Welcome to the new world

• Your enterprise freed from the limits of place and space...
• The world becomes local area, linking far-flung offices and customer sites...
• Applications connecting seamlessly and reliably across nations, across borders, and around the world...

Carrier Ethernet is setting business communications alight, with analysts predicting massive and continuing growth. Service providers, from Tier-1 global giants down to local MSOs are leaping at the opportunity to offer Carrier Ethernet services to business. These services are already being rolled out, delivering dramatically quick installations, massive bandwidth increases, the benefits of VoIP, multimedia, and other mission critical business applications all at reduced capital and operating cost.

Why This is a Can't-Miss Event!

• Because Carrier Ethernet saves on resources & OpEx, speeds implementation, improves performance and brings you dynamic control of your Enterprise network
• This one seminar will give you an understanding of how it would impact your operation
• As a SERVICE, Carrier Ethernet brings together an unprecedented variety of technologies and locations to create one unified service level network for your company
• This one seminar will tell you what it is, how it works, how others are implementing it and the necessary actions to realize the benefits of Carrier Ethernet as soon as possible

Keynote Address

The Collaboration Economy and a New Era in Business Communications
Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams (respectively CEO and VP of the New Paradigms think tank) coauthored Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything – described by Tom Peters as "Must read #1, 2007—period. This is a breathtaking piece of work." Don, an enthralling and inspired orator, is an internationally renowned authority on the strategic value and impact of information technology, while Anthony’s seven models of mass collaboration provide a myriad ways to harness external knowledge, resources, and talent for greater competitiveness. How can businesses tap the full potential of the emerging networked economy and what is really needed to exploit the flexibility, cost savings and quality of service that Carrier Ethernet offers?

Who Should Attend?

Senior IT and Telecommunications professionals in medium to large enterprises:

• CIOs, CFOs, CTOs
• VPs and Directors of IT and MIS
• Network/Telecom and Distributed Application Planners

Join a new generation of leaders

The MEF [Metro Ethernet Forum] is driving the Carrier Ethernet revolution. And Network World is where industry leaders address enterprise decision-makers, offering you their insights and understanding to bring you competitive advantage. Together with leading sponsors and partners, they're unveiling the birth of the new global network in North America.

Register early. Reserve your seat. Be among the leaders who will benefit first.