I LOVE that slogan. LOVE it. Whoever thought of it deserves a Guiness on me. Or a Miller Lite.

But it’s a great slogan because it so aptly describes the present state of high-speed communication. It captures the paradigm shift that we’ve seen just the last few years: that the network indeed is made of endpoints (people), but it serves the COMMUNITY of people. As community has usurped point-to-point in our view of networking, the Internet and telecomm are at a crossroads not likely to be reversed over in the coming years. Everything is changing, accelerating, pulling more mental capital into the evolving, democratizing, business-model-bending world of accelerated social communication…

…and the heaviest hitters in this industry are all going to be gathered at EComm 2008, March 12-14 in Silicon Valley. Not going? You should be. The biggest players are sending their brightest thinkers to tell you how the world of speed communication is growing. So are the smallest players. Speeches will be given and toasts raised while backroom conversations will hatch ideas that may just transform your world, perhaps even shaking up the foundation of telecomm, a global infrastructure in which we’ve invested a trillion or more to get us where we’re at now. The question is–what’s the next trillion going to do?

Find out in March.