The Jeff Pulver Blog: Getting Ready for Fall 2006 VON:

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September 09, 2006

Getting Ready for Fall 2006 VON:

Later today I am leaving on an afternoon jetBlue flight for Boston and once I’m in Boston I am planning on catching up with a PodCamp tonight.

As I'm getting ready to leave for Fall 2006 VON, I find myself feeling very positive about the state of the worldwide IP Communications industry. These past twelve months have been quite amazing. Despite the consolidation that the communications industry has experienced, our VON events and our industry continue to grow. In fact we are expecting a record number of visitors to experience the Fall VON Expo. And VON continues to be an international travel destination. At last check people from 69 different countries were registered to visit with us in Boston.

During the past 10 years, it has been great to watch VoIP grow up and become "mainstream" in the way the technology is being used across the communications industry. The advent of the adoption of concept of "Voice as an Application" has changed the way we communicate forever. There is no turning back to the analog ways of the past and a new communications/computing industry has grown up which leverages the possibilities that are only possible because of Internet Protocol (IP). In turn the IP Communications industry has become a multi-billion dollar marketplace with great continued opportunities for growth, especially as the umbrella of IP Communications extends across the world of wireless, wireline and broadband communications.

As I look to the future, the overall prospects for Voice on the Net have never been greater and the opportunities in the emerging world of Video on the Net feel deeper and stronger than what was present at the first VON we had at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco in April, 1997.

As our Fall 2006 VON Week starts to unfold, I'm looking forward to greeting the people who will be visiting to network, sell, buy, learn, invest, develop partnerships and strike deals. I am looking forward to catching up with some of the VON Alumni spending time with us in Boston as well as meeting some of the newer players who are attending VON for the very first time.

During the past week, I've been using pulverati to keep tabs on the VON buzz in the blogosphere and I've been a daily visitor to the VONosphere to keep track of the latest news in the IP Communications space.

Safe travels to Boston Let the “VON Blur” begin!
Tags: jetblue, VoIP, VON, Jeff Pulver