Pulvermedia Hosts the Eleventh Annual Spring VON Event at the San Jose Convention Center, March 19-22, 2007

Pulvermedia Hosts the Eleventh Annual Spring VON Event at the San Jose Convention Center, March 19-22, 2007

Record Number of Attendees Expected to Attend VON and the Adjoining Video-on- the-Net Conference & Expo

BEVERLY, Mass., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Pulvermedia today announced that the 11th annual Spring VON Conference & Expo will take place on March 19-22, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. This year, Pulvermedia's flagship event will feature a record number of attendees, exhibitors, and speakers, while also playing host to the Video on the Net event -- which runs parallel to VON, in the adjacent Marriott Hotel at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.

Prominent themes for this year's VON event include: Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC); IMS; IPTV; Wi-Fi & WiMAX; and rich media for mobile environments. More than 250 of the industry's foremost thought-leaders are scheduled to address the VON community.

Featured speakers include:

* Niklas Zennstrom, Founder & CEO, Skype, who, in his first US-
appearance in several years, will discuss the impact that Skype's
revolutionary pricing model will have on the industry
* Jeffrey Citron, Chairman and Chief Strategist, Vonage, will provide an
update on upcoming Vonage initiatives
* Mike Volpi, Senior VP & GM of Cisco System's Routing and Service
Provider Technology Group, will discuss deploying unified,
intelligent, IP-based platforms that support voice, video and data
over fixed and mobile networks
* Mark Spencer, President of Digium, will provide numerous Asterisk and
Digium updates
* And Jeff Pulver, Founder and Chairman of Pulvermedia, will share his
thoughts and perceptions regarding the emerging trends in the IP video
space.
* Other speakers include Chris Fine, Vice President, Goldman, Sachs &
Company, Andy Ory, President and CEO, Acme Packet, Jeff Ganek,
Chairman and CEO, NeuStar, and Peter Barrett, CTO for the Microsoft TV
Group. For a complete list of VON speakers, please visit
http://www.von.com/speakers.html .

The VON Expo, which opens Tuesday, March 20 at 10:00 AM, will provide attendees with the opportunity to compare and evaluate solutions from more than 300 exhibitors. The event is sponsored by NeuStar, Inc., Dialogic, Aculab, Brix Networks, Broadwing Corporation, NexTone, Personeta, Polycom, Inc., VoEX, Acme Packet, Inc., InterTalk, Lumenare Networks, Microsoft, Network2, and TARGUSinfo. For a complete listing of VON exhibitors, please visit: http://www.von.com/exhibitors.html .

This year's Video on the Net conference runs concurrently with VON, in the adjoining Marriott hotel. The event features four full days of conference sessions: http://pulver.com/videoonthenet/schedule.html , as well as a showcase of companies http://pulver.com/videoonthenet/sponsors.html presenting their latest IP video technologies. Attending members of the media will have access to both VON and Video on the Net, which will be served by a common press room.

"2007 is the year of Internet-driven TV, film and broadcasting, and we're excited to bring the newly expanded Video on the Net event along side of VON," said Glenn Gaudet, Chief Marketing Officer for Pulvermedia. "This year's events offer the opportunity to meet the people that are defining the new communications landscape, and shaping the future of media, Internet, communications and entertainment."

To learn more about Spring 2007 VON, and Video on the Net, including conference program content, exhibitor information, and show-specific programs, please visit http://www.von.com/ and http://www.videoonthenet.com/ or email Christopher Erb at cerb@pulvermedia.com . Members of the media can obtain media credentials by contacting todd@pulvermedia.com or ally.forbes@pulvermedia.com .

About Pulvermedia:

Pulvermedia is the leading integrated media company, building communities and providing ready marketplace access through its unparalleled blend of trade shows, publications, web channels, and progressive cutting-edge media. And as the foremost integrated media company, Pulvermedia is ideally poised to deliver a vast range of messages to a wide variety of audiences, including technology buyers and sellers, government regulators, industry analysts, luminaries, pundits and bloggers. For more information, please visit http://www.pulvermedia.com/ .

CONTACT:
Pulvermedia
Todd Keefe
+1 617 262 1968
todd@pulver.com

Source: Pulvermedia

CONTACT: Todd Keefe of Pulvermedia, +1-617-262-1968, or
todd@pulver.com

Web site: http://www.pulver.com/
http://www.von.com/
http://www.von.com/speakers.html
http://www.von.com/exhibitors.html
http://pulver.com/videoonthenet/schedule.html
http://www.videoonthenet.com/

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