-----Original Message----- From: CommunicationsSociety@comsoc.org [mailto:CommunicationsSociety@comsoc.org] Sent: quarta-feira, 9 de Janeiro de 2002 13:45 To: conferencesa@comsoc.org Subject: Register today for NOMS 2002: Management Solutions for the New Communications World ============================================================================ =================== NOMS 2002 (IEEE/IFIP 2002 Network Operations and Management Symposium) 15-19 April, Florence, Italy Just click www.noms.org/2002 and you'll see why this year's program is not to be missed. This symposium will combine in depth technical sessions and panels with a demo/exhibition area showing the latest network and service management technologies and products. An excellent opportunity for meeting the world's top operations managers, developers and innovators. It will give you the perfect stage to voice your ideas and proposals in this crucially important area. In addition to an in depth technical sessions over two parallel tracks, NOMS 2002 will have a third track that will cover paper presentations and lively panel discussions on the operational aspects, industry experiences, and business aspects. It is the first time in NOMS history that we have combined into a single track all sessions with particular relevance to an industry audience. See http://www.comsoc.org/confs/noms/2002/Program1.html for the technical program. Look for major management issues for the emerging telecommunications environments: - B2B solutions - 3rd Generation mobility - Telephony over IP - Optical Networking - Content Delivery Networks - Component-based OSS. Coming from the four corners around the planet and representing all different sectors of the telecommunications industry, top-level Keynote Speakers will daily open the technical sessions with their forward-looking views, and a Distinguished Experts panel will provide the grand closing session. As part of the exhibit/patron program; The TeleMangement Forum will be sponsoring Catalyst Projects. Catalyst Projects offer companies a way of working together in a "living lab" environment to validate ideas. Catalyst projects provide a window into the future by showing what happens when real and prototyped products are linked together in an implementation scenario. For the first time in its long history, this global symposium will be held in Europe, right at the heart of the beautiful city of Firenze (Florence). Hotels and major Italian art masterpieces will be within walking distance from the Conference Center, providing the ideal combination of professional and personal experiences. Many of these masterpieces are the result of painstaking cooperative work whose operation and management efforts are shining through the results we can still be enjoying today. To all the colleagues that have experienced the previous NOMS/IM conferences and to all others who have not done so yet, a warm "arriverderci a Firenze": we are looking forward to seeing you all at NOMS 2002.