CEC 2007 - Las Vegas
Sun Customer Engineering Conference was in Las Vegas this year. The sin city was swarmed by 4000 Sun engineers and partners.
Its said that "everything that happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas". Not this time though. I will cherish the memories of CEC 2007 for long time to come. Especially because it was my first CEC. Every experience, hearing great minds live, breakout sessions, atmosphere and meeting new people, was great. I was also co-speaker for one of the sessions in the conference with my colleague from Germany, Olaf Schnapauff. We spoke about how India has become a Red Shifting nation and compared the Indian telecom with that of more established markets like Europe. It was a good seesion but we could have done better in terms of adding more technological factors for the two markets.
My friend Ashish, who lives in Indianpolis, joined me at Vegas after the conference. Me, Ashish and my colleague Malhar, drove to Grand Canyon. We first went to the Western rim of the Canyon and experienced the Skywalk. This walk is over a transparent glass bridge over the rim. You have to take this walk to believe how terrifying it is to see 4000 feet down straight through the glass. It took us more than couple of minutes to gather strength to take the first step over the bridge. We watched the beautiful sight of sun going down at western rim. Then we drove near the northern rim and spent the night at a motel. We had heard so much about the sunrise at the northern rim that it took little effort to wake up at 4 AM and drive to the sunrise view point (Mather Point) at the northern rim. Although it was very beautiful sunrise but I was expecting something more. May be my expectations were set higher than the normal. We visited couple of more viewing points at the norther rim. The canyon was the most majestic thing I have ever seen in my life. This trip will live in my memory forever. Thanks to ashish, without him it was not possible. i'm sure Malhar (our official photographer for the trip) will be posting the pictures that he has taken. I will post a link to it when it comes!!
Its said that "everything that happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas". Not this time though. I will cherish the memories of CEC 2007 for long time to come. Especially because it was my first CEC. Every experience, hearing great minds live, breakout sessions, atmosphere and meeting new people, was great. I was also co-speaker for one of the sessions in the conference with my colleague from Germany, Olaf Schnapauff. We spoke about how India has become a Red Shifting nation and compared the Indian telecom with that of more established markets like Europe. It was a good seesion but we could have done better in terms of adding more technological factors for the two markets.
My friend Ashish, who lives in Indianpolis, joined me at Vegas after the conference. Me, Ashish and my colleague Malhar, drove to Grand Canyon. We first went to the Western rim of the Canyon and experienced the Skywalk. This walk is over a transparent glass bridge over the rim. You have to take this walk to believe how terrifying it is to see 4000 feet down straight through the glass. It took us more than couple of minutes to gather strength to take the first step over the bridge. We watched the beautiful sight of sun going down at western rim. Then we drove near the northern rim and spent the night at a motel. We had heard so much about the sunrise at the northern rim that it took little effort to wake up at 4 AM and drive to the sunrise view point (Mather Point) at the northern rim. Although it was very beautiful sunrise but I was expecting something more. May be my expectations were set higher than the normal. We visited couple of more viewing points at the norther rim. The canyon was the most majestic thing I have ever seen in my life. This trip will live in my memory forever. Thanks to ashish, without him it was not possible. i'm sure Malhar (our official photographer for the trip) will be posting the pictures that he has taken. I will post a link to it when it comes!!
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