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ANY OTHER UNAUTHORIZED RE-DISTRIBUTION IS A VIOLATION OF COPYRIGHT LAW. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this Issue: - Heard on the Net - IP Telephony Jobs - Fall 2002 VON: Quick recap - My Notes from Fall 2002 VON: Carpe Diem! - Telephony Future Here Now, by David Isenberg - The pulver100: New Growth Companies in the Communications Sector - Letter to FCC Chairman Powell - October 21, 2002 - WSJ Editorial: Son of Frankentobacco - Introducing Kevin Werbach's new event: Supernova - Call for Speakers - Spring 2003 VON week - re: Putting email to Work - Writing more efficient Business eMail - Kids on the Net: Back to School and Yu-Gi-Oh! - pulver.com 2002 Conference Calendar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Heard on the Net - Companies on the Move AT&T recently filed a petition with the FCC for a declaratory ruling that their phone-to-phone IP Telephony services should be exempt from access charges. BroadSoft recently raised $32.5 Million in their "C" round of funding. Maptuit Corporation recently raised $6 million in second round funding. PAR3 Communications recently raised $15 million in "C" round of funding. Cedar Point Communications recently announced that Comcast Interactive Capital has completed an investment in the company. Performance Technologies recently announced an investment of $1.5 million in Momentum Computer, Inc. Performance Technologies recently announced an agreement with Intel to acquire a portion of its embedded Communications Platform Division in a sale-of-stock transaction. Allot Communications recently announced the acquisition of the assets and intellectual properties of privately held NetReality. - People on the Move Eric Sumner recently left dynamicsoft. Brian Allain recently left dynamicsoft. Jim Daresta recently left Iperia. Trefor Davies recently left Mitel and founded PurplePacket. Jim Price recently left Telewest Communications to take up freelance work in the areas of IPCablecom Standards and Lawful Interception in the UK and Europe. Kathryn Brown, former FCC Chief of Staff, recently joined Verizon as Senior Vice President for Public Policy Development and International Government Relations. Vijay Saraswat recently became a professor in Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State. Christian Testman recently left FAST and joined Birdstep. Mike Jablon recently joined Vonage as Director, Reseller Sales. Tom Kittle recently joined GlobalPhone, Corp. as Director of Internet Telephony. Ferris Peery left Motorola Broadband Communications and recently joined Cedar Point Communications as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales. Lloyd Spencer recently left Microsoft and joined eQuest Technologies as a Vice President. Lee Ellison recently left Glenayre and joined Dilithium Networks as Senior VP of Global Sales. Gary Crapson left Cisco and joined iMS NexGen Services as VP/GM Strategic Alliances. John Butz recently left Vonage and joined IP Blue as Product Manager for the VTGO-PC product line. Salim Bhatia recently joined Trinity Convergence as chairman and CEO. Jim Grady recently joined Tenor Networks as vice president of business development. Max Schroeder recently joined Telephony@Work as position of Vice President, Channel Operations. Martin Barclay recently joined Telera as Product Manager, Service Provider Platform. Jennifer Stagnaro recently joined Shoreline Communications as Chief Marketing Officer. Jim Quiggins recently joined IEX as Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing. Please email: people@pulver.com to report a change in your position. Please refer to: "People on the Move" in the subject. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IP Telephony Jobs from: ( http://pulver.com/jobs ) As your company has job openings, please consider posting them with pulver.com. please email: jobs@pulver.com for job posting information. Recent job posting (as of October 21, 2002): - Sr. Sales Engineer - SS8 Networks If you are interested in pursuing this position, please visit ( http://pulver.com/jobs ) for full details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fall 2002 VON: Quick recap Fall 2002 VON Week took place October 7-11 in Atlanta. Special thanks to everyone who helped make the week possible, including: our speakers, exhibitors, sponsors, delegates and the pulver.com team. What I saw in Atlanta was an industry which may have been a little beaten but was very much still alive and well positioned to recover in the coming months and year. While some of our friends were missing from the exhibit hall, a few exhibitors that I know of closed sales while they were in Atlanta and that just added to the positive buzz. Please feel free to visit: ( http://pulver.com/von/press.html ) to read some of the stories from the Media that came from Fall 2002 VON. Those of you who know me know that I'm a big fan of community and for that reason, know that at times I like to share things which may otherwise be personal for others. In this regard, I thank everyone who spent time with