Execs From AT&T, Telenor & Others to Speak at Light Reading's Packet Backhaul Virtual Event With Keynote From Aviat Networks

NEW YORK, February 1 - TechWeb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the leading
research-led media company serving the global communications marketplace, and
Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com), its prestigious market research
division, will be hosting their first Packet Backhaul virtual event on
February 4. Packet Backhaul 2010, hosted by Heavy Reading Senior Analysts
Patrick Donegan and Gabriel Brown is the first-ever global virtual tradeshow
dedicated to the mobile backhaul space. Packet Backhaul 2010 will dissect the
ongoing challenges that mobile operators continue to face in scaling up their
initial packet backhaul deployments, and examine the tools and solutions they
are adopting to accelerate the rate of deployment.

Packet Backhaul 2010 will feature service provider industry experts
Yiannis Argyropoulos, Principal Member of Technical Staff from AT&T, and
Terje Jensen, Research Manager for Telenor, who will speak on the rate of
transition to packet backhaul in their markets, as well as briefly describe
their own companies' rates of transition to date, explaining the progress
made as well as the architectures and technologies used. Additionally,
Platinum Sponsor Aviat Networks, formerly Harris Stratex Networks SVP, and
Chief Marketing Officer Shaun McFall will be keynoting on the mobile
broadband explosion and how next-generation wireless backhaul technologies
can transform mobile networks and turn the mobile broadband explosion into a
transformative opportunity for revenue growth.

"Many leading operators have made their fundamental architectural and
technology choices for evolving their backhaul networks from TDM to
IP/Ethernet. What they're wrestling with now are the operational aspects of
scaling the deployments up cost effectively," says Patrick Donegan, Senior
Analyst at Heavy Reading.

Other panelists from sponsoring companies will also be present. Sponsors
include Aviat Networks, as Platinum sponsor; Fujitsu, as Gold sponsor; and
Bronze sponsors Ceragon, Cyan, EXFO, Symmetricom, and Transmode.

Packet Backhaul registration has already exceeded its goal of 1,000.
Expected attendance is between 500 and 600 attendees. Registration is free.
To register for Packet Backhaul 2010 please visit:
www.lightreading.com/virtualbackhaul.

    Contact:
    Amy Averbook
    Director of Corporate Marketing
    Light Reading Inc.
    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 TechWeb

TechWeb, the global leader in technology media and professional
information, enables people and organizations to harness the transformative
power of technology. Through its three core businesses - media solutions,
marketing services and paid content - TechWeb produces the most respected and
consumed brands and media applications in the technology market. More than 14
million business and technology professionals (CIOs and IT managers, Web &
Digital professionals, Software Developers, Government decision makers, and
Telecom providers) actively engage in TechWeb's communities and information
resources monthly. TechWeb brands includes: global face-to-face events such
as Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and VoiceCon; award-winning online resources
such as InformationWeek, Light Reading, and Network Computing; and
market-leading InformationWeek, Wall Street & Technology, and Advanced
Trading magazines. TechWeb is a UBM company, a global provider of news
distribution and specialist information services, with a market
capitalization of more than US$2.5 billion.

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 integrated
events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in
more than 30 countries are organized 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 www.unitedbusinessmedia.com

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