Westell Technologies, leading broadband products, outside plant telecommunications equipment and conferencing services provider, recently announced that its subsidiary firm ConferencePlus (News - Alert) will be hosting Electronic TeleSpan’s annual web teleconference on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011.

The main focus will be TeleSpan’s 2011 predictions for the conferencing industry. Reservations can be made through the Internet and by phone. The conference will be followed by a release of the annual Predictions Edition of the Electronic TeleSpan, which is a leading industry newsletter.

Westell Inc. focuses on design, distribution, marketing and providing services including a broad range of broadband customer-premises equipment, digital transmission, remote monitoring, power distribution and demarcation products to telephone companies and other telecommunications service providers.

ConferencePlus, a leading global corporate conference call and online meeting solutions provider, offers a wide range of services, which include innovative IP-based collaboration solutions, audio conferencing, videoconferencing, web conferencing, webcasting with Web Plus, corporate conferencing with Enhancements Plus, Industry specific conferencing, event management with Event Manager, and content management with Share Portal product. ConferencePlus also offers post-conference services with Digital Tape Playback (DTP) product.

The TeleSpan 16th Annual Predictions event will be led by its President, Mr. Elliot Gold. He has more than 20 years of experience in collecting and reporting news and events which are an integral part of the teleconferencing industry. Gold will be focussing on the current and future trends in voice, video, and web conferencing, as well as TeleSpan's pick of companies that will "hit the wall" or companies that will likely be picked up in consolidations in the next two years. Gold will also be reviewing each of his predictions from 2010, giving them a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Attendees will be free to pose questions on the TeleSpan’s forecasts as well as the conference market.

Gold has had 71 percent accuracy in making predictions, as was seen in the average outcome of the predictions. Since the year 1996 he has made 150 predictions, and 106 predictions have been proven to be accurate earning him the highest average in the industry. This has led to the TeleSpan being considered by the leading industry analysts as the most widely quoted and authoritative source in teleconferencing in the past 25 years with its “Here’s what I think” commentaries.