Light Reading Announces 'Backhaul Strategies for Mobile Operators' Scheduled for October 29 in New York City

NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the market-leading online community for the global communications sector, today announced the 'Backhaul Strategies for Mobile Operators' (www.lightreading.com/bsmny2014) one-day event will take place Wednesday, October 29 in New York City.

"Ensuring that backhaul network performance and efficiency keep pace with growth in the volumes, varieties and patterns of data traffic is a challenge that isn't going away," says Patrick Donegan, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading. "America's mobile operators and their backhaul partners are now turning to how the backhaul network can support smaller cells, how VoLTE will be supported, and the value that SDN and NFV principles can bring to the roadmap for backhaul evolution."

The event will cover the following:

• What impact – if any – SDN and LTE-A will have on the mobile backhaul network architecture and in what timeframe.
• Insight into T-Mobile's backhaul network architecture, the company's plan to evolve in the coming years to keep pace with changing patterns of demand.
• Heavy Reading's perspective on backhaul network evolution.
• How leading wholesalers like Zayo Group, Verizon and Tower Cloud are aligning their network investments with the requirements of North America's mobile operators.
• Leading equipment vendors to share their observations and network technology fixes for meeting the upcoming challenges in rolling out new features and capabilities.
• Review mobile operator trials of public access small cells as a means of expanding capacity, and look at progress being made in delivering the right backhaul solutions at the right cost-points.
• Explain present-day benchmarks and upcoming cutting-edge milestones in mobile backhaul performance assurance and service assurance.

In addition to Heavy Reading analysts, the event has a stellar list of speakers:

• Jay Clark, Senior Director of Carrier Sales & Ops, Cox Business
• Brendan Gunn, Manager, Product Management, Verizon Global Wholesale
• Dave Jones, SVP Wireless Infrastructure Implementation, Zayo
• David Mayo, Senior Vice President Technology, T-Mobile USA
• Ron Mudry, CEO, TowerCloud
• Adrian Berezowsky, President, IVI Telecom Services Inc.

The events gold sponsors are ADVA Optical Networking and VeEX Inc.

To register to attend Backhaul Strategies for Mobile Operators, visit: http://tinyurl.com/BSMNY2014

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About Light Reading

Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) combines its research-led online communities and targeted events portfolio to help those in the global communications industry make informed decisions. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for telecom analysis for more than 350,000 subscribers each month, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation. Light Reading produces targeted communications events and focused one-day conferences each year for cable, mobile, and wireline executives across five continents.

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Meryl Franzman
Beyond Words Communications Inc.
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617 739 1769

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