We were in Las Vegas last week for the Interop Telecommunications and Software trade show. We’ll be posting a photo report and commentary, later in the week of May 26 as our content moves over from the old site. [click photos, left for full-screen detail image]
Steve visits with a Polycom product manager while being beamed via video conference from the show floor at the Mandalay Bay conference center, to New York City Tuesday morning April 29 2008.
We placed a special emphasis at this show on studying what’s new in VoIP and unified communications products, services, and software.
We had the opportunity to visit with Avaya, Cisco/LinkSys, Microsoft, Panasonic, Samsung, ShoreTel, Dell, D-Link, Vidyo, and other leading VoIP/UC OEMs, ISVs, along with a number of other interesting companies and startups.
There’s quite a story behind this little $50 10Gbps Ethernet fiber PMD called SFP. We wanted to nominate their demo in the Ethernet Alliance booth as “best art of show”. Details pending.
[photo - pending 5/27] We won a book on Wireless from this Gentleman after answering several technical questions about CDMA / spread spectrum wireless technology correctly. We then sprang a question on him: who owned the first patent for frequency-hopping spread spectrum? That’s right, kids…Marlene Dietrich, the actress.