Back at TMC HQ they are having a pizza lunch and dressing up for a costume party/best costume contest. I asked for pictures and this is what they sent. I am told the scary looking guy alone is Tom Keating.
Happy Early Halloween to you.
Back at TMC HQ they are having a pizza lunch and dressing up for a costume party/best costume contest. I asked for pictures and this is what they sent. I am told the scary looking guy alone is Tom Keating.
Happy Early Halloween to you.
I really excited to speak at the Illinois Institute of Technology Rice Campus for the VoIP Conference and Expo 2009. This will be my first time to this event and interestingly the third time in recent weeks in which I am in Chicago instead of Vegas for a show. Maybe the city didn't get the Olympics but they certainly seem to have gotten all the shows - WiMAX World, Supercomm and now this event.
Getting back to my talk - I am moderating a Keynote Panel titled: Are the "Bells" ringing for Carrier VoIP? And my panelists include Carl Ford, Crossfire Media; Anne Lee, ALU; Gaston Ormazabal, Verizon and Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University at 4:00 pm this Thursday 10/29/2009. I hope to see you there. Here is the schedule with my panel in yellow at the bottom.
Here is the website for details.
Day 1 Wednesday October 28 |
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Room 163 |
Room 166 |
Room 103 |
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7:30 to 8:30 AM Registration - Breakfast - Exhibit Booths |
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| 8:30 to 8:50 | Conference Greetings: Carol Davids, IIT: Bridging the Islands of VoIP Room 166 |
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| 9:00 to 10:30 AM | Over the Top VoIP Co-chairs: Warren Bent, Maureen Stillman |
E911 VoIP Emergency Services Miniconference Co-Chairs: Chuck Hunnicutt, Barbara Kemp |
VoIP in the Enterprise Co-chairs: Maureen Stillman, Anup Manchanda |
| 9:00 to 9:45 AM Cloud Telephony Irv Shapiro, IfByPhone |
9:00 to 9:30AM Bridging the Islands for Emergency Service Jeff Robertson, Principal, Robertson and Associates |
9:00 - 9:30 AM Unifying Communications: A 360-Degree Approach Speaker:Matt McGillen, Microsoft |
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| 9:45 to 10:30 AM The Rise of Telecom Development Frameworks Greg Bond and Eric Cheung, AT&T |
9:30 to 10:00 AM The i3 specifications - Blueprint for Bridging Brian Rosen, NENA |
9:30 to 10:00 AM Implementing Unified Communications Solutions Huzefa Mustaly, Tellabs |
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| 10:00 to 10:30 AM Title: NG911 Interoperability Testing Bill Mertka, RedSky |
10:00 to 10:30 AM SIP Trunking - Ready for Prime Time Joel Maloff, BandTel |
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10:30 to 11:00 AM Break / Exhibitor booths |
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| 11:00 to 12:30 PM | Over-the-Top Applications - VoIP2.0 Co-chairs: Warren Bent, Maureen Stillman |
E911 VoIP Emergency Services Miniconference Co-Chairs: Chuck Hunnicutt, Barbara Kemp |
VoIP in the Enterprise Co-chairs: Maureen Stillman, Anup Manchanda |
11:00 to 11:30 AM Emerging 2.0 Communications Jose De Francisco Lopez, Alcatel-Lucent |
11:00 to 11:30AM Telematics John Kimmins, Telcordia |
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11:30 to12:00 AM Deploying VoIP over Wimax Peisong Huang, Motorola |
11:30 to 12:00 AM i3 - The US DOT Trial Chris Norton, TAMU |
11:30 to 12:00 PM SIP Trunking Service Interoperability Update Bob Blair-Smith, Cbeyond |
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12:00 to12:30 PM Title: TBA Brian West, FreeSWITCH |
12:00 to 12:30 PM i3 - Demonstrations Chris Norton, TAMU |
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12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch |
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| 1:30 to 2:15PM | Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University Scaling up VoIP - Congestion Control for SIP Room 166 |
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| 2:15 to 3:00PM | Jim Argiropoulos: NG911 and the Chicago PSAP First Deputy, Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications Room 166 |
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3:00 to 3:30 PM Break / Exhibitor Booths and City of Chicago's OEMC Unified Command Vehicles - 911 Satellite Trucks |
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| 3:30 to 5:00 PM | VoIP Challenges Chair: Carol Davids |
E911 VoIP Emergency Services Miniconference Co-Chairs: Chuck Hunnicutt, Barbara Kemp |
Bridging SIP communities Co-chairs: Warren Bent, Carol Davids |
3:30 to 4:00 PM Keeping SIP Adaptable: Specifications for the Digital Age Ken Krechmer, SIIT09 |
3:30 to 4:00 PM Location Devices and the LoST Server Mark Grady, InDigital |
3:30 to 4:00 PM Inter-Carrier Wideband Communications John Butz, Neutral Tandem |
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4:00 to 4:30 PM VoIP: Voice Only Instigates Problems Steven Fair, Phybridge |
4:00 to 4:30 PM The Story of the Jackson County, IL PSAPS Pat Lustig, Jackson County Ken Smith, Williamson County 9-1-1 Coordinator |
4:00 to 4:30 PM Building SIP Communities with IMS Brett Brock, Cox Communications |
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4:30to 5:00 PM SIP Flooding Detection Jin Tang, PhD Candidate, IIT |
4:30 to 5:00 PM Designing and Building the City of Chicago's Unified Command System David Beering, Morgan Franklin |
