Heavy Reading & Pyramid Research Join Forces to Launch a New IP Transformation Market Tracker Service

Quarterly offering delivers detailed global data and analysis covering carrier activity and deployment of infrastructure gear to enable migration to all-IP networks

NEW YORK, May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com) and Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com) have teamed up to create the telecom industry's most comprehensive market sizing and forecasting service aimed at one of telecom's most critical flash points: the ongoing migration to all-IP network infrastructures and the replacement of circuit-switched technologies with packet-enabled products.

The IP Network Transformation Quarterly Market Tracker Service combines Heavy Reading's deep understanding of telecom technology developments and trends with Pyramid Research's unparalleled coverage of regional and national markets to deliver the most succinct, accurate, and timely intelligence covering the state of telecom network transformation from both a business and technological perspective.

Each quarter, the IP Network Transformation Quarterly Market Tracker Service provides a fully updated, comprehensive view of the actual and anticipated rate of deployment of VoIP infrastructure in fixed networks in strategic markets around the world - all in one single, convenient package. The debut version includes coverage of North America, Western Europe, Central/Eastern Europe, and Asia/Pacific; the service will include coverage of Latin America in future releases.

The IP Network Transformation Quarterly Market Tracker offers a sweeping array of information and analysis, including:

• Timely updates charting the progress of IP network transformation in wireline telecom networks by region and by national market.
• Regional and country-specific forecasts for packet- and circuit-switched deployments through 2013, updated quarterly to reflect new market realities.
• Detailed IP deployment statistics and forecasts for 59 individual network operators through 2013, updated quarterly.
• Deep market intelligence and analysis covering key customer wins and losses in the IP transformation sector by country and specific operator, focusing on 16 leading IP transformation vendors, including Alcatel-Lucent, BroadSoft, Cedar Point, Cisco Systems, Comverse, Ericsson, Huawei, Italtel, MetaSwitch, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel Networks, Sonus Networks, Thomson, UTStarcom, Veraz Networks, and ZTE.
• Ongoing tracking of the key technologies (IMS, softswitches, application servers, etc.) that carriers are deploying as part of their IP transformation initiatives.

The IP Network Transformation Quarterly Market Tracker Service is the first joint service created by Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research following Pyramid's acquisition by TechWeb (www.techweb.com), the global leader in business technology media. "This inaugural service is an ideal pairing of Pyramid's extensive regional market expertise with Heavy Reading's deep understanding of enabling and emerging technologies," says Dennis Mendyk, managing director of Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research. "This type of hybrid product will set a new standard for telecom business and technology forecasting."

"The IP Network Transformation Quarterly Market Tracker delivers concise and complete intelligence covering one of the telecom equipment industry's most critical landscapes - the evolution of telecom networks from circuit-switched TDM to packet-switched IP," notes Jim Hodges, Senior Analyst at Heavy Reading and creator of the new service. "It stands alone as a one-stop source that offers unrivaled breadth and analysis of the ongoing Class 5 network transformation in an easy-to-use package."

The IP Network Transformation Quarterly Market Tracker is distributed in PowerPoint and Excel formats. Quarterly reports may be purchased individually ($5,995) or as part of an annual subscription service ($19,995).

For more information, or to receive a free PowerPoint demo of the IP Network Transformation Quarterly Market Tracker, please contact:

    Dave Williams
    Sales Director, Heavy Reading
    858-485-8870
    dave.williams@heavyreading.com

    Press/analyst contacts:
    Dennis Mendyk
    Managing Director, Heavy Reading
    201-587-2154
    mendyk@heavyreading.com

    Jennifer Baker
    Marketing Director, Pyramid Research
    617-871-1910
    jbaker@pyr.com

About Heavy Reading

Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com) is an independent market research organization offering quantitative analysis of telecom technology to service providers, vendors, and investors. Its mandate is to provide the comprehensive competitive analysis needed today for the deployment of profitable networks based on next-generation hardware and software.

About Pyramid Research

Pyramid Research (http://www.pyr.com) offers practical solutions to the complex demands our clients face in the global telecommunications, media, and technology industries. Our analysis is uniquely positioned at the intersection of emerging markets, emerging technologies, and emerging business models, powered by the bottom-up methodology of our market forecasts for more than 100 countries - a distinction that has remained unmatched for nearly 25 years. As the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network, Pyramid Research works with Heavy Reading, providing the communications industry's most comprehensive market data, trusted research, and insightful technology analysis.

About TechWeb

TechWeb (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 InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Wall Street & Technology magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services ranging from 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 $1.6 billion.

* 13.3 million business decision-makers: based on # 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

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