Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen: No Words for Huawei

TechWeb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the leading research-led media company serving the global communications marketplace, today announced that the third segment of its broadband video interview with Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen is online, right here:

http://www.lightreading.com/video.asp?doc_id=187243

The Alcatel-Lucent chief tells Light Reading's International Managing Editor, Ray Le Maistre, that Alcatel-Lucent's professional services and its capabilities in IP and optical networking integration are top-notch. And, while he wouldn't comment on foreign competitors, it's apparent that he feels Alcatel-Lucent has plenty to offer the market, even with all the changes taking place in the networks of its biggest customers.

The third interview concludes our series of chats with Mr. Verwaayen. The first interview in the series is available right here:

  http://www.lightreading.com/video.asp?doc_id=186976

  The second interview in the series is available right here:

  http://www.lightreading.com/video.asp?doc_id=187126



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  Light Reading
  212 600-3373
  averbook@lightreading.com


  About Light Reading

Founded in 2000, Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) is the leading online media, research, and focused event company serving the $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.

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