The Preview - MSP World, Las Vegas - November 2009

TA's here in Las Vegas for MSP Alliance's MSP World event. Not much to show you yet but a tour of our very nice room at the Venetian. (Click the video below). Here's a link to the program for the event. Here's a link to their Twitter page.

TA's goal here at the show is to learn the answer to the following three questions:

1. Is it realistic that MSPs will take on carrier services and sell them to their IT customers in a volume large enough to make MSPs a credible channel for carrier services vendors?

2. Is it realistic that MSPs would make good partners with telecom agents to share or trade leads with?

3. How difficult or easy is it for telecom agents and master agents to pick up the skills and resources necessary to be MSPs themselves and offer MSP services to their existing carrier services customers.

To get conversations started TA has set up a web page at MSPTEL.com where you can see the newsletter we'll be handing out at the show to stimulate conversation.

TA thanks our three co-op sponsors that we're working with here: A+ Conferencing, PAETEC and Telarus. Their support of this exploratory effort will help TA figure out if MSPs are "the real deal" when it comes to being a viable carrier services distribution channel or "nothing to be concerned about".

Click the video below if you want to see what a cool $139 Las Vegas "suite" looks like.