Chuck Kaplan, Narad Networks' chief operating officer, will be a featured presenter in the panel, "Getting Down To Business: Cable's Lucrative Commercial Services Opportunity," during the Kagan VOIP Summit, April 27, in New York.   What: Kaplan will discuss major market drivers for commercial voice services and how cable operators can execute on the opportunity using their existing cable plant. He will draw from Narad's recently-completed research with a third-party consultancy to discuss how the commercial services' revenue is segmented across the cable plant, the bandwidth demands associated with commercial voice and data, and what technology tool-sets are available to help cable operators capitalize on this growing opportunity.   Where: Helmsley Park Lane Hotel, New York   When: Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 11:30 a.m.   About Narad Networks Narad Networks, Inc. provides cable operators with cost-effective solutions to create new, managed, symmetric capacity on existing cable networks. Narad enables the delivery of highly profitable broadband voice and data services over cable infrastructure while minimizing capital expenditures and accelerating free cash flow. The company's solution leverages the previously unusable frequency spectrum to overlay secure, switched Ethernet onto existing HFC networks.  The solution can be installed in phases, only adding equipment to those portions of the plant that lie directly between the node and the business customer. Narad's solution enables cable operators to offer services such as Voice-over IP, T1/E1 voice, symmetric broadband Ethernet up to 100 Mbps, and virtual private networks. The Narad solution adds 400 Mbps symmetric capacity to each HFC node. Business customers include small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), mobile and WiFi operators, enterprise customers, schools and municipalities.  Founded in July 2000 and based in Westford, Massachusetts, Narad Networks is a privately held company with venture funding from Polaris Venture Partners, Argo Global Capital, and other leading venture capital firms.