Subj: Excitement Builds as the Industry Prepares for the...
Date: 5/5/1999 16:10:49 Pacific Daylight Time
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Excitement Builds as the Industry Prepares for the Opening Of Networld+Interop 99 Las Vegas Next Week
Event to Feature World-Class Technical Education, an Interactive Show Floor, Major Industry Announcements, More Than 400 New Product Announcements, 60+ Hot
Start-Ups & State-of-the-Industry Presentations by Top Leaders
FOSTER CITY, Calif., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Ziff-Davis (NYSE: ZD) reports that excitement continues to build as new announcements, special programs and events are being planned for this year's NetWorld+Interop 99 Las Vegas. NetWorld+Interop will take place May 10-14, 1999, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Major Announcements
NetWorld+Interop 99 Las Vegas will be the site of more than 400 new product and product enhancement announcements, as well as corporate announcements from a wide range of companies such as 3Com, AT&T, Altiga Networks, Boostworks, Cisco Systems, Data Fellows, Internet Appliance, Inc., L-3 Network Security, Lucent, MUSIC Corporation, Rainbow Technologies, WRQ and many others.
In addition, the ground-breaking announcement of a new industry consortium involving more than 20 top networking and telecommunications companies will be made on Tuesday, May 11th at 11:15 a.m. in the Media Q&A Room in the Conrad Ballroom at the Las Vegas Hilton.
New Conferences Offer High-Level Content and Address the Latest Technologies NetWorld+Interop is the largest technical conference in the world, with six separate conference offerings, including its flagship General Conference, CommUnity, the Engineers Conference, and three new conferences -- the EXPO COMM conference for service providers, Executive Interop and VPN Day.
The network is the business, and Executive Interop is a unique new educational offering that will address the new strategic role of networking. Executive Interop will take place Sunday through Tuesday and will feature high-level content designed to assist business leaders in making strategic decisions that will affect the futures of their companies. This symposium will offer a look at today's voice-over-data products and will provide guidelines to help executives evaluate the viability of a voice/data integration strategy, including a keynote presentation by Jeff Akers, president, NetCare Data Services, Lucent Technologies. Co-produced with the Yankee Group, Executive Interop is sponsored by Lucent Technologies.
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are one of the hot new areas of focus at the forefront of the networkyng industry today. VPN Day is a one-day seminar that will take place on Monday, May 10th, and will focus on the most critical and technical aspects of VPNs. The education will feature a combination of technical presentations by industry experts as well as cutting-edge technology demonstrations by the new InteropNet Labs. VPN Day is sponsored by 3Com, Ascend Communications, Inc., Concentric Networks, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., GTE Internetworking, Microsoft, Red Creek and V-One.
Four Hot Spots Highlight New Technologies
The Wireless LAN Interoperability Demo Hot Spot will be led by members of the UNH Interoperability Lab's Wireless Consortium and will focus on the capabilities of the IEEE 802.11 specification and the current level of multivendor interoperability. Participants include: Aironet Wireless Communications, Inc.; BreezeCom Wireless Communications Inc.; Harris Semiconductor; InTalk Inc.; ITRI; Intermec Technologies Corp.; Lucent Technologies; NoWires Needed BV; Nortel Networks; Proxim; Symbol Technologies; Telxon Corp.; Zoom Telephonics; Spectralink Corp. and Cabletron Systems.
Extranets redefine electronic commerce from the narrow connotation of credit card transactions to include full-scale business negotiations. Extranets increase operational efficiency, enhance product competitiveness and elevate customer intimacy by enabling companies to securely share information with third parties. The Extranet Hot Spot led by Aventail will identify key business issues and educate participants on how to build an extranet that works today and keeps pace with evolving standards and technology advancements. Participants include: Aventail; Concentric Networks; CyberTrust; F5 Labs; IBM; ISS; Marimba; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Security Dynamics and Spyrus.
Today's networks must stretch beyond corporate walls to support telecommuters, day extenders and road warriors. The High-Speed Remote Access Hot Spot led by Compatible Systems will address how technological advances make it possible to deliver hassle-free remote access at incredible speeds. Featured high-speed remote access components for home and business users will include VPNs, DSL modems, cable modems and high-bandwidth technologies delivered by CLECs/service providers. Participants include Compatible Systems Corporation, PSI Net, Concentric Network, Cayman Systems and Netrix, Inc.
