Optimum Lightpath Wins 2009 Best Marketing Americas Award from the Metro Ethernet Forum
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Optimum Lightpath Wins 2009 Best Marketing Americas Award from the Metro
Ethernet Forum
Company racks up fourth consecutive MEF award, underscoring commitment to
Ethernet technology
JERICHO, N.Y., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Optimum Lightpath(SM), a market leader
in Ethernet-based communication solutions for New York metropolitan area
businesses, today announced it won the 2009 Carrier Ethernet Service Provider
Award for Best Marketing Americas, issued by industry standards body, the
Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). Also named finalist for the MEF's Best Service
Innovation and Service Provider of the Year Americas awards, Optimum Lightpath
is recognized for the fourth straight year for its excellence and leadership
in Carrier Ethernet Services. The award was presented at the MEF Ethernet Expo
awards dinner in New York City last week.
"The MEF congratulates Optimum Lightpath on winning this prestigious award,"
said Nan Chen, President of the Metro Ethernet Forum. "This is deserved
recognition of Optimum Lightpath's on-going commitment to deliver world-class,
MEF compliant Ethernet business services to its customers."
Judged by a panel of industry analysts and Ethernet market experts, Optimum
Lightpath is recognized as the service provider who has run the most
successful marketing campaign to promote its Ethernet service portfolio.
Optimum Lightpath's smart community campaign demonstrates how Smart Businesses
have been able to transform the way they work by improving and simplifying
business processes, improving customer service and controlling costs using
Optimum Lightpath's Ethernet-based voice, data, Internet and video
communications service offerings. This year, the company launched three new
Ethernet Business Services to help customers harness the power of voice, data,
Internet and video: Hosted Voice, Managed Video and Ethernet-based Virtual
Private Ring Service. It also announced a strategic relationship with
interactive patient care expert, GetWellNetwork, to provide a
business-critical application to Smart Hospitals, boosting the smart community
message across the healthcare community in 2009.
"It is an honor to be recognized again by the MEF for our commitment to
delivering business-critical Ethernet communications solutions," said Dave
Pistacchio, President of Optimum Lightpath. "This year, we introduced a unique
marketing effort, which is wholly driven by our smart community customers.
This campaign distinguishes Optimum Lightpath from its peers by spotlighting
real-world success stories from CIOs and CTOs, and demonstrates how Ethernet
technology has helped them work smarter, better and faster -- for less. It's
this 'customer-first' approach that sets us apart, showcasing tangible
business improvements that make Ethernet a critical business reality and a
'must-have' for other businesses in the community."
About Optimum Lightpath
Optimum Lightpath, a division of Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC),
is an industry leader in providing advanced Ethernet-based data, Internet,
voice, video transport solutions and managed services to businesses across the
New York metropolitan area. Optimum Lightpath's Network is a highly reliable,
resilient, and scalable fiber-to-the-business-premises network extending more
than 3,700 route miles connecting more than 3,500 buildings. Exclusively
focused on meeting customer needs in the world's largest business market for
20 years, Optimum Lightpath has been continually recognized for its high level
of customer service. For 11 straight years, the New York State Public Service
Commission has given Optimum Lightpath its Commendation of Excellence. Optimum
Lightpath has received many industry awards for innovation and leadership. For
more information, visit www.optimumlightpath.com.
Media Contacts:
Jennifer Abelson Charlstie Laytin
Abelson Group for Optimum Lightpath Cablevision
917-445-4454 516-803-2357
Jennifer@abelsongroup.com claytin@cablevision.com
SOURCE Optimum Lightpath
Jennifer Abelson of Abelson Group for Optimum Lightpath, +1-917-445-4454,
Jennifer@abelsongroup.com; or Charlstie Laytin of Cablevision,
+1-516-803-2357, claytin@cablevision.com
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