CompTIA Membership Programs & Sections

CompTIA Convergence Groups CompTIA Convergence Group The CompTIA Convergence Group made up of enterprising convergence solutions providers, manufacturers, distributors, and interconnect dealers who take an active role in shaping the convergent technology industry. ECTF The ECTF brings together the best convergent technologies (CT) industry thinkers to work toward open access to a diversity of communications products and services.

CompTIA & Convergence

The mission of the CompTIA Convergence Group is to promote growth and development in the Communications Convergence industry through adoption of best practices, including promotion of interoperability, standards, sales channel education, and facilitated networking opportunities.

Find out more about the Convergence Initiative, its activities and its complimentary CompTIA programs by downloading “CompTIA’s Convergence Business Initiatives.”

The CompTIA Convergence Group comprises enterprising convergent technologies solution providers who take an active role in shaping the CT industry. Convergent technologies (CT) is the merging of voice, video, fax, and data on a single network, integrating telecommunications and computer technology in a way that opens powerful new avenues of communication. It represents the intersection of telephone, computer, TV, cable and Internet networks.

The CompTIA Convergence Group is committed to providing its members with educational opportunities, encouraging interoperability between a wide variety of vendors and service providers, as well as establishing high standards and business practices among all convergence professionals. CompTIA's Convergence Group provides members with the kind of real-world solutions that are needed to help grow a successful CT business.

The CompTIA Convergence Group:

• Works together to identify or develop the business model(s) for successfully competing in the high tech market
• Identifies the sales/marketing tools necessary to move from “selling boxes” (low-margin business) to providing solutions to customers’ business needs (high-margin business)
• Highlights the technical knowledge and resources necessary to support the business
• Identifies viable products that will integrate to provide solutions to customers ’ business needs
• Provides a forum for learning from peers and sharing the key information that makes the difference between success and failure in the tech world

Please contact us for more information about the CompTIA Convergence Group. To learn more about CompTIA Convergence+ certification, visit http://certification.comptia.org/convergence.