The Golden Group announced that members of the media will have an exclusive opportunity to have an early look at the hottest announcements being made at ISPCON Fall 2006, during its second annual “Sneak Peek Press Preview.” ISPCON Fall 2006, “The Internet Industry Event,” is being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center from November 7 – 9, 2006.

After reviewing the numerous news announcements planned for release at the event, ISPCON show management hand-selected its “Top 10” most newsworthy developments, which will be unveiled during the special “Sneak Peek Press Preview,” to be held on Tuesday, November 7 at 4:30 pm, inside the Demo Theatre on the show floor. Exhibitors selected to participate in this special press event include:

AstriCon 2006, the only conference dedicated to Asterisk, the industry’s first open source PBX, is set to take place October 24 through October 27, 2006 at the Westin Central Park in Dallas, Texas. In its third year, Asterisk developers and users meet at the AstriCon conference to gain insight from Asterisk case studies and hear the latest on innovative solutions.

“This year’s AstriCon conference in Dallas marks the conference’s third anniversary, which we view to be a success for the open source industry,” said Mark Spencer, creator of Asterisk and founder of Digium. “In the last three years, Asterisk has gained tremendous notoriety and we’ve seen our community and business growth explode. We are looking forward to celebrating many milestones at this year’s conference.”

Nominum, the leading provider of network naming and addressing solutions, is pleased to announce that both Georges Smine, Senior Director Product Marketing and Patrice Hervouet, Technical Sales Director EMEA from Nominum, will be presenting seminars at IP'06. IP'06 runs 17 and 18 October 2006 and is being held at Earls Court in London.

xchange and Switch and Data present a new live Webinar "How to Plug Into the Emerging VoIP Marketplace" focusing on how a VoIP provider can take advantage of the emerging VoIP ecosystem for cost-efficient, diverse and rapid service delivery. Webinar attendees will learn the components and value proposition of the VoIP ecosystem, discover how to quickly plug into the new VoIP marketplace, understand how a neutral VoIP marketplace can reduce costs, increase reliability and accelerate your VoIP implementation as well as understand how VoIP peering can reduce costs and speed delivery.

How to Plug Into the Emerging VoIP Marketplace
A Live Webinar From xchange and Switch and Data
Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET

For Generation Y -- which is more than 70 million strong -- passing notes and pen pals have been replaced by instant messaging and social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. And as wireless access to the Web expands around the country -- with more than 41,000 Wi-Fi sites nationwide, it's growing faster than cell phone networks did. And now there's a new way to connect to the web, and your friends using Wi-Fi with Sony's mylo personal communicator. This device allows you to send instant messages with Google Talk instant messaging service and Yahoo! Messenger. Registered Skype users can use the mylo communicator to make free Internet calls with the 113 million other Skype users. The embedded HTML browser lets you connect to full Web pages on the Internet and send and receive text emails with web mail services.

Covergence, the leader in scaling and securing access to VoIP and other real-time services based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), announced that iTalk Broadband Corporation (iTalkBB) will use its Eclipse SIP security solution to deliver the industry’s first secure residential VoIP service. With this new offering, iTalkBB – for the first time – will offer to its residential subscribers fully secure "bullet proof" access to the real-time, multi-modal applications and services that they demand.

This week at WiMAX World in Boston, ZyXEL Communications Inc., a leading provider of secure broadband networking, Internet connectivity and routing products, will announce the latest addition to their WiMAX product line with the MAX-200H and MAX-300 broadband gateway customer premise equipment (CPE). ZyXEL is the first to market with an all-in-one solution based on the IEEE802.16e-2005 standard that combines WiMAX, Wi-Fi, VoIP and security in a single box.

pulvermedia announced conference details and the speaker lineup for the VON Europe Autumn Conference & Expo, taking place in Berlin, 6-8 November at the International Congress Center (ICC).

Europe's largest and most influential IP communications event comes to Berlin to provide the opportunity to understand the issues and trends affecting the IP communications ecosystem, and it will help attendees learn more about the future direction of the industry. Topics covered at VON Europe Autumn include:

The Power of VoIP Seminar Series begins on October 19 in Philadelphia. "Can VoIP really lower business costs?" will explain the financial impact, technology and communications efficiencies of Voice over IP and is ideal for finance and IT executives.

Lyrio co-founder Paul Sewards said, "VoIP promises to open up exciting opportunities for businesses from improved service offerings to lowered operational costs. With The Power of VoIP Seminar Series, our goal is to help business decision-makers navigate through the maze of myths, contradictions and vendor messages."

pulvermedia announced that the VON Europe Autumn Conference & Expo will take place in Berlin, 6-8 November at the International Congress Center (ICC) in Berlin. This event marks the ninth year that the European IP communications industry has gathered at VON Europe to meet and map out the future, and the first time that pulvermedia has hosted a VON event in Germany.

Wintegra Inc., a fabless semiconductor company targeting the access infrastructure market, announced that it is participating in the WiMAX Forum PlugFest that is taking place this week. Wintegra is one of 19 industry-leading companies who are working together to advance interoperability. Wintegra is collaborating at the event with picoChip, whose WiMAX PHY is accepted as a de facto industry standard.

Be Here Corporation, the pioneer in immersive optics and imaging, announced at DEMOfall 2006 the beta version of TotalView, the first VoIP Collaboration Phone with full-room video. TotalView is the next essential business tool, delivering a view of the entire conference room that provides a natural experience as if all locations are sitting around the same conference table. Designed for multi-location meetings of three to four people in each location, TotalView delivers voice, video and data in a simple appliance that sits at the center of the conference table. Leveraging the enterprise's VoIP investment, TotalView replaces the conference room speaker phone with a single integrated device. Each person can connect their laptop to TotalView and individually control their camera view as well as the data they see and share, separately from the other meeting attendees. TotalView can be experienced live at DEMOfall 2006 Conference in San Diego, CA, September 25 - 27 at booth #61.

The Golden Group announced that ISPCON, "The Internet Industry Event," will shine its spotlight on the industry's hottest Internet services and technologies at this year's Fall event, including VoIP, Web 2.0, Managed Services, Municipal Wi-Fi, Open Source Opportunities, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and much more. Returning to the Santa Clara Convention Center from November 7 - 9, 2006, ISPCON FALL 2006 is expected to attract thousands of ISPs, Web hosts, MSPs, ITSPs, technologists, entrepreneurs and innovators, VCs, top corporate executives and more for three days of highly-charged conferences and networking opportunities.

CableLabs and EuroCableLabs have announced that 10 companies will participate in the EuroCableNET Pavilion that is part of the 2006 Broadband World Forum Europe conference and exhibition to be held 9-12 October in Paris at the CNIT La Defense.

Rosum Corporation, the leader in reliable location technology for public safety markets, announced that it would present at the E9-1-1 Summit at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment Convention on September 13.

Jon Metzler, Rosum's Director of Business Development, will present as a panelist for the "Innovative Technology Solutions for the Future" 1:30 p.m. session.