March/April 2001

BY RICH TEHRANI

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If you haven't noticed by now, the Communications ASP opportunity promises to be one of the fastest growing areas of telecom, but it doesn't stand alone. Regardless of how the economy does, the latest breed of communications products and services offer new business opportunities and save companies tons of money. IP telephony is one technology that enables entrepreneurs to launch a phone company allowing their customers to dial internationally at dramatically lower rates than currently available. Service providers too are implementing this technology and saving large sums of money as IP telephony equipment is much less expensive to implement than traditional circuit-switched equipment.

If you are looking to purchase products in the communications market or need to know more about it to further your career, the best way to learn is to attend a trade show where you can explore the exhibit hall, network with your peers, and learn from industry experts. If you attend one communications show this year, I suggest Communications Solutions EXPO, as it is the best place to learn about the whole world of communications under a single roof. Whether you are a developer, enterprise, government user, service provider, or reseller, we have made sure to put together a cutting edge conference track and we have backed it with an exhibit hall filled with leading edge communications exhibitors.

I am really pumped about the way we designed this year's conference, as we made sure that no matter what your interest in communications or who you are, we have a conference track for you. We cover the most important leading edge technologies in our conferences. Here is a brief list:

• Communications ASP
• Wireless Internet/mCommerce
• CRM/eCRM
• Internet Telephony
• Broadband Technologies
• Enhanced Services
• Unified Communications/CTI

The following tracks will also be featured at this event:

• Enterprise Solutions
• Contact Center Solutions
• Developer/Integrator Solutions
• FedCom: Government Solutions
• Service Provider Week
• e-Sales/e-Service Week
• CommTrends (Research/Analysis)

As a bonus, we have also added a new optical networking workshop, a CT Institute Convergence Primer, and a special session on the deployment of Linux in the open communications market.

There is only one place to find all of the latest communications technologies organized in a fashion that will allow you to quickly absorb everything you need to know in order to help you in your career. And that place is Communications Solutions EXPO May 23-25 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. I urge you to register now at www.csexpo.com and avoid the long lines at the show. I hope to see you there.

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Sign up to attend our cutting-edge conferences at this show, and you can learn about the following communications ASP topics:

• Kicking Your Business Communications Into the Network Cloud
• The Contact Center as Customer: Communications ASPs Answer the Call
• Building a Communications ASP From Scratch
• The Absolute Service Provider: Government as CASP
• Adding Value to Traditional Offerings with Hosted Communications Services
• The Hosted Commerce Trend: From Sale to Delivery
• The Market Opportunity for Communications ASPs

Of course, there are dozens more educational conference topics available at this show, and many of the sessions will cover the ASP space as well. For more information and detailed explanations of our conference sessions, please visit the Communications Solutions EXPO Web site at www.csexpo.com. Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to network with the cream of the communications industry crop and learn about the very latest technologies and solutions.