Telephony Online

Wireless: Towerstream’s WiMAX service, Towerstream CEO Jeff Thompson
Towerstream has been providing businesses with reliable, quality WiMAX service since 2001, and currently offers the service to businesses of all sizes in 10 major cities -- Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, Newport, RI, New York City, Providence, RI, the San Francisco bay area and Seattle. This past year, Towerstream expanded its distribution model when it announced that it is powering a NYC landmark skyscraper - the GM Building - with building-wide access to its high-speed, wireless broadband solution. Towerstream has also been conducting trials of mobile WiMAX technology with equipment from Alvarion in some of its networks.

Wireline: Joe Ambeault, director of consumer product strategy for video at Verizon
To speed up development of new video services for its FiOS and mobile video platforms, Verizon has set up a highly unusual beta program involving about 1000 of its customers who have an opportunity to try out new features and functions and interact directly with Verizon engineers. Ambeault will talk about how the program was set up and how it can help speed product development within the traditional telecom structure.

Wireless: XO Anywhere, Nicola Jackson, director of product management for XO
XO Anywhere is a suite of mobility and roaming features developed for its XO IP Flex customers. The feature package includes Simultaneous Ring, Click to Dial, Remote Office, unified messaging features and a Web-based toolbar that lets end-users set their own feature parameters dynamically. XO Anywhere is intended to aid mobile and home workers to be more productive and efficient, and to present a professional look from wherever they are working. Jackson will discuss how this service was developed and how it is being used by XO customers.

Wireline: Paetec SIP Trunking, Sanjay Hiranandani, SVP-Engineering
SIP Trunking enables customers with specific IP phone systems that have been tested for interoperability to use an MPLS network to connect multiple sites to a hosted voice and data service. PAETEC also offers a broad range of customer self-service options, coupled with PAETEC's strong customers service model. The Hosted IP customer also has secure web-portal access to the PAETEC Application Servers, where users have the ability to configure their personal call handling feature preferences. SIP Trunking customers can choose the bandwidth quantity that meets their business need, ranging from 1.5 Mbps and to DS3, Ethernet and higher, utilizing their MPLS bandwidth dynamically for voice and data service.

Wireless: Phone Fusion Voicemail Plus
Fusion Voicemail Plus by PhoneFusion is a free mobile handset application that runs on a wireless data service and provides an innovative user interface to visually display, select and listen to voicemail messages. It integrates voicemail messages from multiple voicemail systems into a central location, displaying text headers containing unique identifiers, including true caller ID names. With a simple tap of a button, users can quickly scroll, select and listen to messages in order of choice.

Wireline: Sojern’s enhanced boarding passes, presented by Greg Crosby, Founder and CEO of the NextGen Marketing Group
Sojern this summer announced a national program with six major U.S. airlines offering passengers a new suite of online offers, travel information and trip benefits, printed right on the electronic boarding passes they obtain from the airline's online check-in process. Crosby will address how his company used its V-Market services to provide Sojern with practical strategic/marketing consulting with On-Demand marketing services ranging from advertising and public relations to staffing/recruiting to branding/positioning to help Sojern launch its new service.