Homepage: www.birdstep.com

Birdstep Technology ASA, Oslo, Norway is a SME, which today counts about 60 employees. Birdstep is an R&D organization, where most employees are engineers and scientists with MSc or PhD degrees in Computer Science. The company develops technology within three families of products; database managers, wireless access software and Mobile IP solutions. The technology developed in Birdstep is based on more than 10 years of university research and industrial experience by key technical personnel in the organization, and the company is cooperating with leading European, Asian and US telecom operators, as well as equipment manufactures such as Cisco, Nortel, Lucent, Motorola and Ericsson. 
Birdstep will provide the state-of-the-art software products needed to realise parts of the MADAM concept:

• RDM Mobile and RDM Mobile XML database
• Software for personalized access services based on the IP zone Nomadic Portal, IP Zone servers and IP zone Billing gateways
• Mobile IP with seamless roaming for wireless users over various access networks, that provides secure roaming between heterogenous access networks

Birdstep will participate in enhancing these products to adapt to the requirements defined in MADAM and will also integrate experimental functionalities developed by other partners into the MADAM platform.
Birdstep will integrate concepts developed through the work in MADAM into their software products, and offer these products to operators, enterprises and system integrators.