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What do you see as the biggest opportunities in the industry?
“The biggest opportunities lie in helping our customers reduce the cost of deploying infrastructure that supports the FTTP/FTTX initiatives in any way possible. Helping our customers meet, or exceed installation and service turn-up deadlines, will ensure that they win the war for “life-long” subscribers that will create on-going revenue streams for years to come. They know they can easily compete with the cable industry, so we just have to help them deliver the product to the customer as quickly and inexpensively as possible. Any company that can focus in on providing the products and services that help our customers better compete in the intense race for new subscribers will have incredible opportunities in this industry for many years to come.
There will also be huge opportunities to assist customers with the challenge of funding the support of legacy networks, and the eventual retirement, or migration of legacy network elements to IP based infrastructure at minimal cost. Devices that provide least cost single port legacy to IP mediation will be in big demand. The industry no longer has budgets to replace this critical network, but it will still have to maintain it for at least another decade.”
Michael C. Stephens
President & CEO, CBM of America, Inc.
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Conference NXTcomm Summits Yankee Group
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The Yankee Group Enterprise Executive Summit at NXTcomm08
June 16, 2008
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center
Price: $395. Summit attendees are entitled to a $100 discount off a NXTcomm08 Single Day Conference Pass or a $200 discount off a NXTcomm08 Full Conference Pass.
The Network as Platform for the Anywhere Enterprise: Agenda for The Yankee Group Enterprise Executive Summit at NXTcomm08
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |
| Welcome and Introduction Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President - Enterprise Research, Yankee Group |
| 10:20 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
| Opening Keynote: The Network as a Platform Mike Day, CIO, The Cannery Casino & Hotel |
| The role of today’s network is much different than in years past. Ubiquitous connectivity has taken us to a point where virtually everything is connected and has transformed the network from “plumbing” to a platform. Moving forward the network will become the most scalable, cost effective platform for computing and application delivery. |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
| Opening the Network – Tightly Linking the Network and Applications |
| Several networking vendors claim that they have opened the network, but what defines an open network? What benefits does it provide to enterprises and end-users? This session will examine these questions, providing a new vision for the ‘Network as a Platform’ which tightly links network and applications. It will discuss real life scenarios and will demonstrate the evolution of the integrated network to an open network platform. |
| Inbar Lasser-Raab, Senior Director Network Systems, Cisco |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
| Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m. |
| Keynote: Computing as a Service: Next Frontier in On-Demand Computing Christopher Gesell, Director of Global Product Marketing, IT Solutions, Verizon |
| On-demand is fast becoming a reality. To harness on-demand computing, enterprises require a global platform that separates applications from hardware, creating a shared pool of computing resources that can be allocated. This is Computing as a Service (CaaS). CaaS provides a highly resilient computing infrastructure that enables enterprises to leverage a true on-demand model, employing computing resources (server, storage, security and network) exactly and only when needed via an agile and affordable infrastructure. At the forefront of this movement is Verizon Business. Backed by the world's most powerful global IP network, Verizon Business is poised to help enterprises understand how they can use CaaS to maximize IT resources. |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
| Keynote: The Network as a platform for application delivery |
| Users today can work from anywhere and users expect the same performance in branch offices and other remote locations as they have in the headquarters. There are many technologies that exist today that can improve the delivery and performance of applications. This presentation will discuss strategies for optimizing application performance over networks. |
| Speakers: Mark Harris, Application Delivery Architect, Trace|3 KJ (Ken) Salchow, Jr. , Manager, Technical Marketing at F5 Networks |
| 3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. |
| Break |
| 3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. |
| Roundtable: Securing the Anywhere Enterprise |
| While the network as a platform creates a unique vision to work towards, it does create some unique security challenges. This presentation will focus on many of the leading network security technologies such as access control and network behavioral analysis and describe how they can be used to secure the anywhere enterprise. |
| Moderator: Phil Hochmuth, Senior Analyst-Enterprise Research, Yankee Group |
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Speakers: Jason Anderson, VP of Engineering, Lancope Trent Fitz, Vice President of Marketing, Mirage Networks Seamus Hourihan, Vice President of Product Management/Marketing, Acme Packet Steven Teitzel, Global Solution Executive, IBM Global Telecommunications Industry |
| 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
| Closing Keynote Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President - Enterprise Research, Yankee Group |
About Yankee Group: As the first independent technology research and consulting firm, Yankee Group is the most respected source of deep insight and counsel on the impact of global connectivity evolution on enterprises and consumers. Yankee Group's expertise spans the technologies creating communications change, and the regions and industries affected by that transformation.