ISPCON LaunchPad

The people who put together the LaunchPad part of the show talk about what's new at ISPCON.

by Mike Cassidy and Tom McCafferty Managing Partners, ISP-Market [May 15, 2006]

Once again our semi-annual gatherings of ISPs, MSPs, ASP, MSSPs, HSPs, NSP, SSPs, journalists, and newbies is happening May 16th-18th in Baltimore.

ISP-Market's LaunchPad continues to serve as the introduction for some of the industry's newest and most innovative and viable technologies to the ISP Industry.

This year we are proud to introduce 7 new and emerging companies in the ISP-Market LaunchPad booth at ISPCON. Don't miss your chance to get a sneak peek at the future of products and services being developed for the ISP Industry.

Colosa Inc.
ProcessMaker® is a powerful new revenue-generating service for ISPs and hosting companies looking to offer a unique a value-added service to their business clients. If you don't know BPM, be sure to check them out.

Also see today's article, BPM for Small Business, Version 1.0.

Freeside internet Services Inc.
Freeside is the premier open-source billing, trouble ticketing and provisioning automation software for wired and wireless ISPs, VoIP and hosting providers and other online businesses. Freeside internet Services offers turnkey billing appliances, installation service and custom billing solutions. Freeside is new to the show but not new to this market.

People On Net Telecom
People On Net offers fully customized softphone VoIP telecom programs for ISPs and web communities, enabling them to freely distribute a value added softphone program so that all their members or subscribers may freely communicate via VoIP worldwide. This program is white-labeled as a free service directly from you to the client and is an extremely effective way to add members due to the viral nature of the softphone solution. The program also creates added revenue opportunities by offering regular phone and long distance services as well as innovative products related to the service! Don't let other VoIP providers access your members when you can provide a highly competitive service.

Looking for a customized/branded softphone? With all the bells and whistles? Stop by and check out People On Net..

Sutus
Sutus Inc. delivers solutions that make telecommunications and office networking simple and affordable for small offices. Their flagship product, Sutus Business Central, is a turnkey small office solution that includes a telephone system, e-mail server, office network, file sharing, printer sharing, internet firewall and more for offices up to 20 employees. You have to see the demo to believe this one. Your grandmother could set this system up, no kidding!

Synergy Site Manager
Synergy Site Manager integrates three modules—Synergy eContent Manager, Synergy eCommerce Manager and Synergy eMarketing Manager—in a single, fully scalable system that can grow with your business. Each module can stand alone or work as part of a complete solution. You can start with one module and add the others as you grow. Synergy eMarketing Manager makes a nice addition to the Content and e-Commerce tools.

Viyya Technologies Inc.
Viyya manages digital content and enables subscribers to personalize and customize the way they collect, process, and distribute real-time information. If you have any users who are news hounds, sports fans, online shoppers or stock market traders, they will love this technology.

Zimbra
Zimbra is an open source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration. Zimbra has used open source technologies to build a unified messaging platform that is really turning some heads with its ability to link e-mails to external apps like databases, plentiful mouseover tools, built-in calendar, and RSS reader and publisher.

Other exhibitors of interest:

AT&T Wholesale
What? AT&T is back? Great news

Aladdin Knowledge Systems
Take a look at their eSafe's solution for service providers

C I Host Total Broadband
CI Host is back with managed SSL remote access services

Delaware.Net Inc.
The folks at Deleware.net will unveil their hard work in the likes of StoreLogic and TeamLogic. Cool stuff! check it out.

Verio
Verio is back celebrating 10 years of service

New to the show:

• 121Media Inc.
• babyTEL
• Dash911 Solutions—E911 for VoIP
• Paxfire Inc.
• Privacy Networks
• Red Condor Inc.
• Switchvox
• TomatoVine

The exclusive environment at ISPCON makes the conference a perennial source of information, media coverage, and strong face to face business relationships and sparks major deals.

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