Arris, Cisco, and Motorola Sponsor Light Reading's Docsis 3.0 Strategies Conference

CMP's Light Reading and Heavy Reading to host 'Docsis 3.0 Strategies: From Product Development to Service Deployment,' March 19 in Denver

PRNewswire
NEW YORK
Feb 20, 2008

NEW YORK, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Docsis 3.0 Strategies: From Product Development to Service Deployment - a one-day conference produced by Light Reading's Cable Digital News (http://www.lightreading.com/cdn), the world's leading online publication for the cable industry, and Heavy Reading (http://www.heavyreading.com/), its prestigious market research division - will take a comprehensive look at the cable industry's plans to roll out its next- generation broadband architecture around the world.

Docsis 3.0 Strategies, which will take place on March 19 in Denver, will bring together leading cable companies, equipment vendors, software suppliers, and financial analysts to discuss the future of the cable industry and explore its progress on Docsis 3.0 technology. Leading cable vendors Arris, Cisco Systems, and Motorola will participate as Platinum sponsors and will also speak at the event.

Alan Breznick, Senior Analyst at Heavy Reading, and Jeff Baumgartner, Site Editor for Light Reading's Cable Digital News, will moderate the conference. Speakers from Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Rogers, LibertyGlobal, Buckeye CableSystem, CableLabs, and Tandberg Television will also participate.

The primary goals of Docsis 3.0 Strategies: From Product Development to Service Deployment will be to:

--  Assess the cable industry's progress on Docsis 3.0 to date
  --  Explore the technical, operational, and competitive issues raised by
      the development of Docsis 3.0
  --  Lay out the course that the cable industry will follow over the rest
      of the year
  --  Estimate the cable industry's costs of deploying Docsis 3.0
  --  Offer constructive and practical advice to cable operators on the way
      forward

A few sponsorships for this event remain. To sponsor Docsis 3.0, please send an email to sales@lightreading.com.

To register Docsis 3.0, please visit: http://www.lightreading.com/docsis.

  Contact:
  Amy Averbook
  Director of Corporate Marketing
  Light Reading Inc.
  averbook@lightreading.com
  212-925-0020 x112

About Docsis 3.0 Strategies: From Product Development to Service Deployment

Docsis 3.0 Strategies is being held on March 19 at the JW Marriott Denver and promises to be the premiere cable networking event in the industry. Docsis 3.0 Strategies that will take a comprehensive look at the cable industry's plans to roll out its much-ballyhooed next-generation architecture around the world.

About Light Reading

Founded in 2000, Light Reading (http://www.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. It reaches an extensive audience of executives and technologists within the telecom and enterprise networking communities, as well as the financial/industry analysts and investors who track these sectors. Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005, and operates as a unit of CMP.

About CMP

CMP (http://www.cmp.com/) is a media and marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. With the leading online, event, and print brands in all technology market categories, and with services and tools that reach beyond traditional advertising, CMP shapes and influences the technology industry worldwide. CMP publishes highly respected media brands such as TechWeb, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times, and TechOnline; produces major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, Game Developer Conference, and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and provides business information and marketing services such as the International Customer Management Institute, Semiconductor Insights, and Second Life consulting for technology marketers. CMP is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. For more CMP news, go to cmp.com/news.

SOURCE: Light Reading

CONTACT: Amy Averbook, Director of Corporate Marketing, Light Reading
Inc., +1-212-925-0020 x112, or averbook@lightreading.com

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