IMTC Highlights 2008

 

In This “IMTC Highlights”

  • Message from the President
  • Unified Communications Initiative
  • VON Forums
  • Member Alerts

 

Message from the President

This year promises to be exciting for the IMTC and its members as we explore together the timely challenges of disparate communication forms and content delivery.

Our role – and goal in 2008 – is to turn these challenges into opportunities for our member companies and their customers by facilitating the integration of enterprise communications and business processes into “unified communications.”

The IMTC will facilitate unified communications and content delivery by demonstrating thought leadership as well as our traditional role of technical interoperability experts. No community is better positioned to understand and address the business challenges and opportunities in unified communications and content delivery than our members.

As a member of the IMTC community, your company helps to shape next-generation business strategies and deployments. As a result, your company and customers benefit first from those strategies and deployments.

As we began to do in 2007, the IMTC will continue to share its expertise and solutions in highly targeted communities, such as Spring and Fall VON and our own SuperOP! events. We all have a stake in the outcome of the unified communications and content delivery discussion.

I look forward to working with all of you during this exciting year. On behalf of the IMTC, I’d like to invite more telecommunications leaders into the consortium to help us lead the industry. Only members can shape the IMTC strategy, which is determined by member interest and opportunity.

Sincerely,
Anatoli Levine
President
IMTC

 

Unified Communications and Content Delivery Initiative

Based on member interest and an industry groundswell, the IMTC has embraced unified communications and content delivery as a strategic focus and initiative in 2008.

With its testing expertise, the IMTC is uniquely qualified to lead business to a reality of unified communications and content delivery. Our initiative includes communicating our collective expertise and outlook through conferences and tradeshows, press releases and papers.

The IMTC has identified two barriers to commercial unified communications and content delivery:

  • Visibility in content delivery: Content creators, owners and service providers lack visibility into how pushed content is received in different locations and by different channels.
  • Deployment reference architecture: End-users have no proven scheme to connect interoperable products to work across diverse products, services, networks and locations.

We are confident no one is better positioned to identify the solution(s) to overcome these barriers. Through IMTC efforts, beginning this year, businesses should soon be able to manage their communications to reduce costs and improve productivity and revenue opportunities.

 

VON Forums

The IMTC gains worldwide recognition and offers compelling – and occasionally controversial – perspectives on industry issues with speaking engagements at targeted conferences and tradeshows. Members and non-members benefit from IMTC members’ expertise during these sessions, promoting the need and the practices for interoperable multimedia telecommunications.

We drew an impressive number of people to our IMTC Forum at Fall VON last October. The reviews were positive and encourage the IMTC toward Spring VON in March and another IMTC Forum co-located with Fall VON later this year. Your participation and your insight are crucial to the IMTC’s success, so please share your ideas and questions by emailing Kfir Pravda, vice president of marketing, at

 

Member Alerts

Upcoming Events:

  1. Spring VON
    • IMTC Panel Session
    • March 17-20, 2008
    • San Jose, CA
  2. IMTC SuperOP! 2008
    • May 12-16, 2008
    • Tel Aviv, Israel

For more information, or to register for an upcoming event, visit http://www.imtc.org/events/

Guest Bloggers Needed

The IMTC blog, located at http://blog.imtc.org/, needs more members to contribute to the discussion. Do you have any ideas or questions to contribute? The blog’s value to members and the public increases with more frequent postings and diverse perspectives.  For more information or to contribute, contact Kfir Pravda, vice president of marketing, at .