4:30 to 5:00 PM Voice Services through HD Networks Rich Poole , Dialogic |
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| 5:00 to 6:00 PM | Happy Hour Beer, Wine, Hors D'ouevres |
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Day 2 Thursday October 29 |
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Room 163 |
Room 166 |
Room 103 |
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8:00 to 8:30 AM Breakfast and Exhibitors Booths |
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| 8:30 to 10:00 AM | Architectures, Operations and Test Co-Chairs: Dave Staub, Maureen Stillman |
VoIP and NGN Networks Mini-conference Chair: Suresh Borkar |
N11 and VoIP Networks Chair: Rick Jones **Free Webinar to NENA Associates** |
8:30 to 9:00 AM Distributed monitoring of residential and mobile VoIP and IPTV services Alan Clark, Telchemy |
8:30 to 9:15 AM Verizon's Integrated Vision for Next Generation Services and Deployment Gaston Ormazabal, Verizon |
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM The Technical side of N11 Brian Rosen, NENA Long Term Definition Working Group, Neustar |
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9:00 to 9:30 AM NGN Networks - Transitions and operations Manuel Vexler, Huawei |
9:15 to 10:00 AM Convergence! LTE, SAE, and IMS enabling Applications & VoIP Anne Lee, Alcatel-Lucent |
9:15 - 10 AM Policy and Implementation Rick Jones Walt Magnusen |
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9:30 to 10:00 AM The Impact of Various HFC Noise Types on Upstream VoIP Traffic Ayham Al-Banna, Arris |
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10:00 to 10:30 AM Break / Exhibitors booths |
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| 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM | Architectures, Operations and Test Co-chairs:Dave Staub, Maureen Stillman |
VoIP and NGN Networks Mini-conference Chair: Suresh Borkar |
VoIP and Security Co-chairs: Warren Bent, Paul Sand |
10:30 to 11:00 AM The Common Log File (CLF) Format for SIP Vijay Gurbani, Alcatel-Lucent |
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM Panel Discussion: Moderator Ken Zdunek, IIT Speakers: Mario DeRango, Motorola Barlow Keener, Keener Law Group Mike Khalilian, IMS/NGN Forum |
10:30 to 11:30 AM Panel Discussion: The Practical Side of VoIP Security Moderator: Paul Sand, Salare Security Speakers: Tom Grill, Verisign Paul Salva, HSBC Peter Thermos, Palindrome Carl Herberger, IPevolve |
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11:00 to 11:30 AM Connecting the SIP Islands: The SIPForum Experience Richard Shockey, SIPForum |
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11:30 to 12:00 Noon Leveraging a VoIP Infrastructure - Going beyond the Dial-Tone Bill Wolfe, Cisco |
11:30 to 12:00 Noon Authenticated Identities within SIP Call Control: Interoperability Test Results John Nix, InCharge Systems |
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12:00 to 1:00 PM Lunch / Exhibitor booths |
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| 1:00 to 2:00 PM | Keynote Address: Henry Sinnreich, Adobe Applications on the Web vs. Network Application Protocols: RIA and SIP Room 166 |
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2:00 to 2:30PM Break / Exhibitor booths |
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| 2:30 to 4:00 PM | Architectures, Operations and Test Chair: David Staub |
VoIP and NGN Networks Mini-conference 4G and VoIP Chair: Carl Ford, IMHO |
VoIP and Security Co-chairs: Warren Bent, Paul Sand |
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Holistic Testing of IMS Networks: SIP and Diameter Thomas Maufer, Mu Dynamics |
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM 4G and Voice - When worlds divide Carl Ford, IMHO |
2:30 to 3:00 PM VoIP-UC Security - Best Practices Ravi Varanasi, Sipera |
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3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Voice Quality Enhancements for VoIP Networks Rafid Sukkar, Tellabs |
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM 4G Security - The truth is out there Ed Guy, Truphone |
3:00 to 3:30 PM Mobile Secure and Private Communications Thomas Gluzinski, IDRank Security |
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3:30 PM - 4:00 PM SMS over LTE - Integrating Old and New Yigang Cai, Alcatel-Lucent |
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM E-commerce, VoIP and NGN TMCNet |
3:30 to 4:00 PM Automated tools to support VoIP Networks Paul Sand, Salare Security |
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| 4:00 to 5:00 PM | Keynote Panel: Are the "Bells" ringing for Carrier VoIP? Moderator: Rich Tehrani, TMCNet Panelists include: Carl Ford, IMHO; Anne Lee, ALU; Gaston Ormazabal, Verizon; Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University |
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| 5:00 to 6:00 PM | Happy Hour - Drawing - Prizes Beer, Wine, Hors D'ouevres |
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I wanted to alert my readers to some exciting news happening at TMC. As you likely know TMC is among a handful of media companies growing at a time when the media landscape is in dramatic decline. As you might imagine this growth is primarily online. Over the last decade and especially in the last few years we have focused on building online communities (Channels and GOCs) for customers who sponsor these areas as they rapidly attract focused decision-makers from around the world.
