Converge! Network Digest covers the convergence of broadband telecommunications networking through daily and weekly e-mail newsletters and our Web site. Our Coverage - The topics and companies we write about.
Our Publications - Our daily and weekly e-mail newsletters and Web site.
Our Company - Background on our company.Converge! Network Digest provides comprehensive, insightful coverage of the convergence of networking technologies. Here's how we provide you the Big Picture of this dynamic industry:
Daily Coverage of Networking Convergence in the Following Categories
Covering the next wave of IP-enabled communications providers and services Covering the networking equipment that drives the IP revolution. Covering WiFi, UWB, Bluetooth and mesh networking Covering WiMAX, IMS, HSDPA, CDMA-EVDO, UMA Covering the last mile bottleneck, including DOCSIS, DSL, FTTH and wireless access technologies. Covering the optical transmission facilities that underpin all of the above Covering the migration from TDM to VoIP, including news sorted by service provider, silicon and softswitching systems. Covering next gen IP video services, including content distribution models, delivery systems, set-top boxes, encoding and IMS integration. Covering the latest work at the IETF, CaleLAbs, The DSL Forum, The MSF and other fora. Covering the underlying silicon technologies that power all of the above Covering the start-up companies -- the source of innovation for the industry Covering the role of next generation satellites for delivering voice/video/data to global audiences Following the money trail, including mergers/acquisitions, funding, key people Covering the regulatory issues that will define the next wave of IP communications
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The Converge! Network Digest publications include our subscription-based daily and weekly e-mail newsletters, and our Web site.
Our e-mail newsletters deliver executive overviews of the most important developments in broadband networking to our subscribers. Each Daily issue (see an example) includes an average of 12-16 stories. For those who prefer to receive fewer e-mails, we offer a Weekly issue (see an example), which is published each Friday morning and includes all of that week’s stories from the daily newsletters.
Each newsletter includes all of the issue’s news in one document. Readers aren’t required to leave the newsletter and link to the Internet to get complete stories, which many subscribers appreciate when they are traveling and have intermittent Internet access. Free trials of our Newsletters are available to people who are considering subscriptions. We offer individual and corporate site license subscriptions.
Our Web site is available to our newsletter subscribers, as well as our non-subscribers. The Web site offers new daily news stories, complete archives of our past news, comprehensive company directories, conference and industry group listings, and serves as a portal to networking industry resources on the web.
Newsletter subscribers have access to much more news on a more timely basis than those people who are only users of our Web site. Our newsletter subscribers receive complete news coverage in every issue. Only a few of the stories from each issue become available on the Web site immediately after a newsletter is published. The complete set of stories becomes available in our online news archives one to four weeks after they are first made available to our subscribers.
Daily e-mail Newsletter Weekly e-mail Newsletter Web site
- Complete, comprehensive daily news delivered to your computer
- Direct links to extra online resources
- HTML or text formats
- Complete, comprehensive news of the week delivered to your computer every Friday morning
- Direct links to extra online resources
- HTML format only
- Complete, searchable news archives
- Comprehensive company directories
- Conference listings
- Industry groups and resources
- Limited daily news
Converge! Network Digest, originally known as ATM News Digest, has been published continuously on every US business day since April 1994.
Converge! Network Digest is owned and published by Converge! Media Ventures, Inc., an independent, privately owned, profitable business.
We have provided consistent, high quality, informative industry coverage since 1994, when our original publication, Madge ATM News Digest, was founded by Madge Networks as a marketing campaign addressed to the "1,000 top influencers" in the networking business. At the time, Madge Networks was a leading supplier of Token Ring adapter cards to major financial institutions, airlines, government agencies, universities and other large enterprises around the world. ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) was widely seen throughout the networking and telecommunications industries as the ultimate convergence layer for LANs and WANs. To build its brand equity in the next wave of networking technology, Madge Networks set out to create an independent newsletter addressed to the top influencers in the industry.
In 1997, the publication was spun-off from Madge Networks into an independent company under James E. Carroll, the newsletter’s founding editor.
Our publications were renamed to Converge! Network Digest in January 2000 to more accurately reflect our coverage of the entire broadband networking industry.
James E. Carroll,
Editor & Publisher
