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This year's event had over 1500 attendees, up from last year, and north of 80 exhibitors. The expo floor was generally bustling from prior to the official floor opening to well into the nightly cocktail hour. Exhibitors expressed a moderately high level of satisfaction with booth traffic, though most had their hands full with prearranged meetings.

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The fall/winter Americas show is still much smaller than the spring European show.  Not all of the size difference is attributable to the more desirable conference venue of Nice, France over Dallas, Texas.  The shows echo the effects of the much deeper crash in America and the slower climb back.  As a result, in America, things are just waking up.  And that metaphor is a good one for this show - it felt like most participants were still a little sleepy and doing their morning stretches. 

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Carrier Ethernet can provide much more than just cheap, scaleable bandwidth. It supports advanced, virtual network services and integrates well with multiple applications to create high value services. We forecast that service revenues will approach $3 billion by 2009 (see Figure 1). Many of these services will be unique and differentiated, providing telecommunications operators many opportunities to compete. Future competition will not be the simple price competition that has characterized “me-too” services.

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When asked, in an interview published by Pipeline two years ago, this month, what makes Synchronoss unique, you responded: "Ours is a 'software as a service' business model, which has gotten stronger every year. The differentiation we offer is in taking over the whole fulfillment function and giving our customers a fixed cost per transaction and a guaranteed service level for each transaction."

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Telcos are at a crossroads. Competitive pressures have reached a fever pitch -- from cable providers who now offer telephone service; from small VoIP and Internet providers who offer bargain basement pricing; from wireless providers who offer multiple calling plans.

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Lack of attention to end-user quality of experience (QoE) across the service provider, mobile operator and enterprise communities could be the downfall to mass IP service adoption.

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New Year, New Challenges

Who doesn't enjoy the new year? 

There are parties and confetti and kisses at midnight. Above all, there are resolutions. There are promises that we make to ourselves and to one another that ensure that the new year will be healthy, strong, motivated, and free from vice.