me the night of October 9th to help celebrate my 40th birthday. Those at the party won't forget my favorite band from Seattle, Herding Cats, who played their hearts out. Based on the reaction of our party guests, I invited the Herding Cats to play Spring 2003 VON in San Jose on April 2nd. One interesting trend was that there were more people attending from Japan than from Canada and this was a reflection of where some of the opportunities for IP Communications exists in today's marketplace. Delegates at Fall 2002 VON were able to take advantage of our WiFi network and the additional face-to-face networking which took place because of the co-located industry meetings which included: JAIN, TIPHON 30 Meeting, the H.323 Forum, the OSP Users Group, SIPit 11, the SIP Forum and the ENUM communities. One of my personal highlights of Fall 2002 VON was giving Vint Cerf the "William G. McGowan Award" for leadership in overcoming obstacles to global connectivity. I enjoyed being in the room to listen to Vint as he spoke about the early days of the net and shared his perspective on the importance of SIP and ENUM. One strong positive indication for our future was the size and depth of the 11th SIPit event that pulver.com hosted. Over 140 engineers from 63 companies and 15 countries spent the week in Atlanta testing their SIP implementations with each other. From what I'm told, this was one of the largest SIPit events ever, and in these times, it was great to see the teams of engineers so focused on getting their implementations tested and working with each other. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ My Notes from Fall 2002 VON: Carpe Diem! In the weeks leading up to Fall 2002 VON I spent a lot of time looking at the state of where thing were, worried about what to say about where things are going, and what I realized is that the same fundamentals that made it clear that the Internet would absorb voice as just another application still remain. Below are my notes from the Industry Perspective that I shared at Fall 2002 VON. A copy of my presentation is available at: ( http://www.von.com/slides ). Our industry doesn't need hype to survive. No one doubts the future of communications is IP communications and I believe that IP Communications is unstoppable. But what the industry still needs are customers, and to get customers we should consider starting with a clean sheet of paper. Why a clean sheet a paper? Looking at our recent past, gateways to the PSTN provided bridges but not much innovation and in fact created bottlenecks. The opportunity we have is to enhance communication between people and we should not be limited by dialing locations and phone numbers. To date, we have been limited in our thinking based on what previously existed rather than what was possible. We were limited by the artificial barriers of being as good as the PSTN when in fact we could always (in theory) deliver something better. We need to be able to build and create without regard to legacy protocols and legacy requirements. Having a clean sheet of paper would give us the opportunity to have a fresh start and to try again to take advantage of IP. It is up to us as an industry to harness the real power of IP and convert its potential energy into kinetic energy. As an industry we still need to take chances and we must continue to experiment. In the October 2002 issue of Red Herring I found the following quote which seems to make this point: "When Visionary people use different technologies as interchangable parts, unexpected and important combinations results. The Wright Brothers used bicycle parts to build their airplane." We can't be afraid to take chances and make mistakes. We still need to stumble across our future together and dare to be different and dare to make the mistakes that will turn into tomorrow's inventions and innovations...We need to become viral again! We as an industry need to go back to a time when internet telephony was viral and people were scared of our power, of our future. The community building power first demonstrated by iPhone back in 1995. For 2003 another viral opportunity exists, this time look for the growth of dedicated consumer electronic devices that deliver VoIP over WiFi. Our future is bigger than the past, 95% of what Communications will be was developed in the last six years. Looking at my wish list of what I believe the Industry needs, my short list includes: - A royalty free, single variable bit rate adaptive codec from dialup to broadband. - Low cost, low end IP edge devices. - Service Providers to deploy an architecture that distributes service execution. - Take advantage of the great QoS available today on the Internet.s backbone. - IPv6 needs to be supported and rolled out. - The Purple Minutes battle cry has yet to be truly heard. - Drop the IP in front of IP Communications since we really represent the future of the Communications Industry. Carpe Diem! Sieze the Day! