Nortel Executive to Keynote INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO Fall 2005; Atul Bhatnagar, VP & GM of Enterprise Data Networks, to Address Thousands at Premier VoIP Conference at Los Angeles Convention Center

Business Wire, Oct 4, 2005

NORWALK, Conn. -- Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R)) announces today that Atul Bhatnagar, Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Data Networks Division at Nortel(a) has agreed to deliver a keynote address at its INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO Fall 2005, on October 24-27, 2005 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Mr. Bhatnagar's address, which is open to all registered attendees, will take place Wednesday, October 26th, at 9:45 a.m. PST. Registration for the conference is now open at http://www.itexpo.com.

The INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, held since 1999, is the world's largest and best-attended VoIP trade show. Last February, TMC's INTERNET TELEPHONY attracted over 6,200 buyers and sellers of IP Telephony products and services. For this upcoming October show, TMC projects total attendance to exceed 7,500.

With more than 20 years of experience in the computing and communications industry, Atul Bhatnagar manages the Nortel business unit that designs and markets a full range of Secure Ethernet Switches, Enterprise Routers, Secure WLAN Solutions and innovative IPSEC/SSL VPN offerings. His team recently introduced an innovative Application switching solution for high density Blade Servers. This portfolio is defining next generation scalable and resilient IP infrastructure for emerging voice/video/data convergence.

"As a leader in infusing information security and resiliency in communications, including our SIP-based solutions, Nortel is excited to be featured at INTERNET TELEPHONY, the world's largest trade show focused solely on VoIP," states Mr. Bhatnagar. "Nortel is honored to present and discuss the latest industry innovations with the thousands of other enterprises, service providers, government organizations, resellers and developers that attend INTERNET TELEPHONY."

"Nortel's successful deployment of its next generation, SIP-based platforms makes multimedia applications accessible to drive 'Anytime, Anywhere, Any device' capabilities in a secure environment," continues Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Conference Chairman for INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO. "TMC is certain Nortel's cost effective, switching solutions for both enterprises and service providers will offer our INTERNET TELEPHONY attendees a further education in communications innovations."

Tehrani added, "I am especially happy that Nortel is providing the infrastructure and services needed to deliver on the promise of Just in Time Communications -- the concept of squeezing inefficiency from communications."

In addition to Mr. Bhatnagar's address, the conference features keynotes by former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell, Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom and executives from Yahoo!, AOL, Cisco Systems, NEC, Microsoft, Digium, Toshiba, Lucent Technologies, Juniper Networks, Aculab, Vonexus, Siemens, Inter-Tel, Deloitte & Touche, BrandX and Interactive Intelligence.

Registration for the conference and trade show is now open: http://www.itexpo.com. Vendors interested in exhibiting or sponsoring should contact Dave Rodriguez immediately at 1-203-852-6800, ext. 146 or e-mail drodriguez@tmcnet.com.

Press inquiries regarding Atul Bhatnagar's address can be directed to Mostafa Razzak at 23-31 Communications: 646-442-3361 or email m.razzak@23-31.com.

About TMC(R)

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes two print magazines: Customer Interaction Solutions, and Internet Telephony; five digital publications, SIP Magazine, Speech-World, WiFi Telephony Magazine, VoIP Developer, WiMAX Magazine; and the online publications TMCnet, Planet PDA Magazine, WiFi Revolution, Alternative Power and BiometriTech. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC also produces The VoIP Developer Conference, Speech-World Conference, IP Contact Center Summit and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMCnet publishes more than 20 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit http://www.tmcnet.com.

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