Alcatel-lucent Ceo Ben Verwaayen: 'no Regrets'

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MEDIA RELEASE PR37997


Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen: 'No Regrets'


NEW YORK, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --


            Light Reading's broadband video interview, the first in a

                       three-part series, debuts today



media company serving the global communications marketplace, today announced

that the first 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 he doesn't regret making the leap back into the

telecom vendor world after leaving BT Group in 2008. He also takes issue with

the notion that an all-IP network is absolutely necessary for providing

end-to-end services.


    The second interview in the series will run on Wednesday, January 27, and

the third interview on Friday, January 29, at www.lightreading.com.

    

    Contact:

    Amy Averbook

    Light Reading

    +1-212 600-3373

    averbook@lightreading.com


    About Light Reading

    Founded in 2000, Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) is the leading

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 (http://techweb.com/aboutus), the global leader in business

technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of

technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most

respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today,

more than 13.3 million* business technology professionals actively engage in

our communities created around our global face-to-face events, Interop, Web

2.0, Black Hat, and VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network,

Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and

The Financial Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning

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InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, and Wall Street &

Technology magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services including

next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and

analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global

provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a

market capitalization of more than US$2.5 billion.


    *13.3 million business decision-makers: based on number of monthly

connections


    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

more information, go to http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com.


     SOURCE:  Light Reading


    CONTACT:  Amy Averbook,

              Light Reading, 

              +1-212 600-3373,

              averbook@lightreading.com


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