Comcast, Cable Europe Labs & Liberty Global to Keynote at Light Reading's Cable Next-Gen Broadband Strategies Conference

Conference will feature keynotes from Comcast, Cable Europe Labs, and Liberty Global execs, plus presentations by many other industry executives

NEW YORK, February 23, 2010 - UBM Techweb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the principal
research-led media company serving the global communications marketplace, and
Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com), its prestigious market research
division, will host their third annual Cable Next-Gen Broadband Strategies
conference on Thursday, February 25, 2010 at the Cable Center in Denver.
Cable Next-Gen Broadband Strategies — hosted by Heavy Reading Senior Analyst
Alan Breznick, Light Reading Cable Site Editor Jeff Baumgartner, and Heavy
Reading Contributing Analyst Craig Leddy — will take a comprehensive look at
the cable industry's plans to deploy powerful Docsis 3.0 wideband technology,
delve into wireless broadband, and develop such new fiber-to-the-premises
(FTTP) architectures as Radio Frequency Over Glass (RFOG) and Passive Optical
Networks (PONs).

The Cable Next-Gen Broadband Strategies conference will feature morning
keynote speaker Jorge D. Salinger, VP of Access Architecture for Comcast, who
will describe a new access architecture for the cable delivery of broadband
and video signals. The conference will also feature a joint afternoon keynote
session with Peter Percosan, CTO of Cable Europe Labs, and Timothy J. Burke,
VP of Strategic Technology for Liberty Global, who will outline the
aggressive efforts by European, Asian, and other MSOs to deploy Docsis 3.0
services across the planet.

"This should be the most comprehensive conference yet on the cable
industry's next-gen broadband plans and ambitions," Breznick said. "With our
stellar lineup of speakers, we expect to break some news and dig deeper into
cable's broadband progress and challenges."

Other featured speakers will include: Paul Brooks, Director of Network
Engineering at Time Warner Cable; Jeff Finkelstein, Director of Network
Architecture at Cox Communications; Saifur Rahman
(www.lightreading.com/live/event_information.asp?event_id=29282&p_id=s
pkrs), Distinguished Engineer at Comcast Cable; Chris Bastian, Executive
Director of Network Architecture at Comcast Cable; Matt Schmitt, Director of
Docsis Specifications at CableLabs; Doug Jones
(www.lightreading.com/live/event_information.asp?event_id=29282&p_id=s
pkrs), VP of Access Technologies at Comcast Cable; Eamon O'Leary, VP of
Engineering & Operations at Clearwire; Pragash Pillai, Senior VP of
Engineering & Technology at Bresnan Communications; Peter Roberts, VP of
Sales Strategy & Development at Starz Entertainment; Alan Tschirner, VP,
Technology at NCTC; Joseph Jensen, Executive VP & CTO at Buckeye
CableSystems; and Dean Stoneback, Co-Chairman of SCTE IPS Working Group 5.

Speakers from sponsoring companies will also be presenting. The event's
nine sponsors include: Platinum Sponsors Arris and Motorola; Gold Sponsors
Aurora Networks, BigBand Networks, CommScope, Hitachi, and JDSU; and Silver
Sponsors Alloptic and Calix. More than 130 cable and telecom executives are
expected to attend the conference on Thursday at the Cable Center in Denver.

Registration for press and analysts is free. To register for Cable
Next-Gen Broadband Strategies, please visit:
www.lightreading.com/cabledenver.

    Contact:

    Amy Averbook
    Director of Corporate Marketing
    Light Reading
    averbook@lightreading.com
    +1-212-600-3373

About Light Reading

Founded in 2000, Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) is the
leading online media, research, and focused event company serving the US$3
trillion worldwide communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate
source for technological 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,
and TelcoTV Asia, Ethernet Expo New York and Ethernet Europe, and The Tower
Summit @ CTIA, as well as focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile,
and wireline executives in the US, Europe, India, and China. Light Reading
was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and operates as a unit
of TechWeb.

About UBM TechWeb

UBM TechWeb, the global leader in technology media and professional
information, enables people and organizations to harness the transformative
power of technology. Through its core businesses - media solutions, marketing
services and professional information - UBM TechWeb produces the most
respected and consumed brands, applications and services in the technology
market. More than 14.5 million business and technology professionals (CIOs,
IT and IT Support managers, Web & Digital professionals, Software and Game
developers, Government decision makers, and Telecom providers) actively
participate in UBM TechWeb's communities. UBM TechWeb brands includes: global
face-to-face events such as Interop, Game Developers Conference (GDC), Web
2.0, Black Hat and VoiceCon; large-scale online networks such as
InformationWeek, Light Reading and Gamasutra; research, training and
certification services, including HDI, Pyramid Research and InformationWeek
Analytics; and market-leading magazines such as InformationWeek and Wall
Street & Technology. UBM TechWeb is part of UBM, a global provider of media
and information services for professional B2B communities and markets.

About United Business Media Limited

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information
distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization
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
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staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that
serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them
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Amy Averbook, Director of Corporate Marketing, Light Reading, +1-212-600-3373, averbook at lightreading.com