Today, many fixed line carriers are making large investments in Ethernet access networks. The fact is Ethernet is rapidly becoming the preferred choice for wide area data connectivity for businesses of all sizes. Designed to address the specific needs of the wholesale communications market. It supports both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations and enables fixed carriers to extend the reach of their networks to provide Ethernet based services to potential customers, while at the same time equipping their infrastructure to achieve the margins they want. Indeed, fixed carriers that can offer Ethernet connectivity to key cell site locations today, or who can work with wireless operators on Ethernet-based connectivity roadmaps, have a large opportunity in this environment to win new business. Their first target should be to lock mobile operators into their services for the foreseeable future. Mobile operators have historically relied on leased-based radio access network solutions, but the prohibitive operational cost of using E1/T1s to backhaul mobile data traffic has been forcing many to consider building their own IP-based backhaul infrastructures. The disadvantages to self-build are becoming more prominent, however.		They include the speed with which mobile operators need to deploy additional capacity in their backhaul networks, the unpredictability of mobile data demand in different geographies over the next few years and potential problems implementing the most promising, but relatively immature, Carrier Ethernet technology. This is why many mobile operators are now looking for carrier partners prepared to take on the risk of deploying new Ethernet-based access networks, while reaping the rewards of leveraging such networks for multiple customers. The Ethernet Wholesale Summit will be held from 9 to 12 February 2010 at the Marriott Paris Rive Gauche, together with the worldwide leader events MPLS & Ethernet World Congress and Carrier Ethernet Workshop. The conference will welcome experts and key players in this new market. They will address technical issues for synchronisation, network convergence or migration towards LTE and will describe the standardization process. Service providers will moreover discuss the way they have built a wholesale offering specifically targeted to mobile operators backhauling. The Conference agenda is online