Mountain View Alliance Announces 2008 Communications Event and Keynotes

(EMAILWIRE.COM, June 21, 2007 ) Mountain View, CA - Following a highly successful inaugural event in Southern California this past February, the Mountain View Alliance will take its MVA Communications Ecosystem Conference (MVACEC) to the South San Francisco Conference Center on March 11 and 12, 2008 and will feature two innovative Keynote presentations by the CTO of Ericsson and the CTO of Nokia Siemens Networks.The MVA, a consortium of open specification organizations in the communications industry, is excited to welcome Mr. Håkan Eriksson, CTO with Ericsson and Mr. Stephan Scholz, CTO, Nokia Siemens Networks as the Opening Keynote speakers. The MVACEC is an annual conference and exhibition that brings together suppliers and customers at all levels of the supply chain from the entire commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) ecosystem. In addition, the MVA is pleased to announce four industry leaders as its technical co-chairs of the event: Timo Jokiaho, Head of Platform Industry Initiatives at Nokia Siemens Networks; Magnus Karlson, Expert in Open Systems Software Architecture at Ericsson AB; Mark Kent, Head of Technology Strategy with British Telecom; and Paul Steinberg, Chief Architect of Motorola’s telecommunications wireless infrastructure products. “MVACEC ’08 is an important conference focusing on the issues surrounding the evolution of COTS implementations in the telecommunication and wireless infrastructure. It will address both the business and technical issues of adopting COTS-based systems and is the only conference that brings together all the players in the communications infrastructure ecosystem to discuss the adoption of open specifications based equipment,” said Mark Kent, Head of Technology Strategy for BT.In a statement from Jorge Magalhaes, Motorola’s Director of Marketing, Embedded Communications Computing summing up the inaugural event, “We were most impressed by the broad spectrum of service providers, network equipment providers and communications vendors represented by both the speakers and on the associated panels. There was a high level of engagement in the breakout sessions, which significantly contributed to the overall experience.”The Mountain View Alliance members include: the Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA), the Linux Foundation (LF), Open Communication Architecture Forum (OCAF), Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF), PICMG, RapidIO, SCOPE Alliance, and the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum). For information about participating in the MVACEC ’08, please visit www.mvacec.com. About the Mountain View AllianceThe Mountain View Alliance mission is to accelerate the adoption of platforms and building blocks based on the specifications of its member organizations. The goal of the MVA is to optimize the effectiveness of its member organization through coordinate marketing activities including joint trade show participation, joint meetings, and outreach activities. As the need arises, the MVA will also facilitate multi-faceted co-operation between its member organizations. Through such activities, the MVA aims to promote a diverse and thriving ecosystem of open-specification based components and platforms. For more information, go to www.mountainviewalliance.org. Mountain View Alliance, MVA, and Communications Ecosystem Conference and MVACEC are trademarks of the Mountain View Alliance.About the RTC GroupThe RTC Group, in conjunction with the Mountain View Alliance, is the producer of the MVACEC. RTC has been producing effective, quality industry events for over 20 years. In addition, the company publishes four trade magazines, RTC and COTS Journal, both standard-bearers in the industry, PKG and Portable Design magazines, now in distribution. RTC provides marketing and design services plus scalable custom event programs worldwide. The RTC Group is an international marketing services organization with corporate offices in Southern California. For more information: www.rtcgroup.com ContactRob Davidson, Mountain View Alliance 1.805.570.9575 davidson@picmg.orgSally Bixby, The RTC Group 1 503.274.8005sallyb@rtcgroup.com###This press release was issued through GroupWeb EmailWire.Com. For more information on press release distribution, go to http://www.emailwire.com.

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