You are cordially invited to join us at APNOMS'98, the second Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium following the successful APNOMS'97 held in Seoul, Korea.

Rapid progress of technologies and sophisticated customer demands are driving telecommunication world into new paradigms where new and competitive services are furnished through multi-service provider, multi-vendor and heterogeneous network environment. Telecommunication industries are forced to face new paradigms and requested to realize end-to-end flow through faster, cheaper, and better services in a globally competitive market. Network operations and management are becoming key issues for business success as well as customer satisfaction.

The three-day symposium of APNOMS'98, taking up "Managing the New Telecommunications Paradigms" as its theme, features an outstanding program. Six keynote speakers will provide their vision and insight into new paradigms, and in panel session distinguished experts will discuss the new paradigms from different perspectives. In eight technical sessions we will have 40 high quality presentations with timely topics from both industry and academy points of view. The symposium will also offer six tutorials on current topics by experts on the subject. Exhibitions will feature both current and future products and ideas.

APNOMS'98 is one of global symposiums with presentations and participants from around the world, but will strongly reflect Asia-Pacific regions activities of telecommunication management issues. The symposium will give valuable opportunities to researchers, developers and practitioners by learning and sharing their ideas, views, technologies, and experiences on network operations and management.

The APNOMS'98 site, Sendai, is the biggest city of Tohoku block of Japan where you can enjoy historical, provincial and natural landscape sites in and outskirts of the city.

Come to APNOMS'98 for your value-added experience.