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NCF 2000 Wrap-Up
NCF 2000-A Place to Envision the New World of Communications
Thousands of industry professionals gathered at this year's National Communications Forum 2000 to discuss the most significant developments and technology advances across the major sectors of the information industry.
Providing four days of solid educational programming with over 60 sessions and full-day TecForums, it is no wonder NCF remains the industry's premier educational event.
Conference chairperson and plenary speaker, Peter V. Lessek, Vice President of Research and Development at Lucent Technologies, led a panel of experts on "NGN—New Players and New Models" for a comprehensive discussion on delivering services effectively and profitably.
During a special plenary panel on "The Future Network—How Do We Get There?," Joseph J. Bonocore, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Eclipse Networks, along with fellow industry luminaries, discussed the key technological developments that are leading the industry to the networks of tomorrow.
Conferees also gave their full attention to keynote presentations by Thomas Richards, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Clear Communications; Frank A. D'Amelio, Group President of Switching Solutions Group at Lucent Technologies; and Gary A. Cohen, Co-Chief Operating Officer at Global Crossing Ltd.
Seminars and TecForums were an astounding success. Topics of great interest included IP networks, wireless, emerging access architecture, global perspectives, future of broadband technologies, and DWDM.
NCF 2000 drew a wide variety of international attendees from Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
Leading-Edge Technology Displays
Presenting a first-hand look at the latest technologies, products, applications, and services in the information industry, InfoVision exhibits played a major role in the success of NCF 2000. With the InfoVision hours strategically integrated into the conference schedule, attendees had the opportunity to interact with exhibiting companies and industry leaders in an intimate venue.
2000 InfoVision exhibiting companies included the following:
- ADVA Optical Networking
- Advanced Fibre Communications
- Advanced Switching Communications
- American Digital Switching
- Alcatel
- ARC
- Astral Point Communications
- Catapult Communications Corporation
- Clear Communications
- CommTech Corporation
- Controlware
- Corning Cable Systems, formerly Siecor
- Cyras Systems
- DSL Forum
- ECI Telecom
- FastComm Communications Corporation
- Granite Systems
- Harris Corporation
- HyperEdge
- International Engineering Consortium
- INETCO Systems Limited
- Lucent Technologies
- Make Systems
- Mayan Networks
- Mediation Technology
- NHC Communications
- Nortel Networks
- Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC)
- Pingtel
- Simpler Networks
- Sonus Networks
- Step 9 Software Corporation
- Tekelec
- Telcordia Technologies
- TeleManagement Forum
- Telica
- Teradyne Telecommunications
- Terayon Communication Systems
- Tollgrade Communications
- Turnstone Systems
- Verilink Corporation
- Visionael Corporation
- VocalData
- Xilinx
InfoVision Award Winners Honored
The InfoVision Awards program was established to honor corporations and individuals for their unique products and services introduced in the past year. All 2000 InfoVision Award recipients were honored at a special awards ceremony held Wednesday, October 18, during the Wednesday Luncheon Keynote Address and InfoVision Awards.
2000 InfoVision Award winners include the following:
- Agilent Technologies
- Alcatel Optronics
- AT&T
- Cisco Systems
- Enron Broadband Switching Systems
- GTE (GENUiTY)
- IBM
- InfoLibria
- Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications
- Lucent Technologies
- Mayan Networks
- MetaSolv Software
- Motorola
- NEC America
- NightFire Software
- Nortel Networks
- NorthPoint Communications
- Paradyne Corporation
- Red Hat
- Siemens ICN
- Solect, A Division of Amdocs
- Sonus Networks
- Telcordia Technologies
- Tellabs
- TeraBeam Corporation
- Teradyne
- Visual Networks
- WildPackets
Gain recognition and prestige for your organization's most inventive product, service, technology, or application by entering the InfoVision 2001 Awards program sponsored by the International Engineering Consortium.
The InfoVision Awards program recognizes technologies, applications, products, and services judged to be the most unique and beneficial to the industry. The awards also honor corporations and individuals for innovative contributions and developments that have proven important to society. Award winners are selected from hundreds of nominees based on the following criteria: innovation, uniqueness, market impact, customer benefits, and value to society.
Awards are presented in several categories representing all aspects of the information industry. These include the following:
- Application services
- Computer software
- Internet
- Private networks
- Public networks
- Satellite
- Wireless
For information on the InfoVision 2001 Awards, or to receive an awards application, contact Tom Fergus at +1-312-559-3653 or tfergus@iec.org.
The International Engineering Consortium Says Thank You to Corporate Registration Sponsors
As sustaining sponsors of the IEC University Program, the International Engineering Consortium offered a Corporate Registration Program exclusive to university sponsors. Through their generous support, the Consortium is able to facilitate a unique program that allows qualified university professors and students to participate at IEC educational events. The Consortium is pleased to thank these organizations for their participation in the NCF 2000 Corporate Registration Program:
Through their involvement in the Corporate Registration Program, industry professionals from these organizations continue to expand their base of knowledge on the trends, issues, technologies, and techniques that are having the greatest impact on the information industry.
The Consortium's Corporate Registration Program provides a unique educational training opportunity for employees to attend the many sessions offered in the conference program. Employees under the Corporate Registration Program are entitled to the following benefits:
- Access to all sessions and TecForums, plenary panels, and keynote presentations
- Complete speaker materials, forum compendiums, and handouts
- Participation at all major industry luncheons, receptions, demonstrations, and exhibits
- Prominent recognition in advance promotional materials and on-site signage
The Corporate Registration Program has been developed exclusively for university-sponsoring companies within the geographic region surrounding the conference with the intent to provide corporations cost-effective training and valuable continuing-education benefits, such as the following:
- Substantial savings in corporate education through single tuition contribution
- Continuing education to several corporate divisions and groups
- Savings in hotel and travel expenditures for employee training
- Employee access to the latest industry information and technology
A Special Thank You to Corporate Sponsors of NCF 2000-InfoVision
Platinum Sponsor
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Executive Program at NCF 2000
NCF 2000 offered an entire day of educational programming where senior-level executives gathered to discuss the future direction of the telecommunications industry. This invitation-only program featured an Executive Workshop tailored to senior executives of today's leading organizations. Industry leaders had an extraordinary opportunity to interact and network with other distinguished colleagues during the Executive Workshop and private reception exclusive to attendees of this special NCF 2000 program.
This Executive Advisory Committee workshop—The ASP Model and Its Implications for Communications Service Providers—examined the ways in which the ASP model can give NSPs the flexibility to use OSS on a pay-per-use basis and offer their own customers the applications that enable a new e-business environment. Other Executive Program workshops included Internet Futures and Directions and Disruptive Internet Technology for Emerging Broadband Carriers.
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