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ECI Telecom And Horsebridge Host Joint Workshop At Technosummits' Digital Convergence Summit London 2009

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -13 November 2009. TechnoSummits, organiser of this year’s Digital Convergence Summit, taking place in London on the 25th November 2009 at the Courthouse Hotel, have announced that ECI Telecom and Horsebridge are jointly hosting a co-located convergence workshop on the “vision of a converged network future”.

ECI Telecom is a leading supplier of networking infrastructure for carrier and service provider networks worldwide. From tier-one national network operators to city carriers, ECI's equipment serves as the platform for key applications including business services, voice, video and wireless backhaul.

Horsebridge founded in 2000, and focused on communications network solutions, delivering strategic consulting advice, operational performance, support and delivered solutions. Clients include most of the major telecom operators throughout Europe, with a range of modular services and covering a wide range of technologies and their service applications.

The 30 minute co-located workshop is going to be held at 14:20 pm at the Chamber 1 of the Courthouse Hotel, 19-21 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7HL and will feature the following agenda.

14:20     Presentation 15mins - Technology Approach to Convergence held by Dave Wilkinson.

14:35    E-DEMO 15mins - Access to the ECI EDEMO platform with the ECI and Horsebridge Team fielding questions.

Craig Newton, Sales and marketing director at Horsebridge said that “Convergence has always been at the forefront of the evolution of the data network and many influences combine to drive this evolution. With the convergence of services comes the need for a network architecture that can combine all the features required of all the technologies into a ubiquitous service delivery infrastructure. This workshop will demonstrate how operators can lower Capex and Opex whilst increasing ARPU and establishing new service offerings”

Trevor Smith, Managing Director at ECI in the UK also commented, “ECI is committed in providing an effective platform for key applications including business services, voice, video, and wireless backhaul and our focus is on optimizing the way carriers transition their networks to the Next Generation network platforms. With this workshop, we hope to highlight some of the critical issues and challenges that face operators in this increasing convergent world.”

Speakers on the main conference also include Bill Scott from easeltv, Arjang Zadeh of Azdio, Mark Boyd of BBH, Cesar Bachelet of Anaylysys Mason, Myles Macbean from Disney, Elena Branet from Microsoft, Richard Halton from the BBC, Sylvain Thevenot of Talk Talk Group, Christian Lindholm from Fjord, David MacQueen from Strategy Analytics, Robert Hamilton from Google, Tim Hussain from Sky, Mark Loughran from Nokia and Julia DiMambro from Cherrymedia.

For further details of this event, please contact Joseph de Villiers at jdv@technosummits.com or please visit www.technosummits.com

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