The visitors who come to these communities benefit from a massive amount of free content which helps them make informed purchasing decisions. For example people looking for products in Call Recording, Smart Data Centers, IP communications, HD Voice, Fixed Mobile Convergence or Next Generation Communications can come to the respective communities focused on these topics and have access to hundreds and in most cases thousands of TMC written articles detailing the news in their specific area of interest. Our business model is straightforward; aggregate massive amounts of focused and quality content using custom-built content targeting technology - make it relevant and pertinent so as to attract the right readers who need this information as they research the products and services they are looking to buy.
For our sponsors, these communities allow them to rank high organically on search engines to get their message out to a focused audience while simultaneously being able to measure the traffic to ensure they can justify their spend to the sales and executive management teams.
Basically, this suite of communities replicates the trade show model online and just like a trade show that attracts more attendees as the exhibitor base grows; the 120 monthly sponsored communities on TMCnet attract a massive audience which in turn attracts more sponsors.
In short, I am very confident we can continue to provide free quality content in all the areas we enter. Meaning while other media companies are beginning to charge for their once free content and many others are reducing their editorial teams, TMC is adding to its editorial, sales and marketing teams as we have a model which works exceptionally well for our readers and sponsors.
We are growing our team as we enter a slew of new markets with our business model of providing laser-focused content - backed by over a decade of proprietary content targeting technology; essentially building targeted online communities which rank high on search engines as they attract large amounts of focused traffic.
Here is my quote from a press release we put out today mentioning the hire of a brand new position - VP of Business Development. Matt Weiner is filling this position and his background of working for Penton and Yahoo! make him a good fit for the position."Over the last decade, TMC has invested in the technology and people necessary to build a next-generation media company which creates communities online, in-print and in-person," Tehrani continued. "By providing our audience with top quality news, training and information, we have attracted global purchasing decision-makers to our communities. As TMC's global communities have increased in size and quality, they have attracted hundreds of advertisers and sponsors who receive regular measurable results for their marketing and SEO budgets. Our future strategy involves continuing to build communities which draw large amounts of targeted traffic as we continue to connect buyers and sellers -- and adding Matt to the team is an integral element of that strategy."
Aside from Matt, we have added a number of other positions and just as importantly we continue to ink partnership after new partnership as we enter new spaces where we leverage our community building engine in combination with the thought leadership of individuals and/or corporations in new markets.
Thank you for continuing to support our rapid growth - thanks to our readers and existing and news sponsors - we look forward to helping all of your companies grow with ours.
I am here in Chicago for Supercomm 2009 where I have numerous video interviews and meetings set up. I will be attending a few receptions and the first one is this evening in celebration of Genband's 10-year anniversary. We have a booth at the show where we will be filming live interviews with industry executives and thought leaders and we are excited that TMC's Paula Bernier will be participating in the conference portion of the event. Genband is participating on the panel she will be moderating and will be sending out a press release which I feel objectively describes the session. Hopefully you will get a chance to stop by and see Paula in action.
Here is a photo of Supercomm 2009 Chicago exhibit hall and the release:![]()
GENBAND to Participate in Transcoding Panel with Verizon, Nokia Siemens Networks at SUPERCOMM 2009
Conference session explores transcoding requirements, challenges, insight for voice and multimedia interplay
Plano, TX, October 19, 2009 - GENBAND Inc., a market-leading developer of next-generation IP infrastructure solutions, today announced it will join with Verizon Communications Inc., and Nokia Siemens Networks for SUPERCOMM 2009's programming session: The Transcoding Path to IP Network Interoperability. Taking place on Wednesday, Oct. 21 from 3:10 p.m. - 3:55 p.m. in room W183b, the panel will discuss interworking complexities at network borders and how the industry is addressing these challenges through transcoding.
