Covad VP to Keynote DSLcon; Conference and Exhibition Event Focuses on Service Provider Issues.Business Editors DSLcon Spring 2002 IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2002 DSLcon announces renewed emphasis on service provider and carrier issues in its first gathering of the year. DSLcon will take place May 13-15 at the San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. Convention Center in San Jose, Calif. Chuck Haas, executive vice president for marketing and strategy at Covad Communications, will open the conference with a keynote address keynote address n. An opening address, as at a political convention, that outlines the issues to be considered. Also called keynote speech. Noun 1. at 9 a.m. on May 14. Mr. Haas, a co-founder of Covad, is responsible for managing all marketing programs and services for both wholesale and direct Covad distribution channels. He has more than 14 years of sales and business development experience with Intel Corp. Mr. Haas will share his insights on what Covad has been through and where the CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) An organization offering local telephone service that is not one of the traditional telephone companies. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed competition to the incumbent telcos (ILECs), enabling new companies (CLECs) is headed. It's been a wild trip since Fall 1996 when Haas and fellow former Intel Corp. colleagues Chuck McMinn and Dhruv Khanna founded the company. Carrier/ISP Day will debut at this year's DSLcon Spring, offering professionals working in those environments the opportunity to gather together for private discussions and presentations by some of the industry's brightest minds. Topics of discussion scheduled for this event -- which is open exclusively to service provider and carrier professionals -- include applications, security issues and return on investment strategies. Business, technical and deployment issues will be discussed in further DSLcon conference sessions. On the business side, attendees should look for sessions that include how DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary can successfully compete against cable modems, a lively debate on DSL vs. passive optical networking (PON (Passive Optical Network) An optical point-to-multipoint access network. There are no optical repeaters or other active devices in a PON, hence the name "passive. ), how to reduce operational costs as well as updated panels on home networking, remote terminals and VDSL See DSL. VDSL - Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line . A joint VPNcon/DSLcon track of sessions will aid service providers seeking ways to fill their pipes. VPNs are a very viable offering that will be discussed in three sessions on Tuesday, May 14. IPsec IP VPNs over DSL will discuss an affordable solution for ILECs to provide the LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. interconnect service to SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. customers. Other presentations will analyze the growing role of DSL/cable access, combined with the need for high availability as one of the aspects of the very hot VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. market and the technological options that will enable telcos to compete successfully against cable companies. DSLcon, VPNcon, SAN Conference and Server Blade Summit have joined to present Networking the Enterprise -- a mega-exhibition -- on May 13-15 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, Calif. This collocation has allowed presentation of a joint DSLcon/VPNcon conference track. These sessions will pertain particularly to service providers expanding their menu of offerings to include security and virtual private networking. At Networking the Enterprise, service providers and network professionals can take part in conference sessions and visit exhibition booths related to Broadband, Security, Storage and Servers -- all in one place. To learn more, visit http://www.networkingtheenterprise.com. |
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