Comptel-Plus is a carriers-selling-to-carriers event that always brings an interesting reality check perspective to an equipment vendor guy like me. Even with Sin City’s twinkling lights and cacophony of sounds for a backdrop, last week in Las Vegas was no different. My schizophrenic outlook vacillates between two extremes – one moment, I’m feeling like an interloper crashing a private party, and the next I’m believing this event is the center of the universe for all those carrier decision-makers who are eager to share the secret of what really makes their businesses tick.