Light Reading & 4G World Announce New Backhaul Summit

NEW YORK, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM TechWeb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the leading research-led media company serving the global communications marketplace, is collocating a new mobile backhaul summit at the Yankee Group's 4GWorld, being held in Chicago, Oct. 18-21, 2010.

Light Reading has been producing the telecom industry's leading mobile backhaul conferences for four years, with this June's event (www.lightreading.com/backhaulcore) in New York City drawing senior speakers from AT&T and Verizon and platinum sponsors Cisco and Tellabs. 4GWorld is the second largest telecom conference in the US, and is targeting 10,000 attendees and 140 exhibitors this year.

Light Reading's Backhaul Strategies & Core Convergence for Carriers summit will be led by Heavy Reading Senior Consultant Berge Ayvazian, who runs Heavy Reading's 4G Consulting Practice and is also an Advisory Board member of 4GWorld, as well as Senior Analyst Patrick Donegan, who is acknowledged to be a leading expert in mobile backhaul and who has led all of the LR backhaul conferences.

"In addition to running 15 standalone events around the world, including India and China, Light Reading aggressively partners with major associations and telecom show organizers, and we're very excited to be able to present the fall edition of our Backhaul Conference franchise at 4GWorld," says Joseph Braue, SVP/Group Director of Light Reading.

4G World 2010 (www.4gworld.com) is expected to draw more than 10,000 global attendees and more than 140 exhibitors, with participation from Alvarion and Motorola as Corporate Hosts and Cisco, Huawei, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Samsung as Premier Sponsors. "We look forward to adding Light Reading's backhaul summit to our great content lineup," says Eliot Weinman, president of Yankee Group's Events Division and conference founder and chair.

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 UBM TechWeb, a division of United Business Media.

About 4G World

4G World™, is the first and only conference and expo covering the entire ecosystem of next-generation technologies that enable the mobile Internet revolution, including mobile network infrastructure, advanced devices, applications, and content. Drawing 10,000 attendees and 250 sponsors and exhibitors from across the entire 4G wireless, mobile broadband, and mobile internet ecosystem, 4G World is the premier 4G business transformation event, where the entire industry gathers to chart its future direction.

4G World is produced by the Events and Media division of Yankee Group Research. The 2010 event will take place October 18-21 at Chicago's McCormick Place.

SOURCE Light Reading