Market Pressure to Solve Device Management Issues Drives Service Providers, Industry Bodies, and Vendors to Summit.

Low Cost Device Deployment and User Support focus for TM Forum’s Device Management Summit.

Morristown, NJ – June 23th, 2008 – The TM Forum Device Management Summit on June 24th will bring together major industry bodies, service providers and vendors for the first time to discuss critical management issues in deploying and managing user devices.

It is estimated that there could be up to 1 trillion devices in the market within 15-20 years. That number of devices will be unmanageable within today’s methods, therefore a more common approach must be forged across mobile, home and office devices.

TM Forum’s Device Management Summit, co-located with Parks Associate’s CONNECTIONS event in Santa Clara, CA, will provide an across the industry update on how these challenges are being addressed today, and a forum to voice issues and to discuss solutions for the future. This unique gathering of the TM Forum, OSGi Alliance, Home Gateway Initiative, DSL Forum and the Device Management Forum, gives all concerned in the industry with the information, potential solutions and ability influence solutions to this growing issue.

Key industry vendors and services providers that include Cisco, Comcast, Westell and 4HomeMedia are also participating in the event.

For further details on the Summit go to www.tmforum.org/devicemanagementsummit

About the TM Forum
With almost 700 member companies in 72 countries, the TM Forum is the world’s leading trade consortium focused on enabling digital services. Serving the information, communications and entertainment industries, the Forum provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the way that services are created, delivered and charged. Members include the majority of the world’s service providers, network operators, software suppliers, equipment suppliers and systems integrators.

The Forum currently facilitates over 80 technical projects and provides extensive training, conferencing and information services to its members. Through its initiatives to help providers move to low cost, high quality ‘lean’ processes, the Forum helps its members automate business processes and work seamlessly across various parts of the service delivery chain. The organization provides industry benchmarks, guidebooks, process and software frameworks and downloadable software standards. These give service providers the direction and specific roadmaps to achieve much greater business efficiency and operational flexibility.

For further information regarding the TM Forum, related programs such as the Prosspero initiative and its Management World conferences, please visit www.tmforum.org

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