Light Reading's Ethernet Expo Shatters Attendance Records

NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 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, hosted its tenth annual Ethernet Expo on November 2-3, 2010, in New York City. Ethernet Expo, chaired by Heavy Reading's expert Ethernet analyst, Stanley Hubbard, is the premier event covering the hot topic of Carrier Ethernet network technologies and services in the Americas. Ethernet Expo 2010 shattered attendance records with over 850 non-sponsor attendees and nearly 1,300 registrants, with more than 70 percent coming from service providers, exchange carriers, and cable operator/MSOs. The event saw a record 45 percent growth in attendee numbers.

Beyond increased attendee numbers, Ethernet Expo highlights included:

• Participation from over 150 different service provider and cable operator organizations with registrations coming from more than 25 different countries
• Presentations and panel participation from 24 of the industry's top service provider and exchange companies including: AboveNet, AT&T, BT, CENX, Covad Wholesale, Equinix, Global Crossing, Intellifiber, Interoute, IP Only, Level 3, Lightower, Neutral Tandem, NTT Americas, Optimum Lightpath, PacketExchange, Reliance Globalcom, Sidera Networks, Telx, Transbeam, tw telecom, Verizon, Verizon Business, and XO Communications
• Phase III of EANTC and ancotel's Advanced Global Interconnect Test Program, which showcased participation from Alcatel-Lucent, MRV, Spirent, and nine service providers
• The unveiling of winners for Light Reading's prestigious Leading Lights awards: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=199662

"The sharp increase in attendance at this year's Ethernet Expo is a direct reflection of the growing strategic importance of Carrier Ethernet technologies in cost-effectively supporting next-generation business, wholesale, residential, and mobile services," said Hubbard. "I could not be more pleased with the widespread commitment of industry professionals to help drive the market forward by fostering a sense of community, continuing to invest in innovation, and delivering the benefits of Carrier Ethernet to as many customers and locations as possible."

Ethernet Expo included Super Platinum Sponsor Ciena; Platinum Sponsors AboveNet, ANDA Networks, Fujitsu, Level 3, and Nokia Siemens Networks; and Gold Sponsors Accedian Networks, Actelis Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, Adva Networks, Canoga Perkins, CENX, Covad, Cyan, ECI, Equinix, Exfo, Extreme Networks, Hatteras Networks, Ixia, JDSU, Juniper Networks, Lightower Fiber Networks, Metaswitch Networks, MRV, Neutral Tandem, Overture Networks, Positron Access Solutions, RAD, Sidera Networks, Sunrise Telecom, Telco Systems, Tellabs, Telx, Transbeam, Transmode, and more. Additional Exhibitors included Brocade, Champion One, EXAR, Infinera, INOC, NEC, Omnitron Systems, Spirent, Transition Networks, and VEEX.

Ethernet Expo attendees, sponsors, and those who were unable to attend have the opportunity to reconnect on November 16 at the reopening of the Ethernet Expo Digital Summit. For more information on this free opportunity, please visit: http://www.lightreading.com/live/event_information.asp?event_id=29333&survey_id=0

Light Reading's next event in its Ethernet Series will be Ethernet Europe, scheduled for April 12-13, 2011 in London.

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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