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Metaswitch Forum rescheduled – Sept 21-25, Orlando, FL

The Metaswitch (www.metaswitch.com) Forum event is a go again!  The conference has been rescheduled for September 21-25, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, at the Rosen Shingle Creek Convention Center.

Followers of this blog may recall that the event was originally scheduled for mid-May at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, TN, but flooding in Nashville swamped – literally, [...]

Metaswitch Forum flooded out

While no official word from either Metaswitch (www.metaswitch.com) or its PR firm has come out, it is likely that the Metaswitch Forum event scheduled to be held from May 17-20, 2010 in Nashville Tennessee has been called for rain. Lots of it. As in feet. As in “The Flood of 2010.”

A source outside of Metaswitch [...]

CEA talks telecom pavilion at 2011 CES

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) hopes to get more telecom vendors to the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) (www.cesweb.org) in January through a dedicated telecom pavilion this January.

“Even three to four years ago, the presence of broadband at CES was limited,” said CEA Senior VP of Industry Affairs Jason Oxman. “Now it’s not about the [...]

SIP Forum’s SIPit event hits the road to Europe

The SIP Forum (www.sipforum.org) will be holding its latest interoperability testing event in Kista, Sweden on May 17-21, 2010.

Hosted by Edvina and TANDBERG and sponsored by Intertex, Ingate, se, and the IPv6 Forum as an association sponsor, the five day event will conduct live, frael-world IP network testing.

Change in May travel plans

Since the May 12 HD Communications Summit West event has been canceled, I’ll be spending more time at The Cable Show in Los Angeles.

Right now, it looks like I’ll still be flying out on May 10 to Los Angeles. I’ll be in-city from Monday afternoon through Wednesday redeye (May 12) home, is most likely the [...]

May travel – The Cable Show, HD Comms West, Metaswitch Forum

It’s going to be a busy travel month in May, with destinations including Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and Nashville.

On May 10, I fly out to Los Angeles for The Cable Show. I’ll be in-city from Monday afternoon through Tuesday evening, including on the floor of The Cable Show on Tuesday from about 3-6 PM. 

May [...]

VoiceCon renames to Enterprise Connect

Orlando, Florida – UBM TechWeb has/is renaming its VoiceCon conference to Enteprise Connect. If you’re into marketing speak, the new tagline is “Communications Transforming Business.”

The name change officially takes place at the close of VoiceCon Orlando 2010 this week and will be rolled through the entire portfolio of VoiceCon-branded events, including eNews and webinar [...]

2010: All IP communication roads through the Gaylords?

COMPTEL PLUS 2010 – If you haven’t been to a Gaylord Hotel and Conference center yet, it is likely you will be for some sort of IP communications show this year.

Already, COMPTEL PLUS is winding up at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville. Next week, VoiceCon Orlando will take place at the Gaylord Orlando.

Looking [...]

Rumor mill – SUPERCOMM dead (again)?

Is SUPERCOMM dead again?

I just got a “Deep Throat” style phone call that said just that.  It is not clear if SUPERCOMM will be re-organized/re-named into Yet Another Event, if USTA and TIA have (yet again) split over philosophical differences, or if someone just wants to re-brand the event because they are bored.

If the assertion [...]

Digium's dull (but this is good) AstriCon

Glendale AZ & Washington DC – As Digium celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Asterisk IP telephony platform this week at the AstriCon developer’s conference with cake and funny hats, this year’s keynote presentation by IBM CTO Mike Smith drifted into the mundane and dull — a very good thing.

Smith, brought in to talk about [...]

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