Where Can You Turn for a Total Solution? As a total solutions provider, NEC understands the complexities today’s converged networks can present to your business. With our proven experience, we know what it takes to help you avoid traveling in the wrong direction. NEC delivers the most choices of IP communications platforms to meet the unique needs of your business. Add to that a strong portfolio of applications and services, and before you know it, your business is traveling in the direction of improved customer experience, enhanced employee productivity, increased revenue generation and maximum return on investment. Why go in different directions when you can focus on a Total Solution? Turn to NEC! www.necunified.com/tmc © 2006 NEC Corporation NEC and the NEC logo are registered trademarks of NEC Corporation. By Greg Galitzine Group Publisher and Editor-In-Chief, Rich Tehrani (
[email protected]) EDITORIAL Location, Location, Editorial Director, Greg Galitzine (
[email protected]) Associate Editor, Erik Linask (
[email protected]) Location TMC LABS Executive Technology Editor/CTO/VP, Tom Keating (
[email protected]) Let’s take a trip back to the late 1990s, right ART about the time when every thing connected to Senior Art Director, Lisa D. Morris Art Director, Alan Urkawich telecom was seemingly awash in money, and EXECUTIVE OFFICERS there was WAP, and with WAP there was the Nadji Tehrani, Chairman and CEO Rich Tehrani, President early promise of location-based services. Dave Rodriguez, VP of Publications and Conferences Who remembers this WAP enabled application? You’re walking down the street and, as Kevin J.