The Storage Area Networks Hot Spot, led by VERITAS Software, will showcase of the use of Storage Area Networks/fiber channel for enterprise environments. It will demonstrate the interoperability of fiber channel products -- switches, adapters, operating systems, disk arrays and tape libraries from multiple vendors using standards-based communication: TCP/IP, SCSI and fiber channel. Participating companies include Advanced Digital Information Corporation; Ancor Communications, Inc.; ATL Products, Inc.; Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.; Crossroads Systems, Inc.; Emulex Corporation; Exabyte Corporation; Gadzooks Networks, Inc.; Hitachi Data Systems; Hewlett Packard Company; JNI; McData Corporation; Qlogic Corporation; Storage Technology Corp. and Sun Microsystems.
Industry Influencers
The NetWorld+Interop world-class keynoters illustrate the all-encompassing importance of networking technology in the business world today. The stellar line-up includes William T. Esrey, Chairman, CEO, Sprint; Charles B. Wang, Chairman, CEO, Computer Associates International; John Chambers, Chairman, CEO with Judith Estrin, Senior Vice President, CTO, Cisco Systems; Michael Dell, Chairman, CEO, Dell Computer Corp.; Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman, CEO, Novell, and Jeannette Symons, CTO and co-founder, Ascend Communications.
Industry Award Programs
In what has become the networking industry's recognized symbol for innovation, the BEST OF SHOW awards, sponsored by Data Communications and InternetWeek will again distinguish the products and services that significantly advance distributed computing, networking and telecommunications. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, May 11th.
In addition the First Annual Interop Enterprise Awards will be introduced at NetWorld+Interop 99 Las Vegas this year. Sponsored by Inter@ctive Week, PC Week, and Smart Reseller, these awards will honor today's most forward-thinking companies for their e-business and Internet-related innovations.
New Media Program
Media and analysts will get an exclusive preview of the highly anticipated products, services, activities and trends set to dominate the event this year, communicated by some of the industry's most respected experts, at the Media/Analyst Preview Breakfast and Panel Discussion, Tuesday, May 11th at 7:30 a.m. in Barron Room A at the Las Vegas Hilton.
NetWorld+Interop 99 Las Vegas provides a forum for networking professionals from the enterprise and service provider markets, as well as resellers and corporate decisions makers to examine industry trends and advances. The event is the world's largest and most comprehensive event focused on IP data networking. NetWorld+Interop 99 Las Vegas will feature more than 100 conference sessions, four PowerPanels, 58 tutorials and workshops, keynotes by five top CEOs, and two leading CTOs, and more than 700 companies in a three-day exhibition.
About NetWorld+Interop ...
NetWorld+Interop provides networking, Internet and telecommunications professional buyers with a uniquely comprehensive forum for education and evaluation of products and services in order to make critical purchase decisions. NetWorld+Interop affords buyers from enterprises, carrier/service providers, and resellers/integrators the opportunity to experience live technology demonstrations first-hand. It's this focus on advanced, multivendor, multi-protocol, multi-service interoperability technologies and solutions that makes NetWorld+Interop the definitive networking event. NetWorld+Interop is produced by ZD Events, the events group of Ziff-Davis. For more information about NetWorld+Interop 99 Las Vegas, visit www.interop.com.
About Ziff-Davis ...
Ziff-Davis is an integrated media and marketing company focused on computing and Internet-related technology, with principal platforms in print publishing, trade shows and conferences, online content, television, market research and education. The Company provides global technology companies with marketing strategies for reaching key decision-makers. The ZD Events subsidiary of Ziff-Davis is the world's leading producer of information technology events, serving over 5,000 exhibiting companies and two million attendees through more than 60 events in 18 countries. ZD Events' products range from the IT industry's largest exhibitions such as COMDEX, to highly focused events featuring renowned educational programs, custom seminars and specialized vendor marketing programs. For more information about ZD Events, visit zdevents.com.
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