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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 [...]

AstriCon 2010 coming to D.C. – Two cents on traveling

Digium (www.digium.com) has formally announced dates and places for AstriCon 2010. (www.astricon.net).

This year’s event will take place at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, just outside of Washington D.C., on October 26-28, 2010. 

FYIs on getting to the Gaylord from local hubs

Please note travelers take my advice at their own risk – my day [...]

Keynote Pictures from Astricon 2009 – Thursday, October 15, 2009

Glendale, AZ & Washington DC – Pictures from Thursday’s keynotes at AstriCon 2009.

IBM CTO Mike Smith talks all about Digium’s role as an ISV on IBM’s Smart Cube program.  Companies with Smart Cube can pull down Asterisk from IBM’s online  Smart Business marketplace.

Digium CEO Danny Windham recapping 2009 in terms of challenges and opportunities.  Windham [...]

Keynote pictures from AstriCon 2009 – Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Glendale, AZ & Washington DC – Pictures from AstriCon 2009 on Wednesday October 14, 2009.

Keynote audience at AstriCon 2009

It was a full ballroom for both days of keynotes.

Allworx founder Jeff Szczepanski at AstriCon 2009

You run into a lot of interesting people in the hallways of AstriCon — like the founder of Allworx.

Google [...]

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 [...]

HD voice news from AstriCon via HDConnectNow

You’ll find three (3) pieces about HD voice from AstriCon over at the HD Connect Now website (www.hdconnectnow.org)–

AstriCon 2009: It is all HD voice (handsets)
AstriCon 2009 – Dialogic talks HD voice media server
From AstriCon: Rumors of AT&T running HD voice in San Antonio

Bottom line: You have to look REALLY hard to find a VoIP handset [...]

AstriCon – What I'm doing there…

I’m going to be at Digium’s AstriCon conference, the Asterisk developer’s conference, on October 13-15 in Glendale, AZ.

Digium head hoo-hoo, er Community development guy John Todd has asked me to be a Master of Ceremonies (MC) for two of the AstriCon tracks on Wednesday and Thursday. Which means I get to herd cats, er developers [...]

AstriCon keynotes – Ain't that interesting!

Every year for the past couple of years, the folks at Digium have rolled out a nice little surprise at the annual AstriCon event connected to the keynote speakers.  Two years ago, Digium announced it had purchased Switchvox (Hello Tristian!).  Last year, Skype and Digium announced a working relationship and a beta of a channel [...]

Fall 2009 events – Where I'll be

So far, my fall dance card looks like this–

IT EXPO West 2009, Los Angeles Convention Center, September 1-2

I’ll be moderating for one panel on Tuesday and taking briefings in the TMC press room on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 1 & 2.

HD Communications Summit, Round II, September 15-16, 2009,New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street, New [...]

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