TheVonBlog http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/ en 2007-02-05T19:04:41-05:00 PULVERMEDIA EXPANDS MEDIA PARTNERS AT SPRING VON http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/archives/2007/02/pulvermedia_exp.html Media Sponsors Augment Pulvermedia’s Efforts to Connect VON Exhibitors with the
IP Communications Industry’s Largest Most Qualified Attendee Audience

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.

]]> VON paul 2007-02-05T19:04:41-05:00 Pulvermedia Hosts the Eleventh Annual Spring VON Event at the San Jose Convention Center, March 19-22, 2007 http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/archives/2007/01/pulvermedia_hos.html Record Number of Attendees Expected to Attend VON and the Adjoining Video-on- the-Net Conference & Expo

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 .

]]> VON paul 2007-01-22T13:40:40-05:00 VON Enterprise Opens to Standing Room Only Crowds http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/archives/2006/12/von_enterprise.html ATLANTA, Dec. 5 -- Pulvermedia today announced that its
inaugural enterprise-exclusive event in Atlanta, Georgia opened this week,
to a greater-than-anticipated crowd discussing the impact that IP
communications is having on enterprise infrastructures and business models.
The VON Enterprise Conference and Expo is running through December 6 at the
Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, Georgia.

]]> VON paul 2006-12-05T13:15:24-05:00 SIP Trunking Issues and Trends Emerge as a Key Theme at VON Enterprise in Atlanta December 4-6, 2006 http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/archives/2006/11/sip_trunking_is.html BEVERLY, Mass., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Pulvermedia today announced
that it will host numerous events discussing SIP Trunking technologies at
the VON Enterprise Conference and Expo, December 4-6, at the Cobb Galleria
Centre in Atlanta, Georgia.

]]> VON paul 2006-11-29T13:12:14-05:00 VON wins top tradeshow honors http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/archives/2006/11/von_wins_top_tr.html VON® NAMED TOP OVERALL EVENT IN THE TRADE SHOW INDUSTRY BY TRADESHOW WEEK

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.

]]> VON paul 2006-11-16T16:20:30-05:00 VON Europe Autumn 2006 -- Report from the floor http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/archives/2006/11/von_europe_autu.html BERLIN, Germany -- The buzz was strong Tuesday as conference and Expo Delegates converged on the expo floor for the second day of VON Europe Autumn 2006 here. Exhibitors demonstrated the latest in software, infrastructure, testing and management tools designed to enable voice and video to be delivered via IP.

]]> VON paul 2006-11-07T09:59:07-05:00 Ted Leonsis -- VON is the new COMDEX http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/archives/2006/09/ted_leonsis_von.html From pulver.tv interviews at Fall 2006 VON, AOL's Ted Leonsis tells Jeff Pulver why VON is the new COMDEX:

]]> VON paul 2006-09-19T18:35:44-05:00 IPTV's future still 'wide open' http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/archives/2006/09/iptvs_future_st.html FALL 2006 VON -- Service providers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on IPTV -- even though they aren’t precisely certain where the technology is going, said panelists at the Fall 2006 VON show Monday.

]]> IPTV paul 2006-09-11T12:54:31-05:00 VONosphere Webisode #3 http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/archives/2006/08/vonosphere_webi_2.html VONosphere Webisode #3

]]> Vonosphere paul 2006-08-17T18:46:19-05:00 VONosphere Webisode #2 http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/archives/2006/08/vonosphere_webi_1.html

]]> Vonosphere paul 2006-08-10T20:56:13-05:00 Bram Cohen interview in SF Chronicle http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/archives/2006/08/bram_cohen_inte.html Good interview with Bram Cohen, inventor of BitTorrent, in the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle. Cohen will be giving an industry perspective speech at our upcoming Video on the Net event in Boston, Sept. 12-14.

]]> Video on the Net paul 2006-08-07T18:21:37-05:00 VONOSPHERE Webisode #1 http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/archives/2006/08/vonosphere_webi.html Welcome to the first webisode of THE VONOSPHERE SHOW.

]]> Vonosphere paul 2006-08-03T01:17:38-05:00 So what is a VONosphere, anyway? http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/archives/2006/08/so_what_is_a_vo.html Is it a news site? Is it a videoblog? Is it something you've never seen before? What it is, is... THE VONOSPHERE. The place where all things VON -- voice, video and vision for the IP communications industry -- come home to roost.

]]> Vonosphere paul 2006-08-03T01:05:17-05:00 The WEEK IN VON -- JULY 24 http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/archives/2006/07/the_week_in_von.html


The Week in VON, July 24

]]> VoIP paul 2006-07-24T20:43:17-05:00 MetroFi and AT&T: A pyrrhic partnership? http://blogs.pulver.com/thevonblog/archives/2006/07/metrofi_and_att.html Reading Om's news of a potential partnership between MetroFi and AT&T, I'm not sure I agree with his assessment that "it puts a serious cramp in the [muni Wi-Fi] plans of others, namely Earthlink," simply because I think you have to doubt AT&T's seriousness in this area. This could be one partner who stands to win more by the partnership failing, than succeeding.

]]> Muni Wi-Fi paul 2006-07-21T20:50:23-05:00