In Los Angeles this week, a conference and tradeshow focusing on technologies and strategies aligned to take advantage of the "New Phone" world was covered over a three day period. INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO managed by Technology Marketing Corporation, attended mostly by technically directed operatives, was extremely informative for those who might be familiar with some of the niche communication applications they use every day but may not have been exposed to the whole picture of phone based communications and systems. Discussions about matching up analog signals with digital, open systems verses proprietary systems, value-added partnerships, small office / home office, scalability, unified communications, access points, enterprise mobility, internet protocol television (IPTV), and more were engaged and further explored on how all of this can be applied to the internet as a business proposition for profit. It is an exciting time for the world of business phone systems in that many systems in place have a heavy investment in infrastructure yet the business operations that own them, want to take advantage of the capabilities the internet can offer.