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By
Tim Young
It’s right around this time each year that I’m always thinking the same thing: Where did the summer go? We’re steaming right through bathing suit season and into the latter portion of the year, which means it will soon be time for all things autumnal: Pumpkin pie, raking leaves, and fall tradeshows.
In preparation for tradeshow season, we’ve gathered a cross-section of some of the events taking place around the globe. Here’s our take, in chronological order.
Commworld
Aug. 19-21
Pasay, Philippines
Before August is out, there’s a chance to see what various ICT (information and communication technology) industry types are up to in the South Pacific. Produced by Global-Link Marketing, which produces trade shows about everything from plastics to mining, the show is in its 8th year and boasts over 9,000 attendees and over 270 exhibiting companies. The subject matter is a tad broad, covering telecom from antennas to mobile gaming to vision mixers, but if the Philippines is in your geographic footprint, Pasay might be a solid place to do some networking.
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In preparation for tradeshow season, we’ve gathered a cross-section of some of the events taking place around the globe. |
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FTTH Conference and Expo
Sept 12-16
Las Vegas, Nev.
However, if you’re more interested in FTTH, a stronger show for you might be found by heading west from Dallas to a place that’s less ten-gallon-hat and more four-dollar-buffet. The FTTH Conference in Vegas promises to be the “biggest and best” fiber event in the industry. Despite Verizon’s scaledown in FTTH deployment, the FTTH Council has been bullish on fiber deployment, and has keynotes
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COMPTEL Plus Fall
Sept. 12-15
Dallas, Texas
Moving into September, the volume of shows steps up a bit, beginning with COMPTEL’s fall offering, taking place in Dallas. The show, hosted by the DC-based CSP/supplier advocacy group, pulled in 1,800 last fall and 2,100 the previous year. While these numbers aren’t enormous, the CLEC community traditionally represented by COMPTEL is in heavy concentration at their events, and their fall show is really the COMPTEL show of record. If PAETEC, RCN, and their brethren are your major targets, or you just want to get a scoop on the next big CLEC acquisition, this is the show for you.
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from Australia’s NBN and Canada’s Bell Aliant to prove it. Promising 2,000 attendees and 130 exhibitors, it’s a slightly more modest show, in terms of attendees, than the council saw in, say, 2007, but is still a strong indicator that FTTH is still moving onward and upward.
NTCA Fall Conference
Sept 19-22
St Louis, Mo.
The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association’s annual conference contains everything such a conference is expected to: A golf outing, entertainment by a WWII USO-style song-and-dance ensemble, a “spouse session” featuring culinary comedy, and a country music concert/banquet. In between, however, will be some discussion on the ups and downs of providing communications services in the rural US.
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