INCOMPAS Spring 2017 - Day 1 Show Daily

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DAY 1
When it comes to networking, the 2017
show offers an enhanced format that
brings even more of the meeting rooms to
the exhibit hall, along with the networking
spaces, to make the floor the center of
action. Most of the sessions will take place
on the show floor as well. In tandem,
INCOMPAS has introduced a new mobile
app for this show that lets users schedule
their meetings and attendees reserve specific
Deal Center tables to make it easier to meet
up at the show.
This year’s event also features an
expanded Buyer’s Forum, which “I’m espe-
cially excited about,” Pickering said. “It was
first launched at the INCOMPAS Show last
fall, and now we are expanding that program
to include open times on the show floor to
meet buyers attending the show.”
Buyers will be available to meet with show
attendees at the HUB area of the show floor on
Tuesday and again on Wednesday, from 10:30
a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Several buyers also will be
participating on a panel at 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday,
immediately following the open meeting time.
On the attendee perk front, INCOMPAS has
infused even more energy and fun on the show
floor, featuring a refreshment station where
attendees can start their day with a Bloody Mary
or coffee and beignets. This goes with what else
is new for the spring show: Its location, in the
historic and unique town of New Orleans.
Beers with Peers will again be held on
Tuesday afternoon from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., and
the Big Easy Bash closing reception will be
held at Generations Hall on Wednesday from
5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., just a short distance from
the Convention Center.
“While we hope our attendees get out and
enjoy the rich history and culture New Orleans
has to offer, we also want to see everyone
at the Morial Convention Center – just a few
steps away from the Hilton Riverwalk, our
host hotel,” Pickering said. “We couldn’t be
more pleased with our plans for the show,
and we look forward to hosting a productive
and fun event for our members, sponsors and
attendees alike.” p
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(CABS Story, continued from page 5)
a FGD or a T1 order. An access service
request (ASR) kicks the order off and the
CABS system is there ready to receive it
and read it. Whether the order is a move,
an upgrade or disconnect, the system reads
the ASR, adjusts the on-board inventory,
creates the fractional charges from the order
date and renders the bill in a machine read-
able CABS format, on time. If you are doing
it any other way, you have money falling on
the floor, disputes, rework, slow-pays and
most likely disgruntled customers.
What about “Type 2” circuits, i.e., buying
a circuit from one carrier to sell to another
carrier? That creates a CABS-in CABS-out
situation (or should). If you aren’t reconciling
your “buy circuits” to your “sell circuits” then
you have more guaranteed money on the
floor. The right, integrated order-to-inventory-
to-bill platform or vendor can make that
reconciliation a real-time reality.
But there is another way to complicate
and reduce margin assurance even further,
and that is to use a different vendor and
system for every process, with no integra-
tion, metrics, subject matter expertise or
oversight. As ludicrous as that may sound,
you’d be surprised how real an issue it is
and how ever-present among carriers, espe-
cially newer entrants, it remains.
Is your company “that company?” Are
the process smokestacks so far apart that
the left hand has no idea what the right
hand is doing? Maybe the right vendor
and experts, with the right tools and expe-
rience, and with the knowledge of the
complete voice margin assurance picture,
could pull all of the pieces together.
Imagine the possibilities, the optimization
and the incremental savings on just the
cost of those processes themselves by
rolling them up to a single provider. p
Jones is CEO of Data Tech (CABSPros –
Booth 314). Contact him at
or 706-698-3282, or Ron Twine at
for ideas or assistance
on this issue.
CSF Introduces
New Texting
Capabilities
CSF (Booth 308), a provider of toll-free
provisioning and texting, is introducing new
texting capabilities enabled through its
recent acquisition of Aerialink.
CSF acquired Aerialink to enhance its toll-free
texting capabilities and to further enhance its 8MS
Cloud offering. The combined offering will now be
able to deliver RespOrgs and carriers a more robust
solution to meet their enterprise customers’ needs.
Aerialink’s real-time mobile messaging platform
offers a range of SMS, MMS, and location services
via APIs and applications.
CSF is showcasing the latest features and capa-
bilities of 8MS and 8MS TeXT, and offering free
hands-on product training sessions at its booth. It will
also demonstrate its least-cost routing (LCR) capa-
bilities, which CSF said saves carriers 20 percent or
more on their toll-free call originating traffic.
“We are excited about the addition of Aerialink,
and the continued evolution of the 8MS Cloud plat-
form,” said Frank Lauria, executive vice president
of sales and business development at CSF. “We are
glad to attend another INCOMPAS show this year,
and are looking forward to meeting with current
clients, as well as building new relationships.” p
Unite Private Networks
Expands to Allen, Texas
U nite Private Networks (UPN) has announced
another network expansion in the Dallas/Fort
Worth metro.
The new infrastructure extends throughout Allen,
along the Route 121 and 75 corridors, and connects
the network to downtown Dallas, adding to UPN’s
nearly 800-mile fiber network in the metro. Business
customers will now have access to dark fiber or lit
services that are scalable from 100Mbps to 100Gbps,
as well as a suite of other products.
“This buildout adds to other recent network expan-
sion activities in the broader Dallas/Fort Worth metro,
including Frisco and Plano,” said James Edison,
regional sales director for UPN. “The fiber expansion
will allow triple-path redundancy for Allen businesses
and data centers back to UPN’s core network. This
gives our customers the ability to connect to the
extensive list of data centers on the UPN network
in Dallas, as well as access to metro Ethernet, dark
fiber, internet, wavelengths and custom-built options,
all powered by a low-latency carrier-grade, 100
percent fiber-optic network.” p