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Interop’s little sister decked out for fall

New York show big on content, light on announcements
By Jim Duffy , Denise Dubie and Tim Greene , Network World , 10/22/2007
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The air is crisp and cool, the leaves are turning, the Yankees and Mets are in post-season turmoil….

It must be time for Interop New York.

Yes, the little sister to the humongous show in Vegas in the spring begins this week, and while not as large or lavish, it nonetheless will host content key to enterprise network architects.

Themes include mobility, unified communications/collaboration, and NAC. High-profile additions to the 200-plus exhibitors — about half as many as the Vegas show — include Cisco, IBM and Microsoft.

At 7,500, expected attendance is up 36% from last year and exhibition space is up 33%. Attendance at the spring conference is usually in excess of 20,000.

Keynoters will be executives from Google, IBM, Microsoft and XenSource, discussing topics such as how changes in virtualization will reshape enterprise IT and the competitive battlefield; as well as the increasingly vital role interoperability and data privacy play as network connections expand and are relied upon more and more by businesses and governments.

Mobile Business Expo and VoiceCon — where the latest issues, trends and products for VoIP, unified communications and collaboration will be highlighted — will be collocated with Interop New York at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan.

Mobile Business Expo will review hot topics such as implementing fixed/mobile convergence (FMC), deploying mobile business applications and experiences with 802.11n, voice over Wi-Fi and wireless LAN security. Read up on the wireless market’s most burning questions

“A lot of the smaller [vendors] may be pulling the trigger on 11n draft 2.0. You’ll see a lot of applications building off of the infrastructure,” says Mike Brandenburg, enterprise network systems analyst at Current Analysis.

Security will also be big at Interop New York, with one day-long seminar dedicated to NAC concepts; architectures from Cisco, Microsoft and the Trusted Computing Group; and issues in planning for and deploying NAC in enterprise networks.
Announcements, however, may not live up to the highbrow content. None of the major infrastructure vendors is expected to unveil significant products.

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