Forget San Fran. I'm going to the following conference at which ASND has an exhibit:
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Monday, February 9, 1998
FIRST CONFERENCES: ISPs meet in Amsterdam
-- Europe's leading forum for ISPs and Telcos takes place in Amsterdam
25-27th February 1998.
Internet Service Provision '98 is the second annual event bringing the
competitors in this fast moving industry together to discuss the future
of the Net and the service provision industry.
Who will own the European Internet high ground? ISP's, Telcos, cable
and satellite companies or new entrants? And how can they build the
bandwidth that can sustain the use of the Net for mission critical
business applications?
ISP '98 investigates. With over 60 top-level international speakers
such as:
* John Sidgmore CEO UUNET, USA & COO WorldCom
* David Garrison CEO Netcom, USA
* Paul Gudonis President GTE Internetworking (formerly BBNPlanet)
* Doug Humphrey, Founder, Digex
* Jean-Jaques Damlamian, Executive Vice President, France Telecom
* Huw Williams, manager Internet Strategy, British Telecom
* Wim Vink, Managing Director, EUNet Iinternational
-- and many more
Focus areas include:
* The ISP Wars and the competitive landscape
* The impact of European telecommunications deregulation in '98
* Value added services - the future of voice on the Net, video over
the Net, fax over the Net, ecommerce
* The future of pricing, settlement and peering
* Virtual Communities and 3D
* Thin clients - the NC, set top boxes and PDA"s
* Bandwidth - broadband technologies (cable, satelllite, Internet over
electricity lines), quality of service, bandwidth-on-demand and
scaleability, caching
* Servicing the remote worker and virtual private networks.
* Legal and Regulatory issues - privacy, liability for content,
copyright, the need for an international legal framework for ecommerce
etc.
Plus an on site exhibition featuring the world"s leading technology
companies, and some of the most innovative new start ups including:
Microsoft, Digital, Silicon Graphics, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens,
Nortel, Bay Networks, Ascend, UUNET, Novell, RealNetworks, Okupi. Global
Reach Consortium (GRIC) ArelNet, IBM, DeltaThree, NetSet, Mirror Image
and more.
Last year over 300 of the most innovative and influential Internet
professionals converged at ISP '97.
Press are welcome at this exciting event.
Come and talk with world-leading giants and leading Internet
entrepreneurs from around the world. Meet the ISPs that are really
driving the Net to profitability and mission critical reliability.
(where you'll find the full programme PLUS -- video clips from ISP
"97, a live webcast on the days of the event, and a 3D virtual world of
the Conference)
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