Light Reading's Cable Conference Packs Them In

NEW YORK, Dec. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM TechWeb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the largest research-led media company serving the global communications marketplace, and Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com), its prestigious market research division, hosted their fourth annual The Future of Cable Business Services event on December 2, 2010 in New York. The conference attracted more than 160 non-sponsored attendees, of whom nearly 50 percent were from cable operators, service providers, and programmers.

Moderated by Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Alan Breznick and Heavy Reading Cable Industry Insider Contributing Analyst Craig Leddy, The Future of Cable Business Services addressed the growth trends in the market as all three of the nation's largest MSOs approach the $1 billion mark for commercial services revenue. With the overall industry now generating an estimated $5 billion in commercial revenue, the event also addressed cable's latest commercial thrusts, including Ethernet solutions, wireless services, cellular backhaul, managed services, and such advanced voice services as SIP trunking and hosted VoIP.

"Our fourth annual cable business services event was definitely our biggest and best yet," Breznick said. "We had senior executives from the top five cable operators in the U.S. and the biggest MSO in Canada spelling out their commercial services strategies and new initiatives."  

Among the highlights of the conference, Kristine Faulkner, VP of product development and management for Cox Business, revealed in a keynote that the division expects to break the US$1 billion mark for 2010 sometime next week: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=201398&site=lr_cable&

Time Warner Cable Business Class Services SVP Craig Collins announced that its business services will grow 20 percent this year: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=201372&site=lr_cable&

In addition, Dave Pistacchio, President of Optimum Lightpath, advised MSOs in his keynote how they can win in the enterprise services market: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=201353&site=lr_cable&

Additional highlights from The Future of Cable Business Services conference included keynote speakers from Time Warner Cable Business Class, Clearwire, Cox Business, and Cablevision Optimum Lightpath. Other featured speakers presenting on panels came from Rogers Business Solutions, CableLabs, Comcast Cable and Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.

Sponsors included Platinum Sponsor Clearwire; Gold Sponsors Alcatel-Lucent, Arris, Cedar Point Communications, Cisco, Convergys, Fujitsu, Metaswitch, Oracle, SMC Networks, Taqua, and Tellabs; Silver Sponsor MRV; and Association Sponsor SIP Forum.

The next event in Light Reading Cable's event series will be Cable Next-Gen Broadband Strategies: Docsis 3.0, Wireless, Fiber & Beyond in Denver, Colorado on February 24, 2011. Speaking and sponsorship opportunities are still available. For more information, please contact [email protected].

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/

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