FREMONT, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 8, 2015) - Ikanos Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKAN), a leading provider of advanced broadband semiconductor and software products for the connected home, has announced that Lionel Adnet, Vice President of Business Development and Carrier Relations, will speak at FBR's (NASDAQ: FBRC) Living in a Gigabit World Conference, taking place on June 11, 2015 at the Paley Center for Media in New York City.

As a featured speaker at the conference, Adnet will participate in a discussion led by infrastructure and equipment providers on building a gigabit world and will share Ikanos' views on this evolving market. The expert panel will touch on hot topics including: Software Defined Infrastructure, NFV, Small Cells, Wireless Last Mile, and Merchant Switch Silicon.

Who: Lionel Adnet, Vice President of Business Development and Carrier Relations, Ikanos

What: Infrastructure and Equipment Providers: Building a Gigabit World 

When: Thursday, June 11, 2015, 9:50 a.m. ET

Where: The Paley Center for Media, New York

About Lionel Adnet
Lionel Adnet has over 25 years of experience in the voice, video and data Telecom Equipment Networking industry serving the Broadband Access needs of Service Providers around the world.

Before joining Ikanos Communications in October 2014, Mr. Adnet held senior roles at Technicolor, Huawei Technologies and Alcatel-Lucent, including leading Alcatel Broadband xDSL Access activities for the Asia Pacific region in Shanghai, China, and developing Alcatel-Lucent Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) Ultra Broadband Fiber to the Premises business around the world, and with North American municipalities, Independent Operating Companies and Cable Operators.

Mr. Adnet holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York, USA as well as an Engineering Degree from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France.

About FBR & Co. 
FBR & Co. (NASDAQ: FBRC) provides investment banking, merger and acquisition advisory, institutional brokerage, and research services through its subsidiary FBR Capital Markets & Co. FBR focuses capital and financial expertise on the following industry sectors: consumer; diversified industrials; energy & natural resources; financial institutions; healthcare; insurance; real estate; and technology, media & telecom. FBR is headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with offices throughout the United States. For more information, please visit www.fbr.com.

About Ikanos Communications, Inc.
Ikanos Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKAN) is a leading provider of advanced broadband semiconductor and software products for the connected home. The company's broadband DSL, communications processors and other offerings power access infrastructure and customer premises equipment for many of the world's leading network equipment manufacturers and telecommunications service providers. For more information, visit www.ikanos.com.

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