Riverstone Networks and Lucent Technologies Keynote at the Light Reading Ethernet Expo Addresses Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions for Carriers Deploying Ethernet in Support of Business and Residential Services LONDON, April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- In a keynote address given this week at the Light Reading Ethernet Expo Europe, David Ginsburg, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, Riverstone Networks Inc., and Enrique Hernandez-Valencia, Bell Labs Fellow at Lucent Technologies, will discuss the market opportunities, technical challenges, and solutions for carriers seeking to maximize their new Ethernet investments. In this keynote, targeted at executives from Europe's leading service providers, Ginsburg will address the faster than expected growth of broadband deployments, the economic implications of this growth, and the need to future proof these deployments by pushing fiber as close to the subscriber as possible given financial considerations. He will also discuss the world of difference between third-generation broadband and the current second- generation copper-based buildouts and how they affect the delivery of true blended services that are personalized, rich and reliable across both wireline and wireless networks. Enrique Hernandez-Valencia will describe how the majority of carrier networks today require Ethernet to be deployed over a combination of SONET/SDH, WDM, copper, and fiber in support of the new carrier business model. He will build the case for adopting a mix of technologies to allow carriers to optimize new service deployment, while minimizing up-front CAPEX and ongoing OPEX. Hernandez-Valencia will also make a strong case for MPLS, VPLS, and policy management in support of these deployments, as well as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Resource Access and Control Facility (RACF) integration across optical/Ethernet transport networks. Lucent also will participate in a demonstration by Riverstone Networks of converged Ethernet technologies at the Expo, including Riverstone's new 15100 Ethernet Access Router as well as Lucent's optical/Ethernet transport infrastructure. Riverstone Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of carrier Ethernet infrastructure solutions for business and residential communications services. Riverstone's Ethernet router portfolio uniquely delivers the reliability that allows carriers to meet the triple play -- voice, video and data -- service requirements of their customers in a cost-effective and scalable way. Riverstone allows carriers to offer new services over existing revenue- generating networks permitting them to evolve to a next generation Ethernet infrastructure. Riverstone Networks Contacts: Inbar Lasser Raab Howard Kalt Vice President of Marketing Kalt Rosen & Co. 408-878-6500 415-397-2686 DATASOURCE: Riverstone Networks, Inc. CONTACT: Inbar Lasser Raab, Vice President of Marketing of Riverstone Networks, Inc., +1-408-878-6500; or Howard Kalt of Kalt Rosen & Co., +1-415-397-2686, for Riverstone Networks, Inc. Web site: http://www.riverstonenet.com/

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