Joins IP & Telecommunications Technology Specialist as Principal Consultant

NEW YORK, NY – February 15, 2012 – New York-based IP Network Consulting (IPNC), an innovative IP and telecommunications technologies business consultancy headquartered in New York City, announced today that, effective immediately, Mr. Kenneth “Ken” Krupp has joined its global team as Principal Consultant. In his new capacity, he will work with clients in all areas of IT and Telecommunications and will establish IPNC’s presence in the western region of the United States, from the firm’s Seattle, Washington location.

Mr. Krupp’s addition is part of IPNC’s current plan to expand IPNC’s global presence and services capabilities. In his role as Principal Consultant, he brings invaluable insights supported by the extensive knowledge and expertise, garnered from 25-plus years of working with IT and telecommunications clients, operating in the three strategic business theaters.

“During the past year, Ken has proven himself to be an invaluable business resource, mentor, and friend. While operating behind the scenes, he has been a very proactive force, in assisting IPNC’s expansion into a global consultancy,” said Mr. Dennis Goodhart, IPNC Founder and Principal. “Ken also was very active in implementing an international TEM system, by finding and recruiting our international business partners and building those relationships.”

His present assignments include aiding clients with network inventories, bill audits, contract negotiations, and vendor management. Mr. Krupp’s IP/PBX and voice application design, installation, and maintenance expertise enables him to offer his comprehensive perspective, in all of his assessment projects.

At the start of his career, Mr. Krupp designed and launched one of the earliest comprehensive customer contact centers. This pioneering effort, for an international airline, included selection and implementation of PBX and call routing technology, defining and sourcing an array of specialized network services, and hiring and training the technical, customer service, and supervisory personnel.

“I am very pleased to be joining IPNC,” said Krupp. I believe that in this era of global community and global economics, we, as IT/telecom consultants, must have a global vision. As an independent consulting company, IPNC embraces this philosophy. This commitment, to a global presence, will allow us to provide a full range of services to our clients wherever they do business. I look forward to making my contribution in helping IPNC to attain excellence on behalf of our clients.”

Mr. Krupp’s career includes his attaining technical certifications, such as the full ITIL certification program and the Cadence Project Management certification, along with completing the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) “Train-the-Trainer” coursework. In support is his hands-on experience with systems from Siemens, NEC, Lucent, and Avaya, as well as stand-alone IVR, ACD call center, auto attendant, voice mail, and SIPxchange. In addition, he has done extensive work with exchange carriers, service providers, vendors, and corporations in twenty-eight countries on six continents.

His current industry roles include serving on the STC – Society of Telecommunications Consultants’ board of directors and chairing its International Affairs Committee. He has been a regular presenter at STC, the CCMI Mobile Explosion, and the CCMI Total Telecom Audit conferences. A regular contributor to The Voice Report, Mr. Krupp’s articles also appear in a variety of industry publications.

IP Network Consulting (IPNC) specializes in providing unique insights and independent analyses to the challenges businesses encounter, in finding, securing, implementing, and managing a broad range of IP and telecommunications technology. The company’s sound economic advice and technical solutions aid clients in reducing costs and optimizing business processes.

About IP Network Consulting (IPNC)

IPNC is an innovative IP and telecommunications technology consultancy based New York City since 2007. Our business advisory offers clients unique insights and independent analyses, sound economic advice, and technical solutions. Clients request our expertise in resolving their problems -  finding, securing, implementing, and managing today’s host of IP and telecommunications technologies, lowering costs, and optimizing their business process with cost-effective solutions using our C*A*N*D*O*I*T© Methodology. IPNC’s domestic and global partners, consultants and associates bring vast expertise gained from working in the areas of business, financial, information technology, telecommunications, risk management and software application development. Our disciplines include business development applications, engineering, technical support, audits, cost controls, and expense management. Please visit our website at www.IPNetConsult.com.

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As a sponsor, we have arranged for a discount for you and your contacts. Details about the conference and special IP Network Consulting rates are below.

Come and hear top industry experts discuss topics such as: “Web, Cloud, and Emerging Technologies”, “Mobility”, “NG 911″, “Unified Communications”, “Security”, “Policy and Regulatory”, and “Managing the Customer Experience.”

