I have just completed a whirlwind tour of the Channel Partners show in Las Vegas, Comptel in Dallas and I have had many meetings in the Dallas area and what I have found from the 50+ people I have met with this week is the communications space is doing very very well.<\/p>\n
Everyone at the companies I have met with are cautiously optimistic. The cautious part is because they aren’t sure if we are going into depression 2.0.<\/p>\n
But overall the trend is companies are more likely to reevaluate their equipment and service providers and cut costs by going to companies providing the best value.<\/p>\n
Things are not rosy for all though. If you have massive debt you may not make it through this storm. Nortel is perhaps the most well-known casualty in our space so far.<\/p>\n
Generally, exhibitors at all shows I have gone to this year are very happy and they say the ROI at events has been better than ever. This is great news as I know so many people who couldn’t go to shows because of travel restrictions – yet the shows all have decent to great traffic with high levels of quality.<\/p>\n
Communications is doing very well – despite the economy. I can’t predict where the global markets will go and things could change if some worse case scenarios play out like European banks failing, the euro breaking apart, etc.<\/p>\n
But absence worse case scenarios and I hope global governments are managing these disaster scenarios, we as an industry are perfectly positioned.<\/p>\n
Moreover, the unemployed use even more bandwidth than the employed (no research to back this up, just anecdotal evidence and I have heard it quite often this week) and many of them start new businesses which means they need new phone lines, etc.<\/p>\n
Sure, there is fear out there but I wouldn’t want to be in any other space besides communications and select areas of tech right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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