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ALTS 2000 Conference & Exposition Opens in Miami Beach; Nation's Largest CLEC Event Features Top Executives, Cutting-Edge Technology, Regulatory Issues and Profit Making Opportunities
Business Wire - May 22, 2000 12:47
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2000--ALTS 2000 Conference & Exposition, the largest trade show of the competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) industry, opened today at the Miami Beach Convention Center and the Loews Miami Beach Hotel.
Organized by the Association for Local Telecommunications Services (ALTS), the four-day Conference & Exposition is focusing on next-generation technologies, regulatory issues, major financial trends in the CLEC industry and profit-making opportunities.
ALTS 2000 Conference & Exposition has brought together dozens of chief executive officers (CEOs), and hundreds of other senior executives and engineers from most of the leading CLECs and equipments manufacturing companies. With over 2,400 registered participants and over 150 exhibitors, this is ALTS' largest show to date and the largest event of the CLEC industry.
Major sponsors include MetaSolv, Architel Systems, Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks.
"We are proud that all leading CLECs and telecommunications equipment vendors now regard our show as the place to be," said John D. Windhausen, Jr., President of ALTS, the leading national organization representing facilities-based CLECs. "This year's program contains more of just about everything - more CEOs, more high-tech companies, more exhibitors, and more fun. As this show attests, ALTS is clearly making its mark as the preeminent leader of the facilities-based competitive local telecommunications industry."
In welcoming remarks, ALTS Chairman Robert C. Taylor, Jr., President and CEO of Focal Communications and David C. Ruberg, ALTS Vice Chair and President & CEO of Intermedia Communications focused on technology and broadband services.
These officials noted the tremendous growth going on in the industry, while highlighting the fact that ALTS members were among the leading companies planning America's digital future.
"The presence of CEOs, CTOs and other top management of today's leading competitive telecom companies, as well as their bankers and financiers, has offered participants enormous opportunities not only for sharing the latest ideas, but also for business networking," said Alan Stiffler, Vice President of Association Affairs for ALTS.
ALTS has assembled some of the best minds in the industry for the conference.
Featured speakers include: James Fallows, Chief Columnist for the Industry Standard; William S. Beans, Jr., President and COO of ICG Communications; Roscoe C. Young II, President and COO of KMC Telecom; Mark Wilson, Senior Vice President of Lucent Technologies; Sohale Mufti, Vice President of Nortel Networks; and Georges Antoun, Vice President of Cisco Systems.
Other speakers for the day include industry leaders from the Federal Communications Commission, Ohio Public Utility Commission (PUC), Minnesota PUC, Georgia PUC, Entricom, Quintessent Communications, Aplion Networks, ANDA Networks, Jetstream Communications, Vina Technologies, CopperCom, Sedona Networks, InfoAvenue Internet Services, Digital Broadband Communications, Cisco Systems, Corning, Sycamore Networks, RCN Corporation, New Edge Networks and Covad Communications.
ALTS 2000 Conference & Exposition is rich in content and diversity, with today's presentations focusing on operations support systems and technologies, total service networking and voice over DSL, accelerating packet profits with IP and ATM, optical metro/access architecture, and regulatory issues and implications among other topics.
Press Conferences have also been scheduled to give participating companies the opportunity to announce new products and services. ADTRAN, Architel and XEL Communications are holding press conferences today from 12:00 noon to 2:30 p.m., while MCK Communications, Peleton, Alidian and National Independent Billing will hold theirs on Tuesday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
The media and other conference participants have been invited to attend.
ALTS 2000 Conference & Exposition was preceded by a golf tournament on Sunday at Crandon Park Golf Club, site of the 2000 Royal Caribbean Classic.
As part of the excitement, MetaSolv is sponsoring a cocktail reception on the exposition floor and the Lucent PathStar Access Server team is inviting show attendees to iViva Miami! - an unforgettable evening celebration at one of Miami Beach's landmark venues, Cafe Nostalgia and the Forge.
ALTS is the leading national industry association whose mission is to promote facilities-based local telecommunications competition. Created in 1987, ALTS has offices in Washington, D.C. and Irvine, California and now represents more than 200 companies that build, own, and operate competitive local networks.
For more information on ALTS, contact Crawford Public Relations at 703/318-5460 or visit www.alts.org.
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