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Light Reading Announces Its 2009 Top Picks
NEW YORK, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Editors select a wide variety of products and services pushing
the industry forward
company serving the worldwide communications industry, today reveals its Top
Picks for communications technologies, services, and products. Light
Reading's editors, after weeks of discussions with readers, analysts, and
industry sources, have each come up with their picks of communications
products and services from all over the world that could potentially shake up
the industry.
Light Reading's Top Picks in each category are as follows:
Business Services (fixed or wireless)
- Verizon Communications Inc.'s Computing as a Service (CaaS)
- Comcast Corp.'s 100-Mbit/s Business Internet Service Bundle
- Telx Group Inc.'s Telx Video Exchange
- Equinix Inc.'s Carrier Ethernet Exchange
Consumer Services (fixed or wireless)
- Sezmi Corp.'s Sezmi TV
- FLO TV Inc.'s Personal TV Service
- Safaricom Ltd.'s M-PESA International Money Transfer (IMT)
- E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH's Gettings Mobile Ad Service
Carrier Transport (optical networking, Ethernet, packet optical)
- Cyan Optics Inc.'s Z77 and Z33 multilayer cross-connects
- Intune Networks' Optical Burst Switching Technology
- Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.'s OSN8800 Version II
Fixed Access (DSL, GPON, WDM-PON, and beyond)
- 2Wire Inc.'s HomePortal GEM
- Iskratel's Gemini40F
- Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd.'s 160-Gbit/s Asymmetric PON System
IP Applications (VoIP, IMS)
- Cedar Point Communications Inc.'s SafariFusion
- XConnect Global Networks Ltd.'s Carrier ENUM Registry
- NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s IMS Apps
Switching and Routing (IP/MPLS, Deep Packet Inspection)
- Arista Networks Inc.'s 7100 Series
- Alcatel-Lucent's 100-Gbit/s cards (7750 Service Router & 7450 Ethernet
Service Switch)
- Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.'s NE40E Universal Service Router
Telecom Software (OSS, BSS, SDPs, policy control)
- AppTrigger Inc.'s Ignite Service Broker
- iSMART Consortium's iSMART DSL L3
- Subex Ltd.'s Rocware 2.0
Video Infrastructure (cable tech, IPTV)
- BigBand Networks Inc.'s Converged Video Exchange (CVEx)
- Wyplay's Wyplay Modular Solutions (WMS)
- Aksh Optifibre's iControl
Wireless Infrastructure (access, backhaul, towers, radios, etc.)
- AT&T Inc.'s 3G MicroCell (Cisco-branded)
- Ericsson AB's RBS 6000 Software Basestation
- Vihaan Networks Ltd. (VNL)'s WorldGSM Solar-powered Basestation
"Congratulations to all the companies and individuals who helped us vet
dozens of products and services to arrive at this year's Top Picks," says
Phil Harvey, Light Reading's Editor-in-Chief. "I'm really proud that this
unique industry recognition program garnered so much attention in its first
year and I'm confident that each one of these Top Picks embodies a trend that
points to where this industry is headed."
For all the areas except Services, Light Reading's editors chose one Top
Pick per category from each of three regions: the Americas; Europe, Middle
East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia/Pacific. For the Business Services and
Consumer Services areas, the editor's selected several Top Picks in each
category, and geography was not a consideration.
To see the discussions and nominations in each category leading up to our
final selections, visit the Top Picks page on Light Reading at:
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
technology 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, Ethernet Expo New York and
Ethernet Expo London, The Tower Summit @ CTIA, and Optical Expo, as well as
focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile, and wireline executives.
Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and
operates as a unit of TechWeb.
About TechWeb
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, 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
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
Contact
Amy Averbook
TechWeb's Light Reading
+1-212-600-3373
averbook@lightreading.com
SOURCE: Light Reading
CONTACT: Amy Averbook of TechWeb's Light Reading
+1-212-600-3373
averbook@lightreading.com
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