Event News: VON First Impressions

I arrived at VON Fall in Boston this morning, and thought I'd share my initial impressions of the event so far.

The exhibit floor looks quite good, with 350 or so booths and decent traffic. The vendors seem pumped and ready for an expected 9,000 attendees over the course of the week. Other numbers being bandied about include 175 registered press and analysts, and 325 speakers on the conference roster.

I sat in on the opening keynote featuring Jeff Pulver and Ted Leonsis, Vice Chairman of AOL and President of AOL Audience. Most of the discussion was around video over IP as the next big industry disruptor, and I have to agree that the Internet is indeed ready for video primetime. An important  distinction was made between IPTV and video over IP -- IPTV is defined as the telcos foray into video services as the means to counter the cable MSOs, and as such is still a walled garden just like the cable operators offerings.

Video over IP, on the other hand, is really video running over the Internet as an application, and what IP did for voice it will also do for video in terms of freeing video from the constraints of the walled gardens of the established service providers and establishing the concept of video as an application where anything is possible.

I did detect a bit of boredom on Jeff's part with respect to VoIP -- he seems to be tiring of the technology and clearly finds Video over IP a more compelling area right now.

Tags: aol, iptv, jeff pulver, ted leonsis, video over ip, von

Search Technorati: aol, iptv, jeff pulver, ted leonsis, video over ip, von

Related Entries
• Off to VON Tomorrow - Mar 19, 2007
• A Ten-To-Watch List - Dec 11, 2006
• One Million IPTV Users In China Next Year - Dec 11, 2006
• New Advertising Revenue Opportunities of IPTV - Nov 30, 2006
• Telecom Industry on Target to Reach $1.3 Trillion In Revenue - Nov 21, 2006
• Blip.tv Puts on a New Face and Adds MySpace.com Cross Posting Feature - Oct 24, 2006
• Wanted: Expert in IP Video/TV Signal Integration Architecture - Oct 23, 2006
• EQO Extends IM & Social Nets to Mobile Phones - Oct 05, 2006
• ClearSight Helps Analyze IPTV Performance - Sep 22, 2006
• New Low-Cost, High-Def IPTV Package - Sep 11, 2006

Email Author Feedback

• VoIP » Event News: VON First Impressions

Related Entries
• Off to VON Tomorrow - Mar 19, 2007
• A Ten-To-Watch List - Dec 11, 2006
• One Million IPTV Users In China Next Year - Dec 11, 2006
• New Advertising Revenue Opportunities of IPTV - Nov 30, 2006
• Telecom Industry on Target to Reach $1.3 Trillion In Revenue - Nov 21, 2006
• Blip.tv Puts on a New Face and Adds MySpace.com Cross Posting Feature - Oct 24, 2006
• Wanted: Expert in IP Video/TV Signal Integration Architecture - Oct 23, 2006
• EQO Extends IM & Social Nets to Mobile Phones - Oct 05, 2006
• ClearSight Helps Analyze IPTV Performance - Sep 22, 2006
• New Low-Cost, High-Def IPTV Package - Sep 11, 2006

TechnoratiDel.icio.usSlashdotDiggFurlSpurl

Listed below are links to sites that reference Event News: VON First Impressions:

Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL for Event News: VON First Impressions:
http://blog.tmcnet.com/mt3/t.fcgi/26882

» VON = Voice on the Net or Video on the Net? from VoIP & Gadgets Blog
I didn't attend VON, so I cannot attest to the traffic numbers or how the "buzz" was at the show just a few short weeks ago. However, I found some interesting posts from bloggers and websites that discussed the VON... [More]

Tracked on September 27, 2006 10:49 AM

Comments to Event News: VON First Impressions

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

Name:

Email Address:

URL:

Remember info? Notify me of new comments?

Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style)