Telecommunications is a  multi-trillion dollar industry that directly effects the way you and your company does business. The conference, “Where Industry and Academia Meet,” will bring together technical professionals and executives from the data, web and telecommunications industry, standards bodies, government agencies, as well as the business community.

Real-Time Communications Conference & Expo at IIT

VoIP, Video, Mobility, Web, Grid, and more

October 4-6, 2011

Wheaton, IL (Chicago area)

Attend:

$200 for 2 days ($300 without discount)

$300 for 3 days with SIP Tutorial -or- NG 911 Tutorial ($400 without discount)

Conference details:

This 2-3 day multi-track conference attracts 200+ attendees, 50+ speakers and 30+ sponsors

Speakers from: Google, Skype, Microsoft, Nokia, Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, NEC, Avaya, Siemens and other industry leaders.

Tracks:

• Web, Cloud and Emerging Technologies
• Mobility
• Unified Communications
• Next Generation 911
• Customer Experience Management
• Policy and Regulatory Issues
• Security

IP Network Consulting registration instructions:

Visit – www.cpd.iit.edu/voipconference

Click – Register Now (blue bottom in the middle)

Complete the registration information for the regular rate – enter “IPNC” in the discount code and click “apply” and it will discount to $200.

If interested, add the “SIP Tutorial” for an extra $100.

Questions:

Visit www.cpd.iit.edu/voipconference or contact Scott Pfeiffer at pfeiffer@iit.edu or 630-682-6001.

Additional Sponsor Opportunities are still available.

Dennis first joined both of these organizations after receiving his FCC 1^st. Class Radio Telephony License. The license was kept current until the Federal Communications Commission stopped renewing First and Second Class licenses shortly after 1982. They were reissued as General Radio Operators Licenses. Like all previous commercial licenses, they were issued with renewable five year terms, but in 1985 certificates were granted or renewed as lifetime documents.

The IEEE is the world’s largest professional association with more than 400,000 IEEE members in over 160 countries around the world. IEEE members are engineers, scientists and allied professionals whose technical interests are rooted in electrical and computer sciences, engineering and related disciplines. The IEEE is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE’s highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.

NARTE became iNARTE; International Association for Radio, Telecommunications and Electromagnetics in 2007. iNARTE is a worldwide, non-profit, professional credentialing association which certifies qualified engineers and technicians in the fields of Telecommunications, Electromagnetic Compatibility/Interference (EMC/EMI), Product Safety (PS),  Electrostatic Discharge control (ESD) and Wireless Systems Installation.

August 1-2, 2011
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, USA

IP communications are evolving rapidly. Telephone and Network service providers are turning to IP-based solutions for the delivery of voice, image and video communications. Mobile operators are deploying all-IP networks replacing the circuit switched technology with packet switching based solutions.

With the transition towards IP there is also a shift in the way services are provided. Service-oriented and resource-oriented architectures have emerged and new methods have been developed to compose complex services by specifying high level information and processing flows between simple, basic components. IP communication services are moving onto cloud computing infrastructures creating new challenges for high-quality service delivery. In addition to traditional telephone services, new communications services and applications that are native to- and optimized for IP networks are being created. As a result, a large variety of communication services are being delivered on top of the IP infrastructure, while the amount of traffic being carried over it is reaching numbers unimaginable just a few years ago.

The evolution of IP communications is being carried forward by organizations and individuals representing a diverse set of fields and backgrounds – telecommunications, web development, electrical and computer engineering, information technology and data networking. The aim of the IPTComm conference is to serve as a platform for researchers from academia, research labs, industry and government to share their ideas, views, results and experiences in the field of IP-based telecommunication. IPTComm will include presentations of theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative systems, prototyping efforts, case studies, and advancements in technology.

The list of topics for IPTComm includes but is not limited to:

New services and service models

• Over-the-top services.
• Social networking and IP communications.
• Compositional services and model checking.
• Cloud-based IP communication infrastructures.
• Virtualization of IP communication services.
• Rapid application development frameworks.
• APIs and enablers for IP communication services.
• Browser-based IP communication services.
• Context-aware communication services.
• Peer-to-peer IP communication systems.
• Telepresence and immersive services.
• IMS and NGN services.

