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Bell Consulting coverage of Interop Las Vegas, April 29-May 1 2008

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Steve talks locally AND to a chair in NYC via video call at Polycom booth

We were in Las Vegas last week for the Interop Telecommunications and Software trade show. We'll be posting a photo report and commentary, later in the week of May 26 as our content moves over from the old site. [click photos, left for full-screen detail image] Steve visits with a Polycom product manager while being beamed via video conference from the show floor at the Mandalay Bay conference center, to New York City Tuesday morning April 29 2008.

in case you missed it - Foundry Networks has ARRIVED

We placed a special emphasis at this show on studying what's new in VoIP and unified communications products, services, and software.

We had the opportunity to visit with Avaya, Cisco/LinkSys, Microsoft, Panasonic, Samsung, ShoreTel, Dell, D-Link, Vidyo, and other leading VoIP/UC OEMs, ISVs, along with a number of other interesting companies and startups.

Interop SFP Demo - how to connect a 10Gbps fiber for about 50 bucks

Is Firetide catching Fire in Metro Wi-Fi deployments? Bell Consulting is researching the Metro Wi-Fi space and will have more to say soon. We'll also post more info here about what we learned from Firetide at the show.

There's quite a story behind this little $50 10Gbps Ethernet fiber PMD called SFP. We wanted to nominate their demo in the Ethernet Alliance booth as "best art of show". Details pending.

[photo - pending 5/27] We won a book on Wireless from this Gentleman after answering several technical questions about CDMA / spread spectrum wireless technology correctly. We then sprang a question on him: who owned the first patent for frequency-hopping spread spectrum? That's right, kids...Marlene Dietrich, the actress. {More details on CWNA pending}.

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