Telco Access & Interconnection Making You Nuts?

Mistakes and missteps in engineering, provisioning and managing your access
and interconnection networks elements can cost your firm millions – and lead to inefficient operations and poor service to your customers. That's why you should make plans now to attend CCMI's Understanding Telco Access & Interconnection conference on Oct 20 and 21, in Washington, DC. Click here to get the best deal...
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This comprehensive 1½-day program is led by access and interconnection expert Andy Regitsky, a savvy industry veteran who has worked and consulted on access and interconnection with interexchange carriers, LECs and regulators for more than 20 years.

Join him and your peers at this conference and you'll:

* Get a solid grasp of the regulatory environments that determine price, availability and performance of access and interconnection services.

* Understand how coming legal, regulatory and legislative changes will
impact your ongoing network costs.

* See how the piece parts of access and interconnection

* Learn how and where competition – or its absence – influences you network
costs.


* And much more.

Understanding Telco Access & Interconnection is the best way to make sure you and your staff are operating with the skills and knowledge needed to manage your local network costs. In fact, CCMI guarantees it! If after attending Understanding Telco Access & Interconnection, you don't feel you have a deeper understanding of access and interconnection, CCMI will refund 100% of your registration fee, no questions asked.

Don't miss this chance to make sure you and your staff are up to speed on every aspect of your local and long distance access networks... reserve your place now online at http://www.ccmi.com/telcoaccess/home.html?WT.mc_id=C1096DIDX or call (866) 620-5938.

DIDX is a media sponsor for this event in order to share with its 11,000+ service provider members at www.didx.net with information and discussion on access and interconnections, such important issues to the telephony industry. Other events DIDX sponsors are listed at http://www.didx.net/events.


What this post is really about? USAC, FCC, sales and use, communications, federal excise, rural empowerment, footprint, and you know, all the headache, making sense of it and understanding it all.

Women in voIP Panel

Several men and a few women I met at Astricon suggested there be a Women in voIP panel discussion at a few conferences. How can you help with this idea? Let's start by gathering answers to these questions.

1. What topics should be discussed on a women in voIP panel discussion? One person suggested a 3-5 min. description of how each of the panelists got involved in voIP and telecommunications. Another was shared best practices in networking and marketing as well as technical know-how and experience.

2. Who should be on the panel? What company do they work with, position in company, URL, their experience and services they provide?

3. How to get more females in the IP communications, voIP, and telecommunications industry to participate in conferences in not only group roles but also leadership roles? They can be in business, working on a degree in these areas or considering them, all ages.

4. Do you have a blog? Will you blog about this also?

This is not proposed because these women are women, but because we're missing out on accomplishments, ideas, collaborations, and experience of these women. I hope to get some serious discussion on this blog post at this blog, myvoIP by Association blog and on my Facebook network in the notes section. John Cirner was the first to propose the idea to me at Astricon... thanks, John!

Carlton O'Reilly Wins Nokia 810, at Astricon's Code Zone

DIDX (also known as DIDXchange) sponsored Astricon 2008's Code Zone Developer Room and Party to show its deep appreciation to the Asterisk developer community around the globe. Carlton O'reilly won a Nojia 810 at the Asterisk Bake-off at the Code Zone.

See more pictures from Astricon 2008 at my Facebook photos Astricon 1 or Astricon 2 or at my Picasaweb Google photos. If you know anyone in them, please tag.

And check out what a Nokia 810 looks like and what it can do. Wikipedia shows on Sept 28, 2008 at 6:24 PM... "The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet is an Internet appliance from Nokia, announced on October 17, 2007 at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Despite Nokia's strong association with cellular products, the N810 is not a phone, but instead allows the user to browse the Internet and communicate using Wi-Fi networks or with a mobile phone via Bluetooth. It builds on the hardware and software of the Nokia N800 with some features added and some removed."

Congratulations, Carlton.

I didn't get to see who want the Asterisk Troubleshooting Contest. Let me go check that too. Astricon.net's website does not state who won. Does anyone know?

Astricon 2008 Code Zone Developers, Robot, and Lumenvox

... give me time and I'll add several dozen other videos from Astricon 2008 in Glensdale, AZ. They range from you vicariously experiencing the Code Zone Developer Party Tuesday night sponsored by DIDXchange to around 1 AM robot demo to Gerd Graumann announcing exciting new apps can be created because of Asterisk and Lumenvox's partner I6net.com.

Gotta go study now.