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Telephony Future Here Now, by David Isenberg ( from SMART Letter #77, reprinted by permission) TELEPHONY FUTURE HERE NOW by David S. Isenberg The future of voice telephony has arrived. It is not evenly distributed yet, but it won't be long. I heard it at VON 2002 (Voice on the Net, www.von.com) in Atlanta this week. I'm talking about a telephony program that runs in a vanilla Compaq Ipaq palm-sized device with a vanilla 802.11b wireless connection to the vanilla, unmanaged, public Internet. It uses plain old headphones and the Ipaq's on-board microphone. It runs with Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system. It sounded great -- better than toll quality, better than the public switched telephone network. There was no telephone company in the loop (no dial tone, no service, no features, no billing) beyond pure Internet connectivity. In the test call I made from Atlanta to another device running the software in San Francisco (about a dozen router hops), the voice of the fellow at the other end was crystal clear. There were no echoes and no audible glitches. The delay was just noticeable to my fairly experienced ears. This delay -- unlike other software-only Internet telephony I've tried -- was not enough to interfere with the dynamics of the conversation. It sounded great, in part, because the telephony software resolves 8 kHz of audio, versus 3 kHz for conventional telephony. (In contrast, AT&T's TrueVoice project, in which I participated, spent countless millions of network- upgrade dollars and countless person-years of technical effort to stretch the 3 kHz telephone spectrum by just a few percent.) According to Global IP Sound, the 15-person company that produces the telephony program (www.globalipsound.com), the program codes speech at a variable data rate, averaging about 80 kbit/s. This is too fast a data rate for dial-up, but would in principle work fine for most DSL and cable modem hookups. Global IP Sound has combined a lot of techniques to reduce audio quality losses from Internet packet arrival-time jitter, data errors and packet loss. They call this combined effort "Edge QoS." (For this alone, I gotta love 'em.) According to standard Mean Opinion Score tests, the data stream can endure 10% to 30% packet loss before speech quality falls to the level of plain old telephony. To me, it was a thrill to talk on the Ipaq and walk around the VON exhibit floor only because I knew that there was nothing special about the system -- except the software. I could easily get used to it. In principle, the telephony software could run on any platform. Versions of it were running on several different laptops and desktops at VON's Global IP Sound demo. The version that does 8 kHz audio in 80 kbit/s is relatively low-complexity, so it could even run in inexpensive processors in telephone-like appliances. But the integration of SIP with Global IP Sound's program could be awesome. Indeed, Nortel has announced such an effort (see http://tinyurl.com/1xc6). In June, 2001, I wrote a White Paper for Microsoft on its Windows Messenger SIP platform (see http://tinyurl.com/1xau). I really liked the presence-based integrated communication application, but in fairness, the voice demo I got ran over an internal LAN. The voice quality problems that Global IP Sound has solved on the wild, wooly, public Internet are hairy ones. I wonder if Microsoft's voice coder could be so robust. When I tried Microsoft's own Ipaq-plus-802.11 implementation six months ago at VON in Seattle, I was intrigued by the possibilities, and I considered writing it up for the SMART Letter, but long delays killed the experience. Microsoft had no similar demo at this most recent VON. I have no business relationship with Global IP Sound. But I knew co-founder Bas Kleijn when we were at Bell Labs. I last saw Bas in 1996 in the Bell Labs Murray Hill parking lot. He told me he was quitting to take a professorship in Sweden, but he said nothing about founding a company or inventing the future. Bas, congratulations, my hat is off! The arrival of better-than-PSTN telephony brings to the foreground issues that I've been raising for several years. One speaker at VON said that the telcos were still making more money from voice than from data, even though, by all accounts, data traffic has surpassed voice traffic. The Global IP Sound application has the potential to divert even more high-profit minutes away from the voice business model. The incumbent telecom industry is in financial trouble already, from buying equipment that has now been made obsolete by technological advances. Robert Pepper, the head of the U.S. FCC's Office of Plans and Policy, said at VON that telephony has a lot of built-in cross-subsidies: business subsidizes residential telephone service, long distance subsidizes local telephony, and urban subsidizes rural telephony. The FCC's conscious policy direction for years has been to equalize these subsidies gradually. Perhaps one could say that voice has been subsidizing data too, but I prefer to think that the data market, because it has arrived lately, has developed in a more market-based way. But any way we look at it, the success of Global IP Sound's end-to-end