NETWORK COMPUTING MAGAZINE Gearing Up at Comnet 2000 for Its Fourth Successful Real-World Labs LIVE Event

PRNewswire
MANHASSET, N.Y.
Jan 12, 2000

CMP Media's Network Computing announced today that they are gearing up for Comnet 2000 in Washington DC January 25 - 27th with their Real-World Labs LIVE Demonstration of Voice over IP and Quality of Service. At the Real-World Labs LIVE Event, Network Computing's editors will be leading the discussion on technology and current issues, holding demonstrations, and testing several Voice over IP and QoS Technologies in the registration lobby of the Washington DC Convention Center. "This is a highly educational event for attendees and has consistently attracted standing-room-only audiences," said Kathryn Dopman, Director of Sales and Marketing/East, she continued, "Our attendees comments prove this with remarks like: "Every attendee should see this before they enter the exhibits" and "This overview demo was better than the tutorial I attended."

Based on the results of lab tests and workshops conducted over the past year, attendees of the event will learn:

  -- Where Voice over IP should be deployed
  -- What type of service they can expect
  -- Key questions to ask product vendors
  -- How to design networks that can reliably support Voice over IP and QoS

Extreme Networks, Shomiti Systems Inc. and Nx are sponsoring Network Computing's event. Each sponsor will be holding one-on-one demonstrations and distributing literature to attendees.

"Network Computing's Real-World Labs LIVE is instrumental in demystifying the complex issues that face today's service providers, e-businesses and enterprise businesses," said George Prodan, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Extreme Networks. "Sponsoring the event enables us to communicate to a well-informed audience on the importance of having a scalable, wire-speed switching infrastructure that reliably supports Voice over IP and Quality of Service."

"We are very excited to be a part of Network Computing's Real World Labs LIVE VoIP+QoS demo and look forward to a successful event. This is a perfect venue for us because it lets us showcase our Multi-QoS, which provides VoIP QoS measurement and verification in the Enterprise, Carrier Backbone and Local POP", said Shomiti's President and CEO, Bill Shaw.

Nx Networks will participate in the lab and demo with its recently debuted 3000 Series. According to Tony Morris, Nx Networks Vice President, Marketing "We are looking forward to being "live" in Washington. Nx Networks applauds this event and welcomes the chance to demonstrate the unique value and performance of our secure Internet Telephony solutions in a Real-World Lab."

Network Computing, published by CMP Media, Manhasset, N.Y., is the only networking publication providing in-depth, comprehensive, technology and service reviews from a real-world perspective to 220,000 IT Professionals-The Net Generation-biweekly. In addition, the publication consistently has the largest average-issue audience among all networking publications, according to Simmons and IntelliQuest. Network Computing received the 1997 Maggie Award for Best Computer & Telecommunications (trade) Publication, was a Finalist for the 1997 Computer Press Award for Best Online Site, and most recently, was a 1999 Neal Award Finalist.

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