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AGC to Host Comms Infrastructure Webinar,

Boston, MA (January 16, 2008)—America’s Growth Capital, an emerging growth-focused, research, trading and investment banking partnership, announced today that they will be hosting “IP Essentials,” a webinar focused on recent trends in the communications infrastructure industry, on Friday, February 1st at 1:00 P.M. (EST). The event will be hosted by Catharine Trebnick, America’s Growth Capital’s Senior Research Analyst, and will feature participation by Jon Arnold, a leading independent voice on the telecom industry. The webinar serves as a follow-up to Catharine's recent publication of an industry white paper on the same topic. This is an invitation-only event. To request an invitation, click here or contact the AGC Sales and Trading team at 617-261-4111.

Webinar Details:

Title: “IP Essentials”
Date: Friday, February 1st, 2008
Time: 1:00 p.m. EST

Overview: Ubiquitous broadband access and mobility has evolved product functionality and expanded markets for Session Border Controllers (SBCs), Security Gateways, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), and Policy Management solutions. The IP/IMS network mantra has replaced VoIP and is a unifying architecture. This Webinar will discuss megatrends, the suppliers, the operators, and the role of evolving standards such as ATCA, 3GPP and IMS in adoption. This will be a general overview of the operators’ network which has evolved to a complex landscape that has moved beyond Softswitch and Media Gateways.

About Jon Arnold:

Jon Arnold is Principal of J. Arnold & Associates, an independent telecom analyst and marketing consultancy with a focus on IP communications. Previously, he was the VoIP Program Leader at Frost & Sullivan, where he was responsible for managing their subscription service for Global VoIP Equipment Markets. He is a regular speaker at VoIP and telecom conferences, including VON, Nextcomm, Internet Telephony, Pacific Telecom Council, NYSSA, Enterprise Networks, IT360 and the Canadian Institute.

Jon is frequently quoted in the business and trade press, radio and television, including Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, NYT, WSJ, Boston Globe, Financial Times, CNET News, Light Reading, Globe & Mail, Financial Post, Toronto Star, CBS Radio, Bloomberg Radio and BNN TV. VoIP News has included Jon on their 2007 Top 25 VoIP Blogs list, and his widely read IP Communications blog was recently rated the #4 VoIP blog. Jon produces a weekly podcast covering the Canadian IP communications market for Pulvermedia, and co-produces web summits focused on the IP sector with TMC. He is a member of the Microsoft Canada Unified Communications Vision Team, and the Portal Editor of IP Communications TV. Jon also serves as an Advisor to a number of emerging companies.

Key areas of expertise:
• VoIP vendors and market positioning – media gateways, softswitches, application servers, media servers, session border controllers, security;
• Residential market – VoIP, Peer-to-Peer, Triple Play, IPTV, FMC, mobile video, WiFi/WiMax, Web 2.0, social media;
• Enterprise VoIP – adoption trends by type and size of enterprise/SMB – IP telephony, Peer-to-Peer, Open Source, hosted/managed services, IP/SIP trunking, videoconferencing, telepresence.

Key focus areas:
• Independent industry analyst - retainer or project-based
• Strategic consulting - market positioning, competitive benchmarking, alliances/partnerships, customer satisfaction/retention, growth strategies, etc.
• Market research services - quantitative or qualitative
• White papers/position papers
• Due diligence/identifying M&A targets/facilitating financing
• Writing/speaking/presentations/moderating

For more information, please email Jon at jon@jarnoldassociates.com, or visit www.jarnoldassociates.com.