Management and Resilience

• Management of IP communications systems and networks.
• Overload management schemes for IP communications.
• Log files and log file analysis for IP communication systems.
• Scalability of large-scale IP communication systems.
• Traffic and QoS measurement of VoIP traffic.
• Self-tuning and self-monitoring IP communications systems.
• Service discovery.
• Energy consumption and energy management in IP communication systems.
• Incentives in P2P IP communication systems.
• Resilience in P2P IP communication system.

Security

• Identity management for IP communications systems.
• Anonymity and privacy in IP communications.
• Forensics and diagnostics in IP communication systems.
• Techniques to detect, mitigate and prevent SPIT, phreaking and vishing.
• Denial of service detection and prevention.

Mobile IP Communications

• Mobile IP communication services.
• Mobility in cloud-based IP communications infrastructure.
• Mobile P2P IP communication systems.

Miscellaneous

• The role of IP communications in the power grid.
• Open source development in IP communications.
• Research issues in vertical IP communication markets (e.g., privacy in the medical field, location in logistical field, etc.)
• Regulatory issues in IP communications.

AUTHOR INFORMATION
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Papers submission is handled by EDAS (http://edas.info/N10347).

IPTComm solicits both long and short papers. Long papers may be up to 12 pages in length, in two-column ACM conference format (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). All submissions must describe original research, not published nor currently under review for another conference or journal. The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Pending cooperation agreements, papers will also be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Short papers should be between 5 and 6 pages long. The aim of the short paper category is to help maintain a published record of work carried out as well as facilitate future affiliations and foster collaborative work. Short papers are subject to the same rigorous review process as full papers and follow the same submission process, schedule and expectation of presentation as the full papers.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission: Midnight March 14th, 2011.
Notification of acceptance: May 21st, 2011.
Final camera-ready submission: June 30th, 2011.

Proposals for Demonstrations and Technical Talks: Midnight May 8th, 2011
Notification of acceptance: June 6th, 2011.

Conference dates: August 1-2, 2011.

Conference Location: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Conference Co-Chairs
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Carol Davids – Illinois Institute of Technology
Joerg Ott – Helsinki University of Technology

TPC Co-chairs
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Zoran Despotovic – DOCOMO Euro-Labs
Volker Hilt – Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent

Steering Committee
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Gregory Bond (AT&T Research)
Dorgham Sisalem (Tekelec)
Saverio Niccolini (NEC Laboratories Europe)
Radu State (University of Luxembourg)
Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University)

TPC Members
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TBD.

The STC (Society of Telecommunications Consultants, Inc.) is an international organization of independent information and communication technology (ICT) professionals serving clients in all business sectors and government worldwide.

Founded in 1976 by industry-leading consultants with the purpose of setting high standards for their profession, the STC is based on three enduring principles:

• Consulting independence
• Highest professional standards
• Rigorous code of ethics

IP Network Consulting: Moving up

As of December 1st we have relocated our offices to:
501 Fifth Ave
Suite 300
New York, NY 10017

You can now leave business related messages for any of our consultants or staff at our general voice mail box (212) 905-5095

In need of a certified IT Audit? IP Network consulting now offers certified CISA® IT audits.

Are you overpaying on your phone bill? We now offer contingency Telephony audits. If your monthly recurring phone bill (equipment and carrier charges) is more than $5,000.00 a month let our experienced consultants perform a contingency audit at no initial cost to you.

Network no longer meeting your needs? Need to upgrade to IP, SIP, VoIP, build a cloud network? Our experienced network engineers are ready to help you.

That old legacy PBX not cutting the mustard anymore? Need to implement Unified Communications functionality? We are experts in migrating your current TDM switch to IP, VoIP, SIP, and Hosted solutions.

To learn more about these and all of the services IP Network Consulting offers please call our offices at ( 212) 905-5095 or e-mail us at info@IPNETCONSULT.COM. We look forward to hearing from you.

For more information please call me or visit;
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