World's Largest IP Communications Event Returns to Los Angeles Convention Center in September

NORWALK, Conn. -- Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has released the preliminary conference program and keynote schedule for its upcoming INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO West 2008. Highlighting this year's educational program is a series of certification courses offered through their TMC University division. The conference and trade show is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, September 16-18, 2008.

The entire conference program and schedule can be viewed at the event's Web site, http://www.itexpo.com.

New this year are in-depth certification courses covering Unified Communications, IP Network Security, Open Source Communications, and FMC/Mobility. TMC University courses repeated from previous ITEXPOs include SIP and Microsoft OCS.

In addition, conference tracks on the program feature specific content that focuses on the needs of Service Providers, Enterprises, Government Agencies, SMBs, and Resellers. Each educational track was hand-selected from hundreds of proposals submitted by IP communications experts from around the world.

Conference tracks at INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO West 2008 include:

* TMC University: Unified Communications

* TMC University: Microsoft OCS

* TMC University: FMC/Mobility

* TMC University: Open Source Communications

* TMC University: SIP

* IPTV Workshop (for carriers)

* Unified Communications

* Service Provider Solutions

* VoIP for SMBs

* Hosted Communications

* Call Center 2.0 at INTERNET TELEPHONY

In addition, TMC announced that the following keynote speakers will appear at the event:

* Bryan Martin, Chairman & CEO, 8x8, Inc.

* Michael Tessler, President & CEO, BroadSoft, Inc.

* Rodrigo Madanes, Chief Product Strategist, Skype

"INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO is the best-attended IP Communications event in the world," said Rich Tehrani, TMC president and conference chairman. "The strength of this event is, and always will be, the incredible opportunity to learn. Our team of editors INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine and TMCnet spent months assembling the most relevant curriculum that will be taught by the highest caliber faculty. I honestly believe the conference's educational content is the best available, and is the strength of this one of a kind event."

The conference program features educational sessions, presented by foremost experts, on the most relevant topics like unified communications, IMS/FMC, IPTV/IP video, open source, mobile and wireless solutions, QoS, SOA, and more.

In addition to the nearly 100 breakout sessions in the conference program, there will be several workshops offered to all ITEXPO attendees.

These workshops include:

* Voice Peering Fabric Workshop

* Ingate's SIP Trunking Workshop

* ECA's Reseller Live Workshop

Tehrani added, "The scope and depth of content at this event is so impressive to me. Every single important topic is covered under one roof."

Registration for the conference is now open at www.itexpo.com. For additional information regarding exhibit and sponsorship opportunities, please contact Dave Rodriguez at (203) 852-6800, ext. 146 or via e-mail at drodriguez@tmcnet.com

Press inquiries should be directed to Mostafa Razzak, JMR Worldwide: (646) 442-3361 or m.razzak@jmrworldwide.com.

About TMC([R])

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 3,500 most visited Web sites in the world by Quantacast, an independent Web traffic ranking site, TMCnet serves as many as three million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, and Call Center 2.0 Conference. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.