Beverly, Massachusetts – February x, 2007 – Pulvermedia today announced that it has expanded its list of media partners, to augment the array of activities planned to help VON exhibitors reach the largest and most qualified attendee audience anywhere in the IP communications industry.
The upcoming Spring VON event will prominently feature the following media sponsors:
• Broadcast Engineering: provides executives at broadcast networks, cable, and telephone and satellite production centers with industry news analysis and technology updates.
• Business Solutions: provides IT channel companies - VARs, integrators, and solution providers - insight into growth and sales strategies for IP Communications and VoIP products.
• Compact PCI: covers developments in CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA technologies.
• Embedded Systems: covers embedded technologies on boards, RTOS and IDEs, software tools, and chips.
• Network World: reaches enterprise decision makers through its print and online community providing IT news, analysis, reviews, events and education.
• Telecom Reseller: reports on IP/IP-PBX, VoIP, SIP, telemanagement software, call centers, call accounting, e-911, power, testing, and peripherals. It also publishes quarterly and monthly reports on major OEMs: AvayaExtra, Cisco Tribune, NEC Newslink, Nortel Networks Now, Inter-Tel Report, and Siemens Sun.
• Telecommunications Magazine: covers service provider technologies, applications and business issues worldwide, through print magazines, and numerous web-based products. Telecommunications helps the VON community understand the business issues that affect their businesses and their bottom lines.
• Telephony Magazine: provides the information that shapes service provider strategies. Its print magazines, supplements, e-newsletters, and Webcasts help VON exhibitors reach their customers and partners on a daily basis.
• Screenplays Magazine: provides strategic information for the broadband marketplace, through ideas and articles from technology experts and leading industry suppliers.
• IP Media Monitor: provides insight, analysis and news on the emerging services and applications that ride on top of the IP platform, from voice-over-IP to IPTV to online gaming and more.
• IPTV Magazine: identifies and explains the technologies, applications and business opportunities that come together to enable television services to be provided through IP data networks.
• TVover.net: aggregates news and information about IPTV, Internet TV, and other topics, while also providing a directory of online resources offering video or Internet TV and IPTV Forums.
• VoIP News: covers important aspects of the VoIP and Internet Telephony marketplaces and aggregates news analysis, events, and background information.
• And VON Magazine: the Voice of IP Communications – which covers the IP Communications industry in all its vital aspects, from infrastructure to products and services.
In addition to these media sponsors, Spring VON is also sponsored by the following companies: premium sponsors, including Dialogic and NeuStar, Inc., platinum sponsors, such as Aculab, Brix Networks, Level 3 Communications, NexTone, Personeta, Polycom, Inc., and VoEX; and gold sponsors including Acme Packet, Inc., InterTalk, Lumenaré Networks, Microsoft, Network2, and TARGUSinfo. A complete list of sponsoring companies at Spring VON can be found at: http://www.von.com/sponsors.html and a complete list of exhibiting companies at Spring VON can be found at: http://www.von.com/exhibitors.html.
The thousands of attendees gathering at VON are recognized to be the leaders in the IP communications industry. Recent survey data suggests that more than 84% of the VON attendee base has purchasing authority – and these attendees come to VON to plan their purchasing decisions, identify partners to work with, and evaluate the technologies they will purchase within the upcoming year.
The VON conference (http://www.von.com/schedule.html) runs each day from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM across multiple tracks covering VoIP, IMS, Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC), and IPTV. The ever-expanding Video-on-the-Net conference runs concurrently with VON, with four full days of additional conference sessions. Details are available at (http://pulver.com/videoonthenet/schedule.html.) Members of the media can obtain media credentials by contacting todd@pulvermedia.com or ally.forbes@pulvermedia.com.
About Pulvermedia:
Pulvermedia is the leading integrated media company, building communities and providing ready marketplace access through its unparalleled blend of trade shows, publications, web channels, and progressive cutting-edge media. And as the foremost integrated media company, Pulvermedia is ideally poised to deliver a vast range of messages to a wide variety of audiences, including technology buyers and sellers, government regulators, industry analysts, luminaries, pundits and bloggers. For more information, please visit http://www.pulvermedia.com
BEVERLY, Mass., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Pulvermedia today announced
that the 11th annual Spring VON Conference & Expo will take place on March
19-22, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. This year, Pulvermedia's
flagship event will feature a record number of attendees, exhibitors, and
speakers, while also playing host to the Video on the Net event -- which
runs parallel to VON, in the adjacent Marriott Hotel at the San Jose
McEnery Convention Center.
