Interop Las Vegas 2005 Press Coverage
Here's what the press said about Interop Las Vegas 2005, which included 350 press and analyst attendees:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050905-interop.html?net
A smaller venue and larger turnout last week helped infuse Interop 2005 with long-absent excitement about the network industry. The event drew 17,000 attendees and featured a ton of wireless and security products, as well as news that a second show - Interop Fall 2005 - will be coming in December to the Jacob Javits Center in New York.
Interop Hoopla May Signal Return of IT Market
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1812948,00.asp
While financial analysts on Wednesday downgraded their IT growth forecasts a point or so, spending looked up on the floor of the annual Interop show here. According to Ben Stricker, a spokesperson with show organizer Media Live International Inc. of San Francisco, the company expects about 17,500 attendees this year, up from last year's 16,000, and has 375 exhibitors, up from 340 last year. He also said that the company expects that growth will be strong enough to support a second show in December 2005.
Exhibitors at the Interop show clearly shared the organizer's view of the renewed strength in the IT industry. Booths were clearly upgraded from last year and there were more activities that previous exhibitors had dismissed as frivolous. Such attention-getters as climbing walls and football stars appeared on the show floor. Yankee Group Senior Research Analyst George Hamilton said such expenditures are a sure sign that companies are optimistic about the outlook for their industry. He said that just the willingness by exhibitors to hire models and sports figures to promote them shows that money was flowing back.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/042505-interop-planner.html
While executives plan to spend, they still have to be careful about just where their dollars are going. This year's NetWorld+Interop offers a real-world look at many of the most tempting technologies. Wireless, collaboration technologies, VoIP and the increasing Webification of business applications are all placing new demands on corporate networks. The plus side is that there is no shortage of innovation when it comes to addressing these growing network needs. The downside is that sometimes it's hard to know which of those technologies is right for you.
"There are new application demands and I think a lot of companies are finding that their infrastructures are not capable of delivering so they're having to re-evaluate and in some cases re-architect their infrastructures. In doing so, they have to make the right decisions the first time," says Steve Wylie, N+I director of content. "N+I becomes the safe place to make those decisions in context because they can see new technologies as part of a working system."
The State Of The WLAN World
http://www.mobilepipeline.com/163103725
This year's spring Interop show signaled a return of sorts to the show's roots. With NetWorld no longer part of the show title, there seems to be clearer recognition that a conference focusing on network infrastructure and interoperability is still a good idea. At this year's show, Wi-Fi infrastructure was front and center, with lots of prospective buyers looking for solutions.
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/050905edit.html
Attendee traffic was thick, and vendors were pleased with the buyers they were seeing. In fact, show organizer MediaLive is confident enough in the show's direction to make another go at the East Coast: It announced it will stage another Interop this December in New York. The last East Coast Interop was in Atlanta in 2001.
One of the standouts at this year's show was the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) interoperability demonstration. The InteropNet Labs VoIP network linked SIP gear from 25 vendors and supported four-digit-extension dialing.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,,1813512,00.asp
The demand for wireless connections shows no signs of abating for enterprise and small-business customers alike. Some of the growth in the industry was evident Wednesday on the floor of the annual Interop infrastructure show here, as vendors demonstrated a wide range of wireless add-ons and services.
http://www.internetweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=162100331
Network security, wireless communications, and new ways of using technology to improve business processes will be among the hot topics May 1 to May 6 when the nation's largest annual gathering of buyers and sellers of networking technology takes place in Las Vegas. The 20th annual NetWorld+Interop conference and exhibition, which is being renamed Interop, will feature more than 350 equipment vendors and service providers on the show floor, a host of seminars, discussions, and debates, and a series of keynote speech by industry leaders. More than 85 vendors have disclosed plans to introduce new products and services at the show. And the conference program will focus on six of the hottest technology trends today, including network infrastructure and services, wireless, security, performance, VoIP and collaboration, and data management and compliance.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1814091,00.asp
Over its 20-year history, Interop has worked its way thematically up the OSI seven-layer network stack. Gone are the days of nerdy engineers struggling for hours to get two incompatible e-mail systems to talk to each other. The show's centerpiece network structure now features super-high-bandwidth speeds; its designers have aspirations of building the real-time enterprise...
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/25/HNinterop_1.html
Networld+Interop, the long-running networking trade show that takes place next week in Las Vegas, is dropping its unwieldy name for one that's strangely familiar: Interop. The show started as Interop in 1986, in Monterey, California, and was a gathering for engineers to plug their data WAN (wide-area network) gear together and establish interoperability, said Lenny Heymann, current vice president and general manager of the show. In 1994 it merged with Novell's LAN-oriented Networld show and took on the combined moniker. The current presenter, MediaLive International, decided the old name worked once again.
"What we're talking more about in the show these days is interoperability between infrastructure, devices, applications and people," Heymann said. "'Interop' when the show first started was about making the network talk to itself." Highlights of this year's show will include wireless LANs, VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol), security, 10-Gigabit Ethernet and network storage, he said.
http://www.techworld.com/security/features/index.cfm?
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The Interop show, formerly Networld+Interop, begins this week in Las Vegas, and along with the new name comes a flurry of announcements from vendors aiming to solve various networking security issues. "It's not a surprise that we'll be seeing a number of new security products at the show because securing the network is a prime concern for IT managers," said Joel Conover, a principal analyst at Current Analysis.
http://www.crn.com/sections/infrastructure/infrastructure.jhtml?
articleId=162101327&_loopback=1
A variety of vendors at this month's Interop Las Vegas 2005 conference showcased products that focused on technology convergence, giving solution providers some new options as they tackle networking and infrastructure solutions.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;
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A variety of vendors at this week's Interop 2005 conference are showcasing new products that focus on technology convergence, giving solution providers more options as they tackle networking and infrastructure solutions.
http://www.computerworld.com/networkingtopics/networking/story/
0,10801,101611,00.html?SKC=networking-101611
Network security became a major topic of debate at last week's Interop conference, with differences of opinion emerging among networking vendors, service providers and users over where security tools should be applied and who should provide them.
IT Leadership: More Than Just Bits (CIO Bootcamp article)
http://www.next-gendatacenterforum.com/document.asp?
doc_id=73100&site=ndcf
Interop -- The IT industry is facing a looming leadership crisis caused by lack of business skills, according to attendees at the CIO Bootcamp event that kicked off this year's Interop conference in Las Vegas. Addressing over 100 CIOs and IT managers from across the US, Thornton May, the executive director of the IT Leadership Academy warned that the next generation of IT chiefs lack the requisite mix of skills needed to make the step up to Chief Information Officer.
Interop Expands to Two Shows Per Year
http://www.xchangemag.com/tdhotnews/55h414311699072.html
MediaLive International Inc. this week said it has added a new Interop event, Interop New York, joining the Interop Las Vegas show as the event series that showcases the interoperability of the converged network with infrastructure, applications and devices. "We're at an exciting time in the IT industry, as the IT market is growing rapidly and customer needs are changing," said Lenny Heymann, Interop vice president and general manager. "A single event, held once every 12 months, no longer meets the information needs of enterprise buyers, nor is it adequate to achieve the marketing objectives of the industry's leading vendors. The expansion of the Interop brand to the East Coast now gives vendors an opportunity to meet with a large number of buyers in one of the biggest IT markets in the United States."
Interop 2005 Las Vegas - Better than Expected
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article117-page1.php
We have to admit that while our expectations were low for Interop this year, that the show exceeded our expectations. The show was busier than expected-not can't-get-through-the-aisles busy-but with enough breathing room for vendors to spend quality time with the people they wanted to see.
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