Call for Leading Lights Entries

NEW YORK -- Light Reading(http://www.lightreading.com), the world's leading online communicationspublication, today reiterated its call for nominees for the industry'sleading awards program, the Leading Lights Awards.

The deadline for Leading Lights Award nominations is September 28. Theawards program is completely free to enter and there are 10 exciting awardcategories in this year's program.

The awards categories are: Reader's Choice Person of the Year, BestInvestment Potential (public company), Best New Product (one each for bothpublic and private company), Best New Service (both public and privatecompany), Best Marketing (both public and private company), Best M&AStrategy (public company), and Top IPO or M&A Candidate (private company).

For complete details on the Leading Lights Awards, the venue, theAwards entry form, sponsorship opportunities, and the rules of the contest,go to: http://www.lightreading.com/leadinglights.

Light Reading's Leading Lights Awards will be announced at a specialgala dinner on Monday, October 15, 2007, following the first day of LightReading's Ethernet Expo in New York City. This change in venue will pairLight Reading's most successful conference series with the industry's mostprestigious awards program.Light Reading's reputation for fiercely independent analysis makes thisthe most credible and authoritative awards program in the industry - andprovides telecom companies with a superlative opportunity to evangelizetheir expertise and success.

Again, the deadline for Leading Lights Award nominations is September28.

Finalists for one category - the Reader's Choice Person of the Year -have already been announced, and the finalists profiled here: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=132369. For that category, reader votes will influence our editor's decision asto who wins the only individual award given out this year. To cast yourvote for Person of the Year, please visit: http://www.lightreading.com/survey_page.asp?survey_id=347.

Finalists for all other award categories will be announced during thefirst week in October.

Contact:
Amy Averbook
Director of Corporate Marketing
Light Reading
[email protected]
212-925-0020 x112
About Light Reading
Founded in 2000, Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com) is the ultimatesource for technology and financial analysis of the communicationsindustry, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, andreputation. It reaches an extensive audience of executives andtechnologists within the telecom and enterprise networking communities, aswell as the financial/industry analysts and investors who track thesesectors. Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August2005, and operates as a unit of CMP Technology.

About CMP
CMP (http://www.cmp.com) is a media and marketing solutions company servingthe technology industry. With the leading online, event, and print brandsin all technology market categories, and with services and tools that reachbeyond traditional advertising, CMP shapes and influences the technologyindustry worldwide. CMP publishes highly respected media brands such asTechWeb, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times, and TechOnline;produces major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, GameDeveloper Conference, and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and providesbusiness information and marketing services such as the InternationalCustomer Management Institute, Semiconductor Insights, and Second Lifeconsulting for technology marketers. CMP is a subsidiary of United BusinessMedia (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com), a global provider of news distributionand specialist information services with a market capitalization of morethan $3 billion. For more CMP news, go to cmp.com/news