<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">State of Telecom is always a blockbuster, and this year is no exception. In 2012, as the WCIT approached, the focus turned to OTT video (<a href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/4258" target="_blank">see archive</a>) - primarily business models and policy, SOT2013 embraces and extends that to all cloud-based rich media, and the stress they put on networks. It is evident that the boffins at CITI see this as <u>the</u> critical issue for the future development of the telecom industry. The afternoon panel with <span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:19.58806800842285px">Susan Crawford, Stephen Conroy, and Henning Schulzrinne is not to be missed.</span><br>
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joly posted: "Today, Thursday September 26 2013, the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) will host State of Telecom 2013 at Columbus Business School NYC. This year this annual conference has the theme is 'Can Broadband Networks Handle Cloud-Based Video Media" </span>
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<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/citi/sot2013" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="CITI State of Telecom 2013" src="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/poster.png" style="max-width:100%;margin-bottom:12px;clear:both;float:right;margin-left:1em;padding:4px;background-color:white;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204)" width="279" height="420"></a>Today, Thursday September 26 2013, the <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/citi" target="_blank">Columbia Institute for Tele-Information</a> (CITI) will host <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/citi/sot2013" target="_blank">State of Telecom 2013</a> at Columbus Business School NYC. This year this annual conference has the theme '<strong><em>Can Broadband Networks Handle Cloud-Based Video Media? Technology, Business Models, Market Structure, And Policy</em>'</strong>, and launches a multi-year, multi-discipline project on “Cloud TV” which follows CITI’s work on ultrabroadband (UBB), broadband infrastructure deployment and investment, and “over-the-top (OTT) video.</p>
<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré will deliver a lunchtime keynote. Panelists include Susan Crawford, Stephen Conroy, and Henning Schulzrinne. The event will be webcast live via the <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/citisot2013" target="_blank">Internet Society Livestream Channel</a>.</p>
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<strong>What</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/citi/sot2013" target="_blank">CITI State of Telecom 2013</a><br>
<strong>Where</strong>: Columbia Business School<br>
<strong>When</strong>: Thursday September 26 2013 9am-5.15pm EDT | 0500-1315 UTC<br>
<strong>Agenda</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/citi/sot2013" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/citi/sot2013</a><br>
<strong>Webcast</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/citisot2013" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/citisot2013</a><br>
<strong>Twitter</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23citisot2013&f=realtime" target="_blank">#citisot2013</a></p></div>
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