An industry summit in London will provide a unique forum to discuss some of the critical issues facing media companies and network operators as a result of new online and mobile broadband services.

The focus of the second annual Broadband Connect Summit is "Enabling fixed and wireless networks for broadband media services". The conference will include senior speakers and representatives from global brands including BT, BBC Worldwide, Virgin Media, Alcatel-Lucent, Admob and Disney.

Existing online and mobile network infrastructure is being stretched by the increasing demand for rich media services. Next generation networks promise to bring new entertainment services to the home and the handset but will require significant investment by operators.

VocalTec announces its participation at World VoIP Africa, May 12-15, 2008, The Michelangelo Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa. At the event VocalTec will present its portfolio of NGN/VoIP solutions enabling the quick and smooth deployment of VoIP services. Specifically designed to meet the needs of emerging WiMAX and other Greenfield carriers, VocalTec provides end-to-end VoIP solutions together with ongoing project life-cycle management that ensure successful deployment and Return-on-Investment.

BroadSoft will host the third annual invitation-only "Korea VoIP Industry Forum" at the COEX Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul on May 7. This year's VoIP forum will feature a panel discussion, "Open Access," which covers regulatory issues in Korea and how open access could benefit both customers and telecom companies. The panel will include HJ Kim, managing director of BT Korea.

The Korea VoIP Industry Forum will also cover how service providers can differentiate their residential offerings, and how new unified communications (UC) solutions from companies such as Microsoft might impact business services. Also, a special session will cover how service providers can use Web 2.0 mashups with telephony features to deliver new services to businesses and consumers.

Stealth Communications is pleased to formally announce the Voice Peering Forum Summer 2008. The Forum will be held on June 23-24 2008 at Hotel Nikko San Francisco.

The Voice Peering Forum, a biannual conference, brings together over one hundred unique organizations from all segments of the information technology and telecommunications industry to discuss the latest in business and technology of peering networks and applications.

The Forum features lively cross-sectional talks, short and high-impact presentations and case studies outlining the challenges, benefits and successes that arise from peering and interconnection deployments including market analysis of interconnect platforms and applications.

Australia’s leading communications companies Optus and Telstra will join multinational technology giants Fujitsu, Motorola, Oracle, Panasonic, Red Hat, Siemens, Sony and Yahoo! at the CeBIT Australia 2008 business event.

The attendance of these major brands demonstrates that with eight weeks before the region’s largest business technology trade event opens its doors from May 20-22, CeBIT Australia 2008 has already attracted record interest.

"This year Optus’ Small and Medium Business division has entered into a multi-year agreement with CeBIT Australia," said Phil McDermott, Head of Product Marketing, Optus Small and Medium Business. "CeBIT Australia offers an ideal platform for us to showcase products including mobile, broadband and wireless solutions while building and maintaining strong customer relationships."

The nation’s most prestigious information and communications technology (ICT) research agencies have joined forces with CeBIT Australia 2008, the region’s largest business technology trade exhibition, to create the AusInnovate summit, an event to underwrite Australia’s future prosperity by better exploiting local technology talent in global markets.

AusInnovate is co-organised by the Commonwealth’s peak research and development (R&D) ICT agencies – NICTA, CSIRO ICT Centre, and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) – as a flagship conference within CeBIT Australia 2008.

Hosted by ABC Radio National Breakfast presenter Fran Kelly, a long-time political commentator on ABC television and radio, AusInnovate is a day-long business summit focused on Australian research priorities and commercialisation strategies to improve the nation’s export performance in high-tech goods and services.

Camiant has been selected to present at the "Mobile VoIP" panel being held at this year's CTIA Wireless 2008 conference, April 1-3, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The panel will focus on the maturity of mobile VoIP technology and provide real world insight into a multi-vendor Mobile VoIP trial. The panel will discuss the challenges of managing large scale Mobile VoIP within Mobile Broadband and will provide a comprehensive analysis of the most important business and technical aspects of its deployment. The panel is open to all CTIA Wireless 2008 attendees and will take place on Tuesday, April 1st from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM in Room N252 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

IPEVO is showcasing its slim USB handset for VoIP at Spring VON.x held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California from March 18-19. IPEVO's handset is a flexible solution for VoIP offering seamless integration with Skype software, Avaya one-X Desktop Edition, and other VoIP applications.

Emphasizing the company's commitment to supporting a broader range of SIP-based VoIP applications, IPEVO is exhibiting the USB handset and other devices in Booth D-914 in the Digium Asterisk World pavilion, dedicated to the companies that are leading the way in Open Source products and services.

TV Worldwide to webcast Pulvermedia's Spring VON.x, via VON TV, a Pulvermedia/TV Worldwide Internet TV channel which is attracting national attention after a recent Net Neutrality live webcast that included FCC participation. TV Worldwide will showcase Spring VON.x event during VON TV webcast coverage, March 18-19, live from San Jose. VON TV will host live and taped content, archived event footage and other IP industry video programming. An exciting state-of-the-art component of the webcast will be TV Worldwide's deployment of live flash streaming with the new Kulabyte encoder, backed by the Limelight Networks content delivery network. Other VON TV partners for Spring VON.x include IP industry leaders NextPoint, BroadSoft, Jabber, and Telcordia.

PhoneFusion will attend Spring VON.x on March 18 and 19, 2008 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif. At the event, PhoneFusion will debut an innovative voicemail application that brings the convenience of visual voicemail to smartphones. This free, downloadable application will be available to anyone -- whether or not they are an existing customer of PhoneFusion. Additionally, the company will showcase the popular PhoneFusion One Unified Communications solution which gives small business professionals access to the same features and benefits as some of the most advanced enterprise class UC systems.