Optimum Lightpath Expands Executive Team with Appointment of Telecom Industry Veterans

Optimum Lightpath Expands Executive Team with Appointment of Telecom Industry Veterans

Company Names Troy H. Glick Vice President of Product Development and David O. Strauss Vice President of Marketing

Optimum Lightpath, the next-generation business broadband service provider of Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC), today announced the addition of Troy H. Glick and David O. Strauss to the executive management team. Mr. Glick will serve as vice president of product development and Mr. Strauss will be vice president of marketing. In their new roles, Mr. Glick and Mr. Strauss will be responsible for the strategic development and marketing of the company’s innovative business telecommunications services.

“The additions of Troy Glick and David Strauss will further accelerate Optimum Lightpath’s leadership role in driving adoption of Metro Ethernet services and meeting the growing demand for high-speed, high-bandwidth business services,” said Dave Pistacchio, executive vice president and general manager, Optimum Lightpath. “In their exceptional work histories, both Mr. Glick and Mr. Strauss have shown tremendous capabilities with regards to product development and branding and marketing, respectively. It is a pleasure to welcome them to Optimum Lightpath’s executive team, and I have every confidence they will both be instrumental in our continued success.”

In his role as vice president of product development, Mr. Glick will set Optimum Lightpath’s product development and management strategies, ensuring products are properly aligned with company goals and enthusiastically accepted by the marketplace. Mr. Glick joins Optimum Lightpath with 17 years of business and product development experience in broadband and telecommunications, including co-founding and managing Broadband Assurance, a firm focused on broadband solutions for branch office and teleworkers. Mr. Glick also previously directed Time Warner Cable’s commercial data marketing and product management functions.

Mr. Strauss will oversee the company’s branding and marketing strategy, including all initiatives related to interactive and direct marketing, advertising, public relations and sales support. Prior to joining Optimum Lightpath, Mr. Strauss was worldwide program director of partner marketing for IBM’s Systems and Technology Group. Mr. Strauss also held senior marketing posts at Sprint PCS, AT&T Wireless Services and American Express.

About Optimum Lightpath

Optimum Lightpath, a business telecommunications services division of Cablevision Systems Corporation, uses the power of its reliable and resilient fully fiber optic network to deliver converged data, Internet and voice solutions to businesses throughout the New York metropolitan area. Since its formation 18 years ago, Optimum Lightpath built an advanced Fiber-to-the-business-Premises network extending more than 2,500 route miles throughout the tri-state area. As a result of owning and maintaining this state-of-the-art network, Optimum Lightpath is able to reliably provide scalable, high-capacity IP-based Metro Ethernet services that support high bandwidth data, Internet and voice applications and optimize the enterprise customer’s quality of experience – at lower prices than traditional offerings.

Optimum Lightpath has been recognized for eight straight years by the New York State Public Service Commission for delivering highly personalized customer service superior to the competition. Winner of the Metro Ethernet Forum’s 2006 Service Provider of the Year Award for Outstanding Innovation, Optimum Lightpath became one of the first service providers in the world and the only North American MSO to earn Carrier Ethernet certification from the Metro Ethernet Forum in April 2006. For more information, visit www.optimumlightpath.com.

About Cablevision

Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) is one of the nation’s leading entertainment and telecommunications companies. Its cable television operations serve more than 3 million households in the New York metropolitan area. The company’s advanced telecommunications offerings include its iO: Interactive Optimum® digital television, Optimum Online high-speed Internet, Optimum Voice digital voice-over-cable, and its Optimum Lightpath integrated business communications services. Cablevision’s Rainbow Media Holdings LLC operates several successful programming businesses, including AMC, IFC, WE tv and other national and regional networks. In addition to its telecommunications and programming businesses, Cablevision owns Madison Square Garden and its sports teams, the New York Knicks, Rangers and Liberty. The company also operates New York’s famed Radio City Music Hall, and owns and operates Clearview Cinemas.
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