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Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen: 'New Applications'
NEW YORK, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Light Reading's broadband video interview, the second in a
three-part series, debuts today
media company serving the global communications marketplace, today announced
that the second segment of its broadband video interview with Alcatel-Lucent
CEO Ben Verwaayen is online, right here:
The Alcatel-Lucent chief tells Light Reading's International Managing
Editor, Ray Le Maistre, that applications enablement in carrier networks
could potentially combine everything the Internet offers with the stuff
traditional telecom carriers are good at: reliable networks, location
capability, and billing. The result could be new types of communications
services served up by companies that consumers trust.
The third interview in this series will run on Friday, January 29, at
here:
Contact:
Amy Averbook
Light Reading
+1-212-600-3373
averbook@lightreading.com
About Light Reading
online media, research, and focused event company serving the US$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 TechWeb
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 - TechWeb produces the most respected and
consumed brands and media applications in the technology market. More than 14
million business and technology professionals (CIOs and IT managers, Web &
Digital professionals, Software Developers, Government decision makers, and
Telecom providers) actively engage in TechWeb's communities and information
resources monthly. TechWeb brands includes: global face-to-face events such
as Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and VoiceCon; award-winning online resources
such as InformationWeek, Light Reading, and Network Computing; and
market-leading InformationWeek, Wall Street & Technology, and Advanced
Trading magazines. TechWeb is a UBM company, a global provider of news
distribution and specialist information services, with a market
capitalization of more than US$2.5 billion.
About United Business Media Limited
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
SOURCE: Light Reading
CONTACT: Amy Averbook
Light Reading
+1-212-600-3373
averbook@lightreading.com
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