Light Reading Gears Up for Its Final Backhaul Event of 2010

NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM TechWeb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the largest research-led media company serving the global communications marketplace, in collaboration with Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com), its prestigious market research division, will be hosting their twelfth annual Backhaul Strategies & Core Convergence for Mobile Operators Conference on December 9, 2010 in London. Backhaul Strategies & Core Convergence for Mobile Operators, co-chaired by Heavy Reading Senior Analysts Gabriel Brown and Patrick Donegan, has been expanded to embrace the theme of core convergence but will focus on the progress that wireless operators are making in migrating their backhaul networks for dramatically increasing volumes and types of data traffic. This will be Light Reading's third backhaul event of 2010, following up the enormously successfully New York and Chicago events.

Backhaul & Core Convergence Strategies for Mobile Operators will feature keynote speaker Yiannis Argyropoulos, Ph.D., Architecture & Planning, AT&T, and Andy Sutton, Principal Design Consultant, Transport Networks, Everything Everywhere. Additional speakers will include Gil Biran, CEO, High Tech Advisors, representatives from Platinum Sponsors Cambridge Broadband Networks and Cisco, as well as Gold Sponsors Accedian Networks, Ceragon, Tejas Networks, Tellabs, and Transmode.

"The next steps in evolving the backhaul network are scaling the network up cost efficiently, evolving to meet the new backhaul requirements of LTE, and optimizing investments across the backhaul and the core," said Patrick Donegan, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading. "Our conference will drill down into these issues with world-leaders from among the operators, vendors, Heavy Reading analysts, and industry associations."

Registration for press and analysts is free. To register for Backhaul Strategies & Core Convergence for Mobile Operators in New York, please visit: www.lightreading.com/backhaulcoreuk.

About Light Reading (www.lightreading.com)

Founded in 2000, the Light Reading Communications Network is the world's leading research-led integrated media company serving the global communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for technological and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation. Light Reading's research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research, provide the most comprehensive communications research, market data, and technology analysis in close to 100 markets around the world. Light Reading produces nearly 20 targeted communications events including TelcoTV, and TelcoTV Asia, Ethernet Expo New York and Ethernet Europe, and The Tower Summit @ CTIA, as well as focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile, and wireline executives in the US, Europe, India, and China. Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and operates as a unit of TechWeb.

About UBM TechWeb (www.ubmtechweb.com)

UBM TechWeb, the global leader in technology media and professional information, enables people and organizations to harness the transformative power of technology. Through its three core businesses – media solutions, marketing services and paid content – UBM TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed brands and media applications in the technology market. More than 14.5 million business and technology professionals (CIOs and IT managers, Web & Digital professionals, Software Developers, Government decision makers, and Telecom providers) actively engage in UBM TechWeb's communities and information resources monthly. UBM TechWeb brands includes: global face-to-face events such as Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and Enterprise Connect; award-winning online resources such as InformationWeek, Light Reading, and Network Computing; and market-leading magazines InformationWeek, Wall Street & Technology, and Advanced Trading. UBM TechWeb is a UBM company, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.

About United Business Media Limited (www.ubm.com)

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities – from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists – with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to http://www.ubm.com/

SOURCE Light Reading

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