Latest Trade Show news
* NEWS FROM CISCO PARTNER SUMMIT:
Cisco converged products target small businesses, 04/03/07
Cisco this week is expected to launch a new all-in-one LAN, WAN and VoIP box for small offices with fewer than 50 users.
Cisco set to fight aftermarket sellers, 04/02/07
Call Cisco a victim of its own success; as its dominance in corporate routing and switching grows, so goes the vigorous aftermarket for Cisco gear — a subsegment that’s reached a point the vendor can no longer ignore.
* NEWS FROM CTIA:
CTIA – Mobile vendors face backhaul issue, 03/29/07
Copper cables, optical fiber and leased lines aren’t as sexy as the music phones and mobile video services that are in the limelight at the CTIA Wireless show in Orlando this week, but they’re on a lot of people’s minds.
WiMAX brightest star among many at CTIA, 03/29/07
Many themes carried this week’s CTIA Wireless 2007 conference but perhaps none were more prevalent than WiMAX.
CTIA – Bill Clinton backs electronic health records, 03/29/07
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Thursday advocated an electronic medical records (EMR) law and said blogs could aid the U.S. political process.
CTIA – Cell phones now too cool to be called cool, 03/30/07
There’s more entertainment than ever on cell phones, but oddly enough, some of the flash was gone from the CTIA Wireless trade show this year. No rappers at the keynote sessions.
Verizon Wireless crawls to 4G, 03/28/07
Verizon Wireless is not yet sure which path to take to 4G.
CTIA vendors unveil flurry of high-speed cellular data access products, 03/28/07
Vendors at the CTIA Wireless conference this week debuted an array of products, from modems for laptops to gateways for offices, aimed at helping enterprises exploit the higher bandwidth finally becoming available via 3G cellular data services.
AT&T offering mobile banking application, 03/28/07
AT&T announced at CTIA Wireless 2007 this week that it is bringing banking capabilities to its wireless customers.
Sprint: ‘We are the 800-pound gorilla in WiMAX’, 03/28/07
Sprint Nextel believes its decision to select WiMAX as its fourth generation (4G) wireless technology will put it at least two years ahead of competitors’ mobile broadband networks based on the two other 4G flavors
Nortel, Microsoft lay ground for hosted services, 03/28/07
Microsoft and Nortel are extending their unified communications partnership to carrier networks, laying the groundwork for hosted services.
* 2007 TRADE SHOWS:
Orlando, March 27 – 29
6th Annual Smart Cards in Government Conference 2007
Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center
Washington, DC – April 10-13
Smart Cards for Government and Payment – Mexico 2007
Mexico City, Mexico – May 8 – 9
San Francisco, April 22 – 26
San Francisco, April 15 – 18
Storage Networking World
San Diego, April 16 – 19
Chicago, May 5 – 7
Las Vegas, May 20-25
Moscow, Russia, May 30-31
Tokyo, Japan, June 11-15
New York, Oct. 22-26
Berlin, Germany, Nov. 6-8
Chicago, June 18 – 21
Voice on the Network (VON)
Boston, Oct. 29 – Nov. 1
* INTERNATIONAL TRADE SHOWS 2007
Germany, March 15 – 21
Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 5 – 9, 2009
Taipei, Taiwan, June 5 – 9
* FREE NETWORK WORLD SEMINARS 2007:
IT Roadmap: Conference & Expo
Chicago: April 2007
Santa Clara: June 26, 2007
Dallas: September 2007
Washington: November 2007
Sept. 10-11, 2007
San Diego: September 2007
