Light Reading Names 2010 Leading Lights Winners

NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM TechWeb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the largest research-led media company serving the global communications marketplace, today announced the winners for 2010 edition of the communication industry's top awards program, the Leading Lights Awards.  The complete winners list can be found online at http://www.lightreading.com/2010winners

This evening the Leading Lights winners and Light Reading Hall of Fame inductees were announced at an Awards Dinner at Hudson Terrace (www.hudsonterracenyc.com) in New York City.

Light Reading received hundreds of nominations for the sixth Leading Lights Awards. "The winners survived weeks of scrutiny and debate by a staff of more than a dozen editors and analysts from Light Reading and its research division, Heavy Reading," says Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief at Light Reading. "Light Reading's top sources and readers gave us their input as well."

The award categories for 2010 include Best New Product (Cable), Best New Product (Mobile), Best New Product (Telecom), Best New Service or Application (Cable), Best New Service or Application (Mobile), Best New Service or Application (Telecom), Company of the Year (Private), Company of the Year (Public), and Best Deal Maker

In the category of Company of the Year (Public), Finisar Corp. was selected as the publicly listed firm that stands out among its competitors, innovates constantly, makes investors proud, and makes employees happy. For the rest of the Leading Lights winners, please visit: http://www.lightreading.com/2010winners

Finalists for each award category were announced in can be found here: http://www.lightreading.com/finalists2010

Light Reading's reputation for fiercely independent analysis makes this the most credible and authoritative awards program in the communications industry.

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 include: 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 monetisation 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 organised 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 Communications Network