"As challenges arise from managing and routing VoIP and multimedia sessions, service providers are increasingly using transcoding to address interconnections at network borders," said Paula Bernier, Executive Editor at TMC and moderator of the session. "I look forward to discussing this timely topic, including both the service provider and equipment manufacturer perspectives as they supply and deploy transcoding solutions across IP networks. We will discuss successes and challenges of implementation as well as the roadmap for transcoding and its relationship to trends such as IMS and FMC."
Ms. Bernier will moderate a panel comprised of Tim Dwight, Principal Member of Technical Staff in Verizon's Core Network Technology organization; Al Young, Account Director at Nokia Siemens Networks; and Andrew Bender, Vice President of Technology at GENBAND.
SUPERCOMM 2009's conference program focuses on broadband solutions, in the form of real-world examples and case studies that feature the users of technologies and services as presenters, along with the service providers implementing the technologies in their networks and deploying the applications those technologies enable.
The Transcoding Path to IP Network Interoperability session will explore the requirements for transcoding and the strategies to resolve challenges that arise from combining networks with varying voice and multimedia traffic types.
Carrier consolidation, the convergence of fixed and mobile networks, and the prevalence of all-IP network architectures are all driving a growing need for transcoding in today's communications networks.
The traditional approach to connecting IP networks uses gateways to convert traffic to a common TDM format, which resolves media compatibility but increases cost and can impair voice quality. GENBAND offers a unique solution that avoids these issues by enabling direct IP-IP transcoding with support for fixed, mobile, and satellite codecs.
Leveraging Ecosystems Eclipses Developing Products
Widgets for TVs, application stores for wireless phones, applets for the connected home and automobiles... The trend is clear as smart ecosystems have emerged on the scene as a new way to generate revenue while locking in customers to specific hardware/software solutions. For many manufacturers such as Avaya, Cisco, RIM, Nokia, Apple and makers of televisions, it is no longer adequate to focus exclusively on the products your company develops. Now you have to figure out how to build a smart ecosystem around your offerings in order to leverage an able and willing (hardware and software) developer community who will evangelize your platform and develop long-tail applications, services and add-ons which boost the value of your ecosystem.
In order to help educate the emerging smart ecosystem community, TMC has partnered with Crossfire Media and distinguished college professor Mary Cronin PhD to launch a smart ecosystem portal containing news, thought leadership and analysis called SPEC which stands for Smart Product Ecosystems Connection and located at www.specosys.com.
As you may recall, Crossfire Media is home to Carl Ford and together we have already partnered to build online and live communities (4GWE and M2M Summit) in the 4G and M2M spaces.
This partnership also includes Mary Cronin, a professor in the Information Systems Department of Boston College's Carroll School of Management. Mary is a true thought leader in the space and you can expect to hear her prescient thoughts on how ecosystems will take root and evolve. Her first article is titled Five Rules for Smart Product Ecosystems.
The coverage areas will extend into a variety of industries and for now they include Telecom & Mobile; Health & Medical; Automotive & Telematics; Home Automation and Connected Home Entertainment Devices; Energy Monitoring and Personal Energy Management Solutions. We are open to adding new areas so drop us a line with suggestions.
It is evident that as time goes on, companies in all industries will be looking to tie their products and services into more and more ecosystems. They will either develop their own and/or leverage others on the market. In order to stay up to date on the investment, partnering and other opportunities ahead, be sure to bookmark the new SPEC smart ecosystem site and check back often.
At ITEXPO West 2009 in Los Angeles, I had a chance to sit down with the founders of inVox, the company behind a new easy-to-use cloud-based IVR system which allows rapid application development. Here is a video of my interview with company execs.
Thank you all - sponsors, analysts, members of the press, keynoters, partners, attendees, speakers, friends, colleagues and the TMC team. ITEXPO West 2009 was one of the best events TMC has ever put on thanks to your support.
I will be collecting my thoughts for a while and will have more to report soon.
He is worth billions and he still works as hard as anyone I know. He travels the world and closes business. He actually said selling things turns him on. It shows - the companies he has started are some of the most successful around. I hope to have a fraction of his energy at his age.
Based upon the crowd here at his address and the focus by audience members on every word Terry is saying, it seems we picked a great keynoter for this event. Here is a clip of Terry speaking and the crowd shot of who was there.
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