telephony will speed the arrival of the future and the telcos' demise. from Smart Letter#77, (c) 2002 by David Isenberg. To subscribe visit: ( http://isen.com/SMARTreqScript.html ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The pulver100: New Growth Companies in the Communications Sector While many people are stuck in trying to figure out how the big players will survive the current transition, they miss the presently small companies with positive stories. During the past few months I took a look at the state of the IP Communications Industry and spent my time focusing on the private (non-public) companies in the Communications sector that have demonstrated, in my opinion, new growth on the telecom landscape. These days most people don't expect to find new growth in the telecom industry, but the pulver100 ( http://pulver.com/pulver100 ) reminded me that ecosystems renew after a fire. The present landscape includes the faltering elements of the old world along with the nascent and unrefined elements of the new. Judging by the companies in the pulver100, the future of telecommunications has emerged as if the PSTN never existed. The pioneers need to press forward without some of the comforts of the late 90's, but it seems clear these companies embody the telecom future. The pulver100 includes private companies in the communications sector that have substantial real-world deployments and enjoy significant growth rates. The companies have little to no dependence on the traditional telephone network, equipment, or service providers. The list reflects predicted changes in the value chain as the vertical integration of the traditional telecom sector collapses, the emergence of Internet Protocol as the driving force in communications removed the artificial barrier to entry that had protected the status quo until recently. The companies prospering in the new environment follow the computer and networking industry model with open interfaces, connectivity decoupled from services, and software decoupled from hardware. The 2002 pulver100 includes: 2Wire, Acme Packet, ActiveBuddy, Applied Messaging, Arbitnet the exhange, Ascendent Telecom, Bantu, BayPackets, Brecis Communications, Broadsoft, CallServe, Cbeyond Communications, Catena Networks, CITEL Technologies, Commetrex, Convedia, Cosmocom, DotComHotel, dynamicsoft, eDial, Gallery IP Telephony, Everest Broadband, FaceTime, General Bandwidth, GoBeam, Groove Networks, Hotsip, i3Micro, Indigo Software, Ingate, Interoute, IP Blue, IP Unity, IPeria, Jasomi Networks, jNETx Communications, Kagoor, Kancharla, Leapstone Systems, LongBoard, M5 Networks, Marratech, Media-Streams, Mediatrix Telecom, Metaswitch, Mitel, Natural Convergence, Netcentrex, Netrake, NexTone Communications, Nuera, Octasic, OnRelay, Operax, OZ, PacketVideo, Pactolus, PalTalk, Pelago Networks, Personeta, Pingtel, PointOne, PresenceWorks, RADDATA, Ridgeway Systems, SS8 Networks, Santera, Secure Logix, SeeStorm, sentitO, SnowShore Networks, Sockeye Networks, Sonexis, Sphere, Surf Communications, SWYX, Sylantro, Syndeo, TalkingNets, Telchemy, TeleSym, Telica, Tellme Networks, Telstrat, Telverse, ThinkEngine Networks, TransNexus, Ubiquity Software, Unimax, USA Datanet, Vertical Networks, VocalData, Vonage, Voxeo, Voyant Technologies, Webmessenger, WHP Wireless, Winphoria, Wintegra, Zion Software. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Letter to FCC Chairman Powell - October 21, 2002 The Hon. Michael Powell Chairman Federal Communications Commission Dear Mr. Chairman: We thank you for your leadership in FCC efforts to understand the causes of the current telecom debacle, and especially for convening the FCC's October 7, 2002, Telecom Recovery En Banc hearing. We were dismayed that several of the En Banc speakers confused causes with effects. We believe that balance sheet weakness, long-haul overcapacity, and even the recent speculative bubble, are effects, not causes. If we attempt to treat the symptoms, we risk missing the causes and prolonging the agony. We hold that the primary cause of current telecom troubles is that Internet-based end-to-end data networking has subsumed (and will subsume) the value that was formerly embodied in other communications networks. This, in turn, is causing the immediate obsolescence of the vertically integrated, circuit- based telephony industry of 127 years vintage. CLEC, IXC and ILEC bonds used to purchase now-obsolete infrastructure assets have become (or inexorably are becoming) bad debt. Weak last- mile competition prevents the most powerful technological advances from reaching all but a few customers; this is the largest cause of long-haul over-capacity. One En Banc participant, NYU Professor Larry White, had views that seem consistent with ours. He recommends that we let firms that are failing fail as quickly as possible. We believe that it would be harmful if government actions prevent, delay or interrupt this evolution. It must proceed if the United States is to continue to be a leading contributor to communications progress, and if its citizens are to benefit from the