The International Engineering Consortium’s (IEC) Broadband World Forum Europe closed last week with nearly 6500 information and communication technology professionals and more than 110 exhibiting companies

PARIS -- 17 October 2006 – The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) today announced that its Broadband World Forum Europe closed with attendance of nearly 6500 telecom professionals from 120 countries. Sixty different service providers attended the conference and exhibition, which hosted more than 110 equipment vendors on the exhibition floor. The event took place at CNIT La Défense, 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 ninety-five percent 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 recognizing the industry’s top innovators and the most successfully deployed products, services, and applications in broadband.

Nearly 300 industry journalists and analysts covered breaking news and product announcements that place at the Broadband World Forum Europe.

For complete information including recordings of keynote addresses, photos, news coverage, executive interviews, InfoVision-winning products, TecPreviews, and more, visit www.iec.org/events/2006/bbwf/ or contact Lisa Reyes at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or Howard Jones in Europe at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .