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News Release from: International Engineering Consortium
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 October 2006
Forum draws thousands to Paris
The IEC Broadband World Forum Europe closed with attendance of nearly 6500 telecomms professionals from 120 countries.
The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) has revealed that its Broadband World Forum Europe closed with attendance of nearly 6500 telecomms professionals from 120 countries Sixty different service providers attended the conference and exhibition, which hosted more than 110 equipment vendors on the exhibition floor
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The event took place at CNIT La Defense, Paris with France Telecom as the official host sponsor.
IEC President John Janowiak stated: "It's satisfying to know we've created a rich marketplace for broadband opportunities in Europe".
"Exemplifying this is the strong exhibitor response in rebook".
Janowiak continued: "We sold out 95% of next year's exhibition floor in Berlin, Germany before the show ended last week".
Key sponsors of the show presented leading-edge technologies on the exhibition such as France Telecom (official host sponsor), Alcatel, Siemens, Accenture, Ericsson, Huawei, Cisco Systems, ECI, Italtel, Keymile, Motorola, NEC, PacketFront, ZTE, ADVA, AVM, Nokia, Pirelli, Tellabs, Visionael, Texas Instruments, Operax, radialpoint, Redback Networks, and more.
More than 250 leading industry experts spoke at the event providing the world-class programming at the educational conference including Keynoters Didier Lombard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, France Telecom Group; Francois Loos, Minister Delegate for Industry France; Alain Maloberti, Vice President, Network Architectures and Design, France Telecom Group, Mike Quigley, President and Chief Operating Officer, Alcatel; Jong-Lok Yoon, Senior Executive Vice President, Research and Development Group, KT.
In addition to its focus on broadband, the event included the co-located event, the WiMAX Global ComForum, devoted to the technology and business challenges in implementing WiMAX wireless broadband networks for fixed-wireless access and mobile broadband.
The InfoVision Awards also took place at the show recognising the industry's top innovators and the most successfully deployed products, services, and applications in broadband.
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