With over 600 research scientists and engineers in 13 Centres of Excellence, DSO National Laboratories is Singapore's foremost applied R&D institution. Our expertise spans a broad spectrum, from aerospace to underwater acoustics and cyberspace. Combined with the flexibility and responsiveness that DSO enjoys as a company, these capabilities enable DSO to create integrated and innovative solutions that meet the unique requirements of our customers, and sharpen their technological edge.

DSO National Laboratories is proud to sponsor the communications equipment as well as the communications support for the expedition.

The communications system that DSO will be sponsoring is an adaptation from another system that has been tested in one of DSO's previous projects. It will enable the Xixabangma Expedition team to have near real-time communications - including video/audio communications - with Singapore.

Said Quek Tong Boon, CEO of DSO, "We are proud that one of our researchers, Dr Robert Goh will be leading the expedition. His dare to dream and dare to do spirit reflect the culture of boldness that we are inculcating amongst our researchers in dreaming and experimenting with new ideas to push the frontiers of technologies. What is more special about this expedition is that this time round, we are also sponsoring his team with a technology that we have tested and adapted from one of our previous projects."

The Fotohub group is a one-stop professional imaging solution provider. We offer services ranging from traditional developing to printing of photographs as well as on-site and on-line digital imaging.

Rapid advances in technology offer up a range of improved techniques in the photo industry. We continually utilise these techniques to introduce a wider range of services to the market. Specialising in digital scanning directly from prints and slides, CD Imaging Pte Ltd (1994) is the choice for many individuals and organisations requiring mass archival of records and images.

35mm Colour Lab (est. 1987) provide customers as well as commercial and corporate clients with excellent photographs and prints. FotoHub.com Pte Ltd (1999), our on-line division, offers a complete range of imaging services and is poised to take the group into the 21st Century.

For nearly four decades, W.L. Gore & Associates has been driven by its vision of Creative Technologies Worldwide.

Our scientific and engineering competencies in configuring one of the most versatile polymers known to man has led to hundreds of solutions in diverse markets and applications.

Gore's team approach to innovation and business has resulted in new polymeric materials and products that benefit mankind and the environment.

From a strong base in electronic products, new proprietary technologies have created opportunities throughout industry, for medical implants, and for high performance fabrics.

The Gore enterprise is built on a firm foundation of experience, knowledge, financial stability, and commitment to world class quality and customer satisfaction.

National Computer Systems Pte Ltd (NCS), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Singapore Telecom Group, is a regional Information Technology (IT) service provider. Since 1981, we have been delivering our mission to create business values and achieve competitive edge for governments and businesses, through the strategic implementation of IT.

We believe in reaching out to the lives around us. Through the years, we extend our support in the community through sponsorship of expeditions like the Singapore Antarctica Team, and of arts and cultural events like Fiddler on The Roof and Broadway, Our Way.

Driven by our appreciation of the Xixabangma expedition team's enduring spirit to conquer, we are providing a dependable 24x7x365 web presence as a gateway between the public and the Xixabangma expedition team. We're making IT happen for you to be closely in touch with the challenge at Xixabangma!

Nera Telecommunications Ltd is a premier solutions provider of satellite communications, microwave radio transmission, IT networking infrastructure and high value added electronic contract manufacturing.

We don't test the bounds of reality. We set them.

Twenty-five years ago, a technology company looked at a product and saw an opportunity. The result was an innovation, a motocross handgrip with a unique orbicular design. The company was Oakley. It began a legacy of seeking out problems and solving them in ways that redefine product categories. This discipline requires an unyielding drive to defy convention and invent a better solution. It is based on three fundamentals: Find opportunity. Solve with technology. Wrap in art.

Today, that passion generates product prototypes in SLA liquid laser tanks. It sculpts in the virtual world of CAD/CAM engineering and renders innovations with 3-D digital mastering. New generations of performance products have been developed at the forefront of technology, Oakley's California research and production facility, where the product of science is art.

Tap into the Power to go Anywhere! Wherever grid access is difficult, consider solar electricity.

With over two decades of experience in solar electricity, Shell Solar is the world's leading manufacturer in the photovoltaic (PV) industry. We produce the highest quality solar cells and modules, and in conjunction with over 130 business partners world-wide, have installed more solar electric generating capacity than any other manufacturer. Our products cover all major photovoltaic technologies from mono- and poly-crystalline Silicon to CIS thin film modules. Our
systems provide reliable, clean and silent power for all applications ranging from off-grid power supply for telecoms, signalling, lighting, water pumping, cathodic protection, rural electrifictation and grid support.

Shell Solar Pte Ltd (formerly Siemens Showa Solar Pte Ltd*) in Singapore is the Asia Pacific regional office for the Shell Solar Group. We have recently installed the largest solar electric rooftop system in Asia Pacific, a 362kWp UPS (uninterruptible power supply) for Technology Park Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. Shell Solar systems provide reliable power for telecommunications, rural health care and solar home systems in over 30 countries of the Asia Pacific region.

* Shell acquired 100% of the Siemens Solar business in April 2002.