Prominent themes for this year's VON event include: Fixed Mobile
Convergence (FMC); IMS; IPTV; Wi-Fi & WiMAX; and rich media for mobile
environments. More than 250 of the industry's foremost thought-leaders are
scheduled to address the VON community.
Featured speakers include:
* Niklas Zennstrom, Founder & CEO, Skype, who, in his first US-
appearance in several years, will discuss the impact that Skype's
revolutionary pricing model will have on the industry
* Jeffrey Citron, Chairman and Chief Strategist, Vonage, will provide an
update on upcoming Vonage initiatives
* Mike Volpi, Senior VP & GM of Cisco System's Routing and Service
Provider Technology Group, will discuss deploying unified,
intelligent, IP-based platforms that support voice, video and data
over fixed and mobile networks
* Mark Spencer, President of Digium, will provide numerous Asterisk and
Digium updates
* And Jeff Pulver, Founder and Chairman of Pulvermedia, will share his
thoughts and perceptions regarding the emerging trends in the IP video
space.
* Other speakers include Chris Fine, Vice President, Goldman, Sachs &
Company, Andy Ory, President and CEO, Acme Packet, Jeff Ganek,
Chairman and CEO, NeuStar, and Peter Barrett, CTO for the Microsoft TV
Group. For a complete list of VON speakers, please visit
http://www.von.com/speakers.html .
The VON Expo, which opens Tuesday, March 20 at 10:00 AM, will provide
attendees with the opportunity to compare and evaluate solutions from more
than 300 exhibitors. The event is sponsored by NeuStar, Inc., Dialogic,
Aculab, Brix Networks, Broadwing Corporation, NexTone, Personeta, Polycom,
Inc., VoEX, Acme Packet, Inc., InterTalk, Lumenare Networks, Microsoft,
Network2, and TARGUSinfo. For a complete listing of VON exhibitors, please
visit: http://www.von.com/exhibitors.html .
This year's Video on the Net conference runs concurrently with VON, in
the adjoining Marriott hotel. The event features four full days of
conference sessions: http://pulver.com/videoonthenet/schedule.html , as
well as a showcase of companies
http://pulver.com/videoonthenet/sponsors.html presenting their latest IP
video technologies. Attending members of the media will have access to both
VON and Video on the Net, which will be served by a common press room.
"2007 is the year of Internet-driven TV, film and broadcasting, and
we're excited to bring the newly expanded Video on the Net event along side
of VON," said Glenn Gaudet, Chief Marketing Officer for Pulvermedia. "This
year's events offer the opportunity to meet the people that are defining
the new communications landscape, and shaping the future of media,
Internet, communications and entertainment."
To learn more about Spring 2007 VON, and Video on the Net, including
conference program content, exhibitor information, and show-specific
programs, please visit http://www.von.com and http://www.videoonthenet.com
or email Christopher Erb at cerb@pulvermedia.com . Members of the media can
obtain media credentials by contacting todd@pulvermedia.com or
ally.forbes@pulvermedia.com .
About Pulvermedia:
Pulvermedia is the leading integrated media company, building
communities and providing ready marketplace access through its unparalleled
blend of trade shows, publications, web channels, and progressive
cutting-edge media. And as the foremost integrated media company,
Pulvermedia is ideally poised to deliver a vast range of messages to a wide
variety of audiences, including technology buyers and sellers, government
regulators, industry analysts, luminaries, pundits and bloggers. For more
information, please visit http://www.pulvermedia.com .
Pulvermedia Receives Honors in Two Top Categories, Plus Two Listings on Tradeshow Week’s Fastest 50 List
Beverly, Massachusetts – November 16, 2006 - Pulvermedia™ today announced that Spring VON, in San Jose, has been named the 2006 Top Overall Trade Show by Tradeshow Week (TSW), which is the global exhibition industry news magazine published by Reed Business Information. Additionally, both Spring VON and Fall VON were named to Tradeshow Week’s Top 50 listing.