technologies that are now available and the applications that they enable. The telecom debacle is not a cyclical phenomenon. The telephone network's technological base, and the business model under which this old technology thrived, are obsolete. Recovery is not an option. We can only move forward; how far and how fast will be determined by our continued freedom to innovate. Let the United States learn by not duplicating the Japanese banking experience in the telecom arena. We need to see the current situation not as a disaster, but as a natural event; part of a revolution in productivity and human benefit as big as the agricultural and industrial revolutions. Given these views, we urge the FCC to: + Resist at all costs the telephone industry's calls for bailouts. The policy should be one of "fast failure." + Acknowledge that non-Internet communications equipment, while not yet extinct, is economically obsolete and forbear from actions that would artificially prolong its use. + Discourage attempts by incumbent telephone companies to thwart municipal, publicly-owned and other communications initiatives that don't fit the telephone company business model. + Accelerate FCC exploration of innovative spectrum use and aggressively expand unlicensed spectrum allocation. Mr. Chairman, we note with gratitude your impatience with antique regulatory structures, and your attempts to embrace new technology. Also, we acknowledge the burden inherent in the FCC's duty to ensure the continuity of communications, especially basic dial-tone continuity, in the face of such changes; we are prepared to lend assistance as the FCC grapples with this issue. Notwithstanding, we urge you to continue against the inevitable onslaught of those seeking to preserve an impossible status quo. Sincerely, Izumi Aizu, Asia Network Research Jay Batson, CEO, Pingtel Robert J. Berger, President, Internet Bandwidth Development, LLC Dan Berninger, pulver.com Scott Berry, telecommunications consultant, Darien CT Michael Bialek, President, InfoComm Inc. Scott Bradner, Harvard University Richard Campbell, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Douglass Carmichael, individual, dougcarmichael.com Judi Clark, individual, ManyMedia.com Anders Comstedt, Managing Director, Stokab Gordon Cook, publisher, The Cook Report on Internet Timothy Denton, Internet attorney, tmdenton.com Greg Elin, independent software developer Tom Evslin, CEO & Chairman, ITXC David J. Farber, Moore Professor, University of Pennsylvania Bob Frankston, individual, frankston.com Dewayne Hendricks, CEO, Dandin Group Roxane Googin, editor, High Technology Observer Charles W.K. Gritton, President, Broadsword Technologies, Inc. David S. Isenberg, Principal Prosultant(sm), isen.com, LLC Johna Till Johnson, President, Nemertes Research Peter Kaminski, individual, peterkaminski.com Shumpei Kumon, Executive Director, GLOCOM Bruce Kushnick, Executive Director, New Networks Institute Andrew Maffei, individual, Falmouth MA Jerry Michalski, sociate.com David Newman, President, Network Test Inc. Matthew Oristano, former CEO, SpeedChoice, People's Choice TV Mark Petrovic, individual, Pasadena CA Jeff Pulver, founder, pulver.com Frank R. Robles, CEO, Neopolitan Networks, Inc. Charles Rybeck, Managing Director, Benchmarking Partners Paul Saffo, individual, pls@well.com Doc Searls, Senior Editor, Linux Journal Clay Shirky, telecommunications consultant, shirky.com Porter Stansberry, publisher, Agora Inc. Ted Stout, CEO and founder, The ROI Institute Brough Turner, CTO and co-founder, NMS Communications David Weinberger, co-author, Cluetrain Manifesto Kevin Werbach, technology analyst, Supernova Group LLC (Special thanks to David Isenberg for organizing this letter.) ---- Please feel free to share your reaction of this letter with the mailing list for the readers of the Pulver Report. To subscribe to the mailing list, visit: ( http://listserv.pulver.com/archives/pulver-rpt.html ) or via email: send email to listserv@listserv.pulver.com with the line "subscribe pulver-rpt" in your message body. No subject line is required. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WSJ Editorial: Son of Frankentobacco On August 23rd, The Wall Street Journal editorial page took notice of the telecom antitrust activity initiated by Daniel Berninger in an editorial entitled: "Son of Frankentobacco". A copy of the editorial is available at: ( http://webreprints.djreprints.com/607661251946.html ). Please take a look at the editorial, and if so inclined, feel free to respond to the editorial. Do you agree with the WSJ editors? What do you think the FCC and DoJ should do? Do you think the antitrust laws have a role? Please send thoughts/comments to: Daniel Berninger, dan@pulver.