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Max Smetannikov
Senior Analyst, Networks & Media |
Max covers networks and infrastructure for The 451 Group's Networks & Media sector. His areas of analysis are currently focused on enterprise voice issues, such as VOIP, IP PBX evolution and SIP; wireless platforms and vendors; and investigation of wireline enterprise networking issues.
Prior to joining the company, Max was a Senior Analyst at Current Analysis, covering the business strategies of large telcos, network services such as IP VPN and frame relay, and networking technologies like MPLS and SDH/SONET. Before his time at Current Analysis, Max worked as a freelance writer and industry consultant, contributing to HostingTech magazine and a number of domestic and foreign trade, business and general-interest publications, as well as working with several leading consultancies on business and marketplace strategies within the IT and telecom industries.
In addition, Max was a senior writer at Inter@ctive Week, a standard-setting Internet business and technology magazine, where he covered the business models and technologies of the Internet boom era. He has also served as a senior editor of ISP Business News, a newsletter dedicated to describing the inner workings of ISPs for senior executives. Before Max was drawn into the IT and telecom industries, he wrote about multilateral lending and oil pipelines for the Bloomberg News service.
Max holds an MA in Journalism and Public Affairs from American University in Washington DC, and a BA in Communications, Journalism and Broadcast from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee and Moscow State University.
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