]]> TSW provides this annual award to tradeshows that demonstrate growth. In its description of the winners, TSW states, “It is not mere serendipity that led Spring VON, in its very first year in TSW Fastest 50 contention, to be named the 2006 overall fastest-growing show, and fastest-growing tradeshow.”Jason Chudnofsky, Pulvermedia’s CEO, attributes this success to the entire Pulvermedia team. “The success that Pulvermedia has achieved over the last two years is attributed to the team that’s come on board to expand upon the successes created by the vision and momentum started by Jeff Pulver,” said Mr. Chudnofsky. “Our team of seasoned executives has given Pulvermedia the ability to grow our core brands, and also acquire new ones.”
Mr. Chudnofsky joined the Pulvermedia team in the Spring of 2005. Other recent executive additions have included Glenn Gaudet, who came on as Chief Marketing Officer, and Bill Sell, who came on as VP and General Manager of VON Events. Both executives joined the team in the Fall of 2005. These recent additions have rounded out the senior management team, extending the company’s growth in publishing and events for the communities it serves.
Pulvermedia’s senior staff includes:
Jason Chudnofsky, CEO
Christopher Erb, VP of Sales, VON Events
Richard Erb, VP of International Events
Carl Ford, VP of Community & Content, VON Events
Glenn Gaudet, CMO
Scott Kargman, CFO
Maury Kauffman, VP & General Manager, VON Publishing
Bill Sell, VP & General Manager, VON Events
The award-winning Spring VON Conference and Expo will take place March 19-22, 2007 in San Jose, CA. Additional details can be obtained at: http://www.von.com/.
Thorsten Deutrich, CEO of Communipen, one of the exhibiting companies at VON Europe, said the following: "This is the best expo that I have ever been at. I have been in non-stop conversations since the show floor opened two hours ago." When asked about the attendees, Mr. Deutrich said," The attendees are the highest quality. I have been talking to buyers from Germany, Canada, Australia and Qatar. This is truly a worldwide audience." Communipen is a company that chose VON Europe as the venue to launch their company and their new VoIP solution.
VON Europe 2006 Autumn continues through Wednesday.
Along the way, Harris said he expects advertising models will change, although he -- and the other panelists -- couldn’t specify exactly how advertising approaches to IPTV will evolve.
Marc Le Clerc, manager of Ericsson’s IMS Expert Center, suggested that service providers will have to provide IPTV across different platforms, which will require vendors to cooperate on developing workable standards. Le Clerc said Ericsson’s studies have found that teenagers will want to seamlessly shift from watching IPTV on a cell phone screen to a large television screen.
Rex Wong, CEO of DaveTV, said it will be important for providers to allow users to get IPTV different platforms, but still be interactive in a “non-intrusive way,” especially if it targets desirable demographics like the 18 to 35 age group.
“This group isn’t watching TV now,” Wong said. “We have to engage in their behavior that is out there.”
Shari Barnett, director of Media Services at Microsoft TV, cited the video watching interests of one interesting viewer -- Bill Gates. She noted that in a email Gates told her he watched videos ranging from physicist Richard Feynman’s lectures to lectures on AIDS research as well as golf tournaments. Barnett used the example to illustrate the variety of programming the public will want.
Links: Everyone's watching YouTube (Paul Kapustka's Blog)
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Though infamous for its use by peer-to-peer networkers -- who don't always share legal content -- BitTorrent is making strides to go legit, as its deal with Warner Bros. earlier this year shows.
]]>Led by editor Paul Kapustka (me) the VONosphere is an independent, objective center for information about IP-enabled communications as well as the Voice and Video over IP industries.
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The Week in VON, July 24
Story links:
MetroFi Teams With AT&T for Muni WiFi (GigaOM)
Microsoft, Nortel do the VoIP dance (Computerworld)
Also not sure what Om means by calling MetroFi a "laggard" in this space -- seems to me they have a pretty good record so far for a starup. You just hope that the "partnership" news doesn't turn out to be a pyrrhic relationship for MetroFi, bogging down its progress while it waits for a the slow steps of AT&T to keep pace.
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