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing Kevin Werbach's new event: Supernova Supernova is Kevin Werbach's new conference exploring the distributed future, to be held December 9-10 in Palo Alto, CA. Full details are available on the event Website ( http://pulver.com/supernova ). Kevin writes: "Why another conference, especially now? With the bursting of the Internet bubble, businesses, end-users, investors, and vendors face a bewildering array of challenges. Yet a common theme runs through the fundamental questions facing software, communications, and media. That theme is decentralization. Intelligence is moving to the edges, through networked computers, empowered users, shifting partnerships, fluid digital content, distributed work teams, and powerful communications devices. Supernova is the first event to bring these threads together. Those who understand the business opportunities, technical underpinnings, and policy implications of decentralization will have a competitive advantage in any economy. At Supernova, you'll hear from leaders such as: - Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin - Microsoft Corporate VP Daniel Lewin - Commentator Clay Shirky - Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff - Cap Gemini Ernst & Young CTO John Parkinson - IBM VP of Advanced Technology Rod Smith - Visionary Howard Rheingold We'll explore the critical challenges of collaborative business, the promise and peril of Web services, the wholesale rethinking of telecommunications, and the conflicts over broadband media. You won't hear any dull sales pitches, analyst mumbo-jumbo, or speakers chosen because their companies are sponsors. You *will* find insights you can put to work, impressive people on-stage and off, full wireless connectivity, and the best Weblog support of any conference, ever. For four years, I edited Esther Dyson's newsletter Release 1.0 and co-organized the exclusive PC Forum. Supernova is your opportunity to benefit from that experience. I've personally developed the themes, organized the agenda, and selected the speakers. I'm producing Supernova in partnership with pulver.com. We're capping attendance to ensure an intimate and productive environment. I've stocked the agenda to help you get the maximum benefit in two days. Register for the conference by October 25th to take advantage of our "early bird" pricing. As bad as the market may be, can you afford not to have a strategy? Now is the time to understand the future. Supernova is the place." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Speakers - Spring 2003 VON We have just started working on the schedule and sessions for Spring 2003 VON which will be taking place March 31 - April 3rd at the San Jose Convention Center. Please feel free to email: your suggestions for the content which you would like to see covered in San Jose. Our formal "call for speakers" is open now and the deadline for submitting speaking proposals is November 29th. Please feel free to submit your speaking proposal to: ( http://pulver.com/von/speak/ ). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ re: Putting email to Work - Writing more efficient Business eMail I'd like to thank all of the Pulver Report readers who have shared their feedback with regard to writing efficient business email. I have complied the feedback and will be including it in the next issue of the Pulver Report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kids on the Net: Back to School and Yu-Gi-Oh! Once school started, my 8 1/2 year old twin sons gave up their "Backyard Baseball" in favor of their Yu-Gi-Oh! card collecting and Gameboy playing. On weekends, they even got me hooked into watching their favorite cartoon series, Yu-Gi-Oh!. Seems my kids sometimes also get obsessed with things just like their dad. :-) While the kids continue to discover new Yu-Gi-Oh! related websites using Google, they still end up on eBay for a first look at what some of the newer Yu-Gi-Oh! cards look like. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pulver.com 2002/2003 Conference Calendar ( http://pulver.com/conference ) "Events for the Communications Industry" (tm) 2002 November 18-22 - SIP Forum @ COMDEX, Las Vegas, NV ( http://www.sipforum.org) December 4-5 - VON Japan, Tokyo, Japan ( http://www.key3media.co.jp/von ) December 9-10 - SuperNova 2002, Palo Alto, CA ( http://pulver.com/supernova ) 2003 March 31 - April 3rd - Spring 2003 VON, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA ( http://pulver.com/von ). March 31 - April 2 - Spring 2003 Location Based Services Summit, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA ( http://pulver.com/lbs ) April 1-2 - Connectivity 2003 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA April 2-3 - 2003 Presence and Instant Messaging, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA April 29 - May 1 - SIP Summit 2003, Las Vegas, NV June 4 - pulverReport party @ Supercomm 2003, Atlanta, GA. June 9-12 - VON Europe 2003, Olympia Conference Centre, London, UK September 22-25 - Fall 2003 VON, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are aware of others who would like to receive the Pulver Report, please visit ( http://pulver.com/reports/subscribe.html ). To unsubscribe, please visit ( http://pulver.com/reports/unsubscribe.html ) Please send your comments and feedback regarding this issue of The Pulver Report to: jeff@pulver.com. 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