Light Reading's 'Backhaul Strategies for Mobile Operators' Draws 150+ to One-Day Event in New York City

NEW YORK, Nov. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the market-leading online community for the global communications sector, today announced the successful wrap-up of the 'Backhaul Strategies for Mobile Operators' (www.lightreading.com/bsmny2014) one-day event, which took place October 29 in New York City and explored next-gen mobile backhaul networks. The event brought together more than 150 attendees, half of them operators.

To read all of the coverage on the event visit: http://www.lightreading.com/backhaul-strategies-for-mobile-operators.asp

Key industry trends discussed at the event include: Cloud-RAN, the transition to dark fiber, changing wholesaler business models and SDN and NFV in the backhaul.

"The US backhaul market is on the cusp of another major transformation driven by new dark fiber deployment models, greater cell site densification, and more exacting networking requirements. Wholesalers, mobile operators and vendors came away with a clear sense that this is a time of discontinuity and opportunity unlike any since the start of the transformation from T1s to Ethernet backhaul seven or eight years ago," said Patrick Donegan, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading.

In addition to Heavy Reading analysts, event speakers included:

• 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, Tower Cloud 
• Adrian Berezowsky, President, IVI Telecom Services Inc.

Mobile Network Security Strategies 2014, December 3, 2014 in New York City
Light Reading will host 'Mobile Network Security Strategies 2014' (www.lightreading.com/mnssnyc2014) on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 in New York City. The third annual event will focus on how mobile network operators are leveraging the power of the network infrastructure to protect their assets and subscriber experiences and how the security architecture and different network security applications within it must evolve to keep pace with the rapidly changing security threat landscape.

Carrier keynotes, Heavy Reading research, vendor perspectives, and panel discussions will address incidents of different attack types and how mobile carriers are protecting against them. The event will explore the vulnerabilities of established protocols, as well as new mobile network interfaces, and the strong case for investing in network security – not just as a means of protecting traditional revenue, but also as a positive enabler and differentiator for capturing the promise of brand new business models in the LTE-driven mobile broadband era.

In addition to Patrick Donegan, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading, event speakers include:

• Ed Amoroso, Chief Security Officer, AT&T
• John A Marinho, VP Technology & Cybersecurity, CTIA
• Kathryn Condello, National Security CenturyLink, Current Chair, Communications Sector Coordinating Council
• Tracy Hulver, Director, Identity Marketing - Security Innovation Group, Verizon Business
• Andrew Conway, Head of Research, Cloudmark; M3WAAG
• Angela Knox, Engineering Director, Cloudmark; Co-chair M3WAAG Collaboration Committee
• Leonid Burakovsky, Senior Director, Strategic Solutions, F5 Networks

To register to attend Mobile Network Security Strategies 2014, visit: http://tinyurl.com/20MNSS14 

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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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