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COMPTEL PLUS
Welcome to xchange TV! This edition offers a multimedia window
into news and views at the COMPTEL PLUS Convention
+ Expo, which took place Oct. 8-11 in Orlando. To watch
one of the video interviews xchange’s editors conducted
with industry leaders at the show, click below
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| COMPETITION |
 COMPTEL
Chairman Sherm Henderson discusses the uptick in the competitive
industry and the $64,000 question for competitive providers.
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here to watch. |
 Keynote
speaker Arunas Chesonis, CEO of PAETEC Communications
Inc., offers insight to the company’s pending
merger with US LEC, secrets to his company’s success
(the subject of a new book and college course) and the
challenges facing competitive providers.
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here to watch. |
 COMPTEL
President and CEO Earl Comstock assesses the COMPTEL PLUS
show, his first year at the helm and his top goals for
the coming year.
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here to watch. |
| LOCAL |
 Roland
Thornton, executive vice president of wholesale markets
for Qwest Communications International Inc.,
discusses the value of customer segmentation, new deliverables
for the end-to-end IP services and the company’s
new UNE-P replacement offer.
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here to watch. |
| METRO |
 Atlantic-ACM
CEO Judy Reed Smith announces the winners of the first-ever
Metro Carrier Excellence Awards.
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here to watch. |
| INTERNATIONAL |
 Virtual
network operator Vanco CEO Allen Timpany discusses globalization
and how the company’s new Web Portal, Vanco NetDirect,
speeds circuit quoting, ordering and provisioning around
the world.
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here to watch. |
Atlantic-ACM
CEO Judy Reed Smith announces the winners of the Global
Wholesale Carrier Excellence Awards.
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here to watch. |
| BACK
OFFICE |
 Chris
Smith, vice president of sales and marketing, and Maurice
Rosales, director of engineering and provisioning, discuss
Vertek’s new engineering-on-demand service.
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here to watch. |
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| WIRELESS |
 Dan
Lowden, vice president of business development for Wayport,
talks about the company’s foray into Wi-Fi for health
care.
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here to watch. |
 John
Krzywicki, vice president of marketing for Gigabeam discusses
recent contract wins, including one with DoD, validating
broadband wireless technologies as well as a new software
release that will support HD video streams.
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here to watch. |
| ETHERNET |
 Mehmet
Balos, president of the Americas and chief marketing officer
for first-time COMPTEL PLUS exhibitor Actelis, discusses
new CLEC wins for the company’s Ethernet-over-copper
products.
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here to watch. |
| VoIP |
 Vox
Communication’s Ron Harden, executive vice president
of sales and marketing, and Mark Richards, president and
CIO, chat about new vertical market opportunities for VoIP.
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here to watch. |
 Industry
icon Roy Wilkens comes out of retirement for the COMPTEL
PLUS show to get behind a new venture, Adaption Technologies,
which provides hosted IP telephony services to CLECs, ISPs,
cablecos and other service providers.
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here to watch. |
 Dan
Dearing, vice president of marketing for NexTone, talks
about new CLEC customers as well as the migration to VoIP
interconnection and a more Internet-like voice delivery
model.
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here to watch. |
Roland
Thornton, executive vice president of wholesale markets
for Qwest Communications International Inc., discusses
the value of customer segmentation, new deliverables for
the end-to-end IP services and the company’s new
UNE-P replacement offer.
Click
here to watch. |
| BPL |
 COMPTEL
Chairman Sherm Henderson, CEO of Lightyear Network Solutions,
talks about dynamic T1s, the need for alternative access
technologies and company’s forthcoming wholesale
BPL offer, FirstSpeed.
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here to watch. |
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