2011 Overview and Testimonials

Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2011 took place from 10-13 October in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The promo video can be viewed below, and speaker interviews are viewable on the IIR Telecoms YouTube Channel. Read on for reviews, testimonials and an overview of the 2011 attendance.




Testimonials:

"A great collection of sharp voraciously curious people gathered together sharing ideas in a very comfortable atmosphere.  It was lovely." - IETF

"It was a very good event. The event was well organized and the presence of Operators was very good, as they shared their real experience and challenges with the Carrier Ethernet technology and solutions."- Nokia Siemens Networks

"a very useful briefing on a topic of great importance to the industries suppliers, service providers and users" - INTUG

"TELUS have been delivering Carrier Ethernet services for over 10 years and are delighted to share experiences with service providers and solution vendors at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress" - TELUS

"MegaFon were delighted to speak during the keynote plenary at the Carrier Ethernet  World Congress and Transport Network Strategies and share their views on fixed-mobile convergence architectures.  We found the presentations, debates and networking extremely useful and look forward to attending and participating at further events in the series." - MegaFon
 

"As an enterprise end user of Carrier Ethernet it was great to attend the event and share my needs and wants from Carrier Ethernet for our business processes" - Sita

"Colt were delighted to be a lead operator at Carrier Ethernet World Congress and it was interesting to meet  service providers & solution vendors under one roof and gain insight in where the market is going and how the rest of the world see the reality of Carrier Ethernet" HB Colt"I enjoyed attending and participating at Carrier Ethernet World Congress.  As a service provider it was interesting to visit the different Carrier Ethernet  vendors in the exhibition and network with and hear interesting case studies from both vendors and other service providers" - Belgacom  

"It has been a great experience to come to the Carrier Ethernet World Congress and gain perspective on the key issues specific to the Carrier Ethernet marketplace such as:  mobile backhaul, cloud and carrier Ethernet services and the infrastructure alternatives for implementing them" - Current Analysis

"By attending the Carrier Ethernet World Congress every year, I come away with a clear view of the market and take away many ideas and solutions that our business can benefit from in the coming year" - Telecom Italia

"I find the show very interesting, it is very unique as it is very focussed on Ethernet and in that scenario there are a lot of attendees that are the key people that we would like to see and speak to" - Equinix

"What makes the show good is that there are a lot of service providers here and everyone is really looking for new solutions for Carrier Ethernet, the MEF participation here is very important" - RAD

"The Carrier Ethernet conference this year we really see the market move to the next stage and basically presenting the 3rd generation of Carrier Ethernet products here and this is a really mature audience that know what Carrier Ethernet is about, they have been looking for applications for it, they have found the applications and now it is a matter of optimising and find how this can help the wider built networks and the show reflects that" - Juniper

"I think Ethernet services have started to move on and previously it was discussion about topologies and different types of service, now it is about how you are serving the customer, it is about performance and monitoring, and really it is seeing Ethernet in the context of the wider piece." - Colt

"I think one of the fundamental take home messages is that people are working with MEF or real practical solutions" - TELUS

"The conference like every year is exciting, we see the 10th anniversary of MEF and the 7th year of MEF working with IIR and it is very satisfying to see people learning about Carrier Ethernet and the progress." - MEF  

"I think it is one of the best conferences I visit because here with this converged audience there is the meeting of the transport and carrier Ethernet industries and we can discuss the converged network of the future – traffic meets transport – the perfect conference" - A1 Telekom Austria

65 service provider companies:


2 Connect
Easynet
KDDI
Orascom
Telecom Slovenije
A1 Telekom Austria
Emirates Integrated
KPN
Pacnet
Telenet
Abovenet
EnBW Regional
Megafon
Slovak Telecom
Telenor
Algerie Telecom
Etisalat
Mila Ehf
Smile Telecom
TeliaSonera
Azercell Telecom
Eurofiber
MLL Telecom
Surfnet
Telus
Belgacom
exponential-e
MTN Nigeria
Talk Talk
T-Mobile
Broadnet
Everything Everywhere
Neotel
Tata Communications
True Corporation
BT
France Telecom
New Telco
TDC
UPC Broadband
Cable & Wireless
Global Crossing
NTT
Tele Greenland
Verizon
China Telecom
GlobalConnect
Omantel
Tele2
Virgin Media
COLT
GTS
Optimus
Telecom Argentina
Vodafone
CYTA Hellas
HL Komm
Orange Labs
Telecom Italia
Ziggo
Deutsche Telekom
Interoute

Telecom Luxembourg
ZON Multimedia

From 46 countries:

Algeria
Dubai
Luxembourg
Saudi Arabia
Argentina
Egypt
Macedonia
Slovakia
Australia
France
Mexico
Slovenia
Austria
Germany
Netherlands
South Africa
Azerbaijan
Greece
Nigeria
Spain
Barbados
Greenland
Norway
Sweden
Belgium
Iceland
Oman
Switzerland
Canada
India
Peru
Thailand
China
Israel
Poland
Turkey
Czech Republic
Italy
Portugal
UAE
Denmark
Japan
Russia
UK
Latvia


USA


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