InterOp Vegas

Either you love or hate conferences and the associated exhibition floor. But for those of you that enjoy the going to talk to vendors and grabbing the occasional tchotchke, next week's InterOp show in Vegas is one that anyone in networking is sure to be familiar with.

I started attending InterOp shows back in 1991, and the show has certainly come a long way since then. The show reached its peak (in terms of size) back during the dot com boom, and hasn't really regained the exhibition size it once had, so this year's show is at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Even on a smaller scale, InterOp remains one of the important shows to keep track of what's happening in networking, and to a smaller degree, network security.

It's no surprise then that many key proxy vendors will be displaying their wares on the show floor, and some will probably have interesting announcements around their products. I'll keep tuned and let you know any interesting tidbits I see or hear about as a result of InterOp.