Light Reading Announces Its 2009 Top Picks

Editors select a wide variety of products and services pushing the industry
forward

NEW YORK, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com),
the leading integrated media 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:
http://www.lightreading.com/top-picks.

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

Contact
Amy Averbook
TechWeb's Light Reading
212 600 3373
averbook@lightreading.com

SOURCE Light Reading

Amy Averbook of TechWeb's Light Reading, +1-212-600-3373,
averbook@lightreading.com