Our parent company, pulvermedia, has embarked on companies register the highest bundled services acquisition an ambitious campaign to establish several regional VON Expo/ rate. Another result emphasizes the adoption of Internet Conferences worldwide. Protocol-based solutions for voice communications. 32 percent
Next up: VON Mexico 2006, to be held at Centro Banamex of the companies who declared knowing about these appli-in Mexico City, February 14 to 17. As with most of our inter- cations, confirmed using them often for business related act-national endeavors, VON Mexico 2006 is held in conjunction ivities.” with E.J. Krause & Associates, Inc. (EJK) which organizes over One interesting VON Mexico exhibitor you may never have 11 “EXPO COMM” trade shows in Asia, Europe and Central encountered before is COMNES, a Mexican company founded America; all of these are devoted to telecom, networking, wire- in 1998 that deals in various VoIP gateways. Nissim Jasqui less, IT and IT security. Romano, General Director of Comnes, says that “The VoIP sec-
In the case of VON Mexico 2006, it will occupy Centro tor in Mexico is relatively new. The professional market has Banamex along with EJK’s EXPO COMM Mexico 2006, Mexico’s been implementing these technologies very recently. We expect only telecom, IT, wireless, networking and Internet technologies the business sector to be driven by implementations of VoIP exhibition and conference. These two shows should together solutions during the next year.” generate considerable synergy and will provide attendees with an Voz Telecom will also be there, which offers a white-label out-opportunity to see what’s happening with IP communications in sourced VoIP platform to providers. Their mission is to ultimately Mexico and Latin America. There’s dominate the hosted IP telephony been so much attention paid to the services market in Europe and Latin US, Europe and Asia that we forget America, by developing various in-the tremendous possibilities await- novative Intelligent Communicating vendors and service providers ion applications hosted on its mod- “south of the border.” ular, distributed platform.
César Jiménez Cervantes is a tele- Of course, you’ll see some familiar com analyst/consultant with Select, names at VON Mexico too. For ex-a telecom and IT consultancy that ample, Elhum Vahdat and Ben Levi willbepresentingthe TENDENCIAS of APEX Voice Communications 2006 (TEND-ENCIES 2006) pro- will be on hand to demonstrate gram during EXPO COMM Mexico. the APEX Multi-Services Platform “Select estimates that by the end (MSP) and its powerful OmniVox of 2005 there will be 5. 7 million Figure 1. Land line distribution in Mexico by company AES engine, a system that can non-residential phone lines [land size, 2005. handle billing, prepaid and messag-and mobile lines], out of which ing, and can already be found in 69 percent will be fixed access,” says Cervantes. “When analyz- over 15,000 installations worldwide, including 200+ service ing annual telecommunications expenditures by service type, providers. one can see that the corporate segment’s total expenditures are VON Mexico will also host the usual round of giant compa-concentrated in paying for local access, followed by cellular te- nies such as Cisco, with its vast array of access, routing, switch-lephony, domestic and international long distance services and ing and IP phone gear.
800 numbers.” So, any way you look at it, VON Mexico 2006 should be an
“Select’s corporate demand behavior studies show interesting exciting show, with new faces, new companies, and an exotic facts regarding Mexican corporations’ propensity for acquir- locale. I look forward to seeing you there. V ing bundled telecommunications services,” says Cervantes.
“Our research shows that construction and mass media related Richard Grigonis can be reached at rgrigonis@vonmag.com.
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