT&T Canada AT&T Wireless Bell Canada BellSouth Broadwing BT BT Cellnet BT North America Cable & Wireless chello broadband China Netcom Corp. China Telecom Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd. Cincinnati Bell Telephone Citizens Communications Comcast Covad Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom, T-Nova North America Dominion Telecom Dynegy Connect Equant Equinix Florida Power & Light France Telecom Frontier Telecom Gaohong Telecom Global Crossing HFCL India Hungarian Telco Co. Iceland Telecom indacom (Belgium) Intelsat Internet2 Kisan Telecom (Korea) KPN International Level 3 Communications Louis Dreyfus Communication Nera Telecom (Singapore) Nextel International ntl (UK) NTT NTT East NTT West NTT/Verio OnFiber Communications Pakistan Telecommunications Portugal Telecom Qwest Communications SBC Communications Slovak Telecom Sonera (Finland) Sprint STC Saudi Telecom Swisscom Syrian Telecom Telecom Argentina Télécom Développement Telecom Eireann Telecom Italia Lab Telecom New Zealand Telefónica CTC Chile Telefónica de Espana Teleglobe Telekom Serbia Telenor (Norway) Telespazio (Italy) TELEWEST (UK) Telia (Sweden) Telkom Kenya Telkom South Africa Telefonos de Mexico Time Warner Telecom Tunisie Telecom UUNET Verizon Communications Verizon Wireless Williams Communications WorldCom XO Communications Yipes Communications Zhongxing Telecom System Vendors 3Com ADC AFC Agere Systems Agilent Technologies Alcatel AMCC Analog Devices Avaya Boeing Broadcom Caspian Networks CIENA Corporation Cisco Systems Corning Cypress Semiconductor Ericsson Extreme Networks Flarion Technologies Foundry Networks Fujitsu Hewlett Packard Hitachi Huawei Technologies IBM Infineon Technologies Intel Ixia JDS Uniphase Juniper Networks Laurel Networks Lockheed Martin LSI Logic Lucent Technologies Marconi Communications Mitel Networks Motorola National Semiconductor NEC Corporation net.com Nokia Nortel Networks Northrop Grumman Philips Pirelli PMC-Sierra Procket Networks Redback Networks Riverstone Networks Samsung SIEMENS Sony Ericsson Mobile Spirent Communications Sun Microsystems Sycamore Networks Tellabs Texas Instruments Thomson Toshiba Turin Networks Tyco Submarine Systems Vitesse Semiconductor Investment Banks and Venture Capital Firms Apax Partners Battery Ventures Bessemer Venture Partners Broadview Capital Partners Credit Suisse First Boston Crescendo Ventures Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown Draper Fisher Jurvetson Goldman, Sachs & Co. JPMorgan  H&Q Lehman Brothers McQuillan Ventures  Merrill Lynch Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Putnam Investments Salomon Smith Barney  Sequoia Capital  TeleSoft Partners UBS Warburg Government, Research, Standards, and other Organizations Andersen Consulting ATM Forum Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications CANARIE Current Analysis DARPA Defense Info. Systems Dell'Oro Group Department of Defense DSL Forum ETRI (Electronics & Telecom Research Institute,  Korea) Forrester Research Gartner Group  Harvard University Korea Electronics Technology Institute McDonalds Corporation McKinsey & Company Metro Ethernet Forum Microsoft Corporation Ministry of Industry China Ministry of Posts & Telecom,  China Multiservice Switchng Forum NASA National Science Foundation Naval Surface Warfare Center Nestle Office Depot Reuters RHK Technologic Partners Telcordia Technologies TeleChoice, Inc. The Walt Disney Company University of California US Army US Navy US Air Force WalMart Yankee Group Reader Profile Quality information yields quality readership Converge! Network Digest reaches the top tier of the networking industry From the start in 1994, we have targeted the most influential people in all aspects of the networking industry: at the carriers, equipment providers, investment firms, research and analysts groups, standards organizations Read by the architects of next generation networks; the people who are determining the future of networking worldwide Subscribers are willing to pay $500 - 3,500 per year because they value the information we provide Our readers play influential roles in the networking industry Service Provider network planners and executives making networking architecture and purchasing decisions Engineers designing next generation systems and components Investors and financial analysts who are evaluating and funding networking companies Marketers and product managers who track industry developments Our readers work at a wide variety of organizations Over 2,000 organizations Major carriers, PTTs, ISPs, ASPs, IXCs, RBOCs, and CLECs Network equipment suppliers, resellers and integrators Research labs Standards and regulatory groups Enterprises managing advanced IT needs  Government and the military Venture capital firms and investment banks  Our readers are located all around the globe 84 Countries 30% of readers are outside of the United States Top countries outside of the US are: Canada, United Kingdom, Japan, Israel, Korea, China, and Germany Circulation Data Newsletter Circulation Daily e-mail newsletter circulation (Our best estimate*. Read below to find out why we do not have an exact figure.) 40,000 Weekly e-mail newsletter circulation (Our best estimate*. Read below to find out why we do not have an exact figure.) 3,000 Daily newsletter annual subscription rates (for individual subscriber through unlimited corporate site license) $500 - $3,500 Organizations at which the Converge! Network Digest e-mail newsletter is read 2,500 * Most of our readers subscribe to our service through corporate site licenses and have redistribution rights of the newsletter via corporate broadcast lists (e.g. convergenews@company.com) or Intranets. As a result, we have a very good estimate of our total newsletter readers but cannot determine an exact figure since our subscribing companies do much of the distribution themselves.  We do have specific information on the number of companies that receive the newsletters and the countries they are in, as show below.   Web Usage Data   Web site page views, monthly (Nov 2007) 1,295,916 Web site unique visitors, monthly (Nov 2007) 86,669     Reader Demographics   Readers by Industry Segment 25% -- Service Providers 60% -- System & Component Vendors 15% -- Government, Finance, Analysts, Enterprise, Other Percentage of readers in the United States 55% Countries in which Converge! Network Digest is read 84 Top countries where Converge! Network Digest is read outside of the United States   Canada, United Kingdom, Japan, Israel, Korea, China, Germany We are proud of these figures. However, we believe that the quality of our readers is even more impressive than their numbers. Converge! Network Digest reaches the most influential people and companies in the networking industry.