CommunicationsWeek's NetWorld+Interop Events Offer A Behind-the-Scenes View of Major Corporate Intranets

Internet News Radio™ Programming Also Highlights the Flagship Publication's Activities

PRNewswire
MANHASSET, N.Y.
Apr 22, 1997

CMP Media Inc.'s CommunicationsWeek will take NetWorld+Interop showgoers on a behind-the-scenes virtual tour of some of the nation's most effective corporate intranets during a series of events to be held May 6-8 at the Las Vegas trade show.

During each of the events--called The Corporate Web: Behind the Firewall- -Editor-in-Chief Mitch Irsfeld and Editor Elliot Kass will host a group of corporate information technology and business managers who will be on hand to give a live demonstration of their intranet initiatives and also discuss its business goals, budget, integration, and security.

Events run during all three days of the networking industry trade show at CommunicationsWeek's Las Vegas Convention Center booth [#3671]. Show times are 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:00 and 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 6 and Wednesday, May 7; and 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 8.

CommunicationsWeek will also once again broadcast news reports and audio interviews via Internet News Radio on its Web site, CommunicationsWeek Interactive (http://www.commweek.com/). Scheduled interviews include Mory Ejabat, President and CEO, Ascend Communications Inc.; Bruch Sachs, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Internet/Telecom Business Group; Lloyd Carney, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Business Group, Bay Networks; Bill O'Shea, President, Lucent Technologies' Business Communications Systems; and Ross Manire, Senior Vice President and General Manager, U.S. Robotics.

Roundtables with leading industry luminaries, a May 7 MidWeek Extra, and co-sponsorship of three other events--the Network Analysis Forum, hosted by the Pine Mountain Group, the Network Intelligence Briefing and the NetAnalyst Invasion at Circus Circus Hotel's Grand Slam Canyon--round out the flagship publication's NetWorld+Interop activities.

NetWorld, the world's largest event providing networking and Internet professionals an unprecedented forum for education, products, services and up- to-date information to make critical purchasing decisions. The event provides these professionals with the opportunity to experience and demonstrate emerging and existing technologies in the Internet and networking market, focusing on interoperability in a multivendor, multiprotocol environment. NetWorld+Interop occurs annually in Las Vegas, Atlanta, Tokyo, Paris, London, Sydney and Singapore. Visit Interop Online at http://www.interop.com/ for year-round news and information.

CommunicationsWeek (http://www.commweek.com/), The Networking Newspaper, delivers news and analysis that helps network IT management translate evolving advances in communications and computing technology directly into business advantage. The newspaper features Web Commerce, a biweekly section that provides in-depth features and analysis of electronic commerce products, technologies and case studies. Telepath, a monthly supplement to CommunicationsWeek, is directed to the innovators behind converging networks.

CMP Media Inc. provides publishing, marketing and information services to the broad high-technology spectrum--the builders, sellers and users of technology -- through print and electronic media. All of CMP's publications and online products can be accessed through the company's TechWeb® site on the World Wide Web (http://www.techweb.com/). Print titles include EE Times, Computer Reseller News, InformationWeek and WINDOWS Magazine.

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SOURCE: CMP Media Inc.

CONTACT: Steve Rubel, 516-562-7434 or srubel@cmp.com, or Laurel Nelson-
Rowe, 516-562-5958 or lnr@cmp.com, both of CMP Corporate Communications