Service Provider Attendance at Ethernet Europe 2010 Reaches Record Number

NEW YORK, April 19 /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 their fifth and most successful Ethernet event in Europe on April 12 & 13 in London. Ethernet Europe, chaired by Ethernet expert and Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Stan Hubbard, had nearly 300 non-sponsored attendees, from 18 different countries, of whom a record number of 220 were from service providers or operators.

In addition to a record number of service provider attendees, Ethernet Europe 2010 featured an unprecedented speaker lineup of experts from 14 service providers. The conference featured lively panel sessions, debates, and roundtables on where Ethernet is likely to take us for the rest of this decade.

"We are delighted by the service provider attendance and direct participation in this year's event and believe it is reflective of the growing strategic importance of Carrier Ethernet in operators' business models," says Hubbard. "Carrier Ethernet is the indisputable technology of choice for transforming the telecom data services landscape and building cost-effective, high-performance networks that support next-generation business, residential, and mobile services."

Ethernet Europe sponsors included Platinum Sponsors Alcatel-Lucent, ANDA Networks, Equinix, and JDSU; Gold Sponsors Actelis Networks, ADVA Optical Networking, BTI Systems, Canoga Perkins, Ciena, EXFO, Hatteras Networks, InfoVista, Metaswitch Networks, Omnitron Systems Technology, Overture Networks, RAD Data Communications, Sunrise Telecom, Transition Networks, and Transmode; and Showcase Sponsors Allied Telesis, MRV, Spirent Communications, and Telent.

Ethernet Europe also included the Advanced Global Interconnect Test Program. This service provider interoperability test and showcase program, created by EANTC in collaboration with ancotel and Light Reading, included Interconnect Switch Sponsor Alcatel-Lucent; Test-and-Measurement Sponsor Spirent Communications; and NID Sponsor MRV. Service Provider Participants were Belgacom ICS, Equinix, Expereo International, Level 3 Communications, P&T Luxembourg, Teragate, Tinet, and Ucomline. For more information on the Interconnect at Ethernet Europe go here: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=190402.

See what happened at Ethernet Europe here: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=190371. For additional coverage visit: http://www.lightreading.com/topics.asp?node_id=1217.

About Light Reading

Founded in 2000, Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) is the leading online media, research, and focused event company serving the $3 trillion worldwide 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 (http://techweb.com/aboutus)

UBM TechWeb, the global leader in technology media and professional information, enables people and organizations to harness the transformative power of technology. Through its core businesses – media solutions, marketing services, and professional information – UBM TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed brands, applications, and services in the technology market. More than 14.5 million business and technology professionals (CIOs, IT and IT Support managers, Web and digital professionals, software and game developers, government decision makers, and telecom providers) actively participate in UBM TechWeb's communities. UBM TechWeb brands include: global face-to-face events such as Interop, Game Developers Conference (GDC), Web 2.0, Black Hat, and VoiceCon; large-scale online networks such as InformationWeek, Light Reading, and Gamasutra; research, training, and certification services, including HDI, Pyramid Research, and InformationWeek Analytics; and market-leading magazines such as InformationWeek and Wall Street & Technology. UBM TechWeb is part of UBM, a global provider of media and information services for professional B2B communities and markets.

About United Business Media Limited (http://unitedbusinessmedia.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.

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