Broadband Pulse

In Lightwave’s day three daily podcast for Fiber Connect 2025, we're breaking down the key announcements, presentations, and conversations at the Nashville show. Some of the highlights of the day included:  Frontier Communications’ Scott Mispagel Receives 2025 Connect the Unconnected Award FBA’s state broadband summit T-Mobile brings its Fiber Home Internet service Fiber Broadband Association prev...

In Lightwave’s day two podcast for Fiber Connect 2025, we're breaking down the key announcements, presentations, and conversations at the Nashville show. Some of the highlights of the day included:  Economic Impact Underscores Importance of NTIA BEAD Program Nokia's co-existence solution for 10G, 25G, and 50G PON The marriage of fiber and AI Enhancing middle mile networks  Ting emphasizes communit...

In the first episode Lightwave’s daily podcast for Fiber Connect 2025, we're breaking down the key announcements, presentations, and conversations at the Nashville show. Some of the highlights of the day included:  Keynote speeches from Sasktel, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn and Ting Internet Sean Buckley’s hosting of the Tribal Broadband: Key Considerations and Expectations Creating the Framework...

In this new Broadband Pulse podcast, Lightwave editor Sean Buckley talked to David Zumwalt, President and CEO of WISPA.  During this episode, Zumwalt addressed how the federal government could simplify the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program. He also addressed the FCC's move to pull to ban all bulk billing agreements in multi-tenant environments (MTEs).  About the Podcast  In the...

In Broadband Pulse podcast's special Memorial Day holiday edition, we’re rounding up new broadband builds from various providers over the past week.  We’re tracking new broadband deployments from altafiber, Bluepeak, Comcast, Fidium, GoNetspeed, IdeaTek, Kinetic and Stellar Broadband. We also highlight two key broadband developments made over the past week that will likely alter the competitive la...

In this episode of the Broadband Pulse podcast, host Sean Buckley, editor in chief of Lightwave and BTR, talked to Sean Baillie, SVP of Carrier, Channel and Hyperscale for Consolidated Communications about new wholesale opportunities for the data center services market. As data center connectivity demands rise due to AI's emergence, Consolidated has responded by expanding its platform and deliveri...

In this episode of the Broadband Pulse podcast, we talked with Chris Bonavita, VP of strategy and technology adoption for GTT, about the provider's vision to simplify enterprise customers’ consumption of managed services.   Last September, GTT launched GTT Envision, a global technology platform for connecting, orchestrating, virtualizing, and automating enterprise networks. Built on its network ba...

In this episode, we discussed how AI can be helpful to small to medium-sized businesses. We feature Michael Caralis, Verizon's VP of business markets. With over 20 years of experience driving success in multi-billion-dollar business units, he oversees Verizon’s inside and digital sales teams, ensuring effective implementation of company strategies and exceptional customer service. Additionally, he...

In this episode, we talked to two experts who are driving innovation and collaboration in the optical networking industry from the Optical Internetworking Forum: Nathan Tracy, president of OIF and Jeff Hutchins, OIF Secretary/Treasurer & Physical and Link Layer (PLL) Working Group Energy Efficient Interfaces (EEI) Vice Chair (Ranovus) We talked about OIF's activities during the OFC 2025 trades...

In this latest episode of the Broadband Pulse podcast, we speak with Terry Thorn, Vice President of Commercial Operations for Ayar Labs. Ayar has been developing new optical I/O systems to accommodate new AI models, which are expected to grow exponentially. Optical I/O technology can enhance link density within and across nodes. Optical I/O enables nodes to connect at scale, unlike traditional int...

Broadband Pulse is tracking new broadband build-out developments in this new weekly news roundup series.  We're tracking new builds from various providers, including Comcast, Fidium, Glo Fiber, Kinetic, Lyte Fiber, Metronet, Right Fiber and Surf Internet.. You can also read about these deployments in Lightwave+BTR's weekly Building Broadband feature on our website, www.lighwaveonline.com .     

In this episode of Lightwave+BTR's vshow daily podcast for Day Three of OFC 2025, we looked at the following key trends and news headlines:  Arelion sets sights on selling more services to businesses Quantifi Photonics’ CEO sees growth, culture synergies arising from Teradyne acquisition Optical CEOs say flexibility is key to navigating tariff battles Furukawa Electric rebrands its fiber cable bus...

In Lightwave+BTR's daily podcast for Day Three of OFC 2025, we tracked various trends and news from the show, including:  Retym raises 180 million to drive AI Infrastructure Innovation Ciena, HyperLight and McGill University trial 3.2 terabits, 448 Gigabits per lane IMDD 2km transmission Open ROADM multi-source agreement members demonstrated an 800G pluggable ROADM link CEOs agree that the optical...

In the first episode Lightwave+BTR's daily podcast for Day One of OFC 2025, we're breaking down the key announcements, presentations, and conversations at the San Francisco show. Some of the highlights of the day included:  Quantum takes center stage at OFC 2025 LPO MSA releases Linear Pluggable Optical Modules specification OIF celebrates optical industry interoperability at OFC Ethernet Alliance...

In this latest episode of the Broadband Pulse podcast, we speak with Sev Sadura, VP of product management at Belden. Belden has been going through a transition. The company, well-known in the optical and broadband arenas as a supplier of cabling and other infrastructure, has recently completed its acquisition of Precision Optical Technologies. Precision brings several things into the Belden fold....

Dave Stehlin, CEO of TIA addresses new opportunities for broadband under the new presidential administration.  Stehlin is a veteran of the telecommunications and broadband industry. Earlier in his career, he led two pioneering Ethernet startups: Ceterus Networks and later Overture Networks. He was also a proud member of our country's service. Before coming into the networking industry, Dave was a...

Broadband Pulse is tracking new broadband build-out developments in this new weekly news roundup series.  We're tracking new builds from various providers, including BroadbandOne, eX² Technology, Fidium, GoNetspeed, HyperFiber, Intrepid Fiber, Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) and Vero Networks. You can also read about these deployments in our Lightwave+BTR's weekly Building Broadband featur...

Broadband Pulse is tracking new broadband build-out developments in this new weekly news roundup series.  We're tracking new builds from various providers, including Comcast, Fidium, ImOn Communications, Lumos, Nexstream, and Vero Fiber. You can also read about these deployments in our weekly Building Broadband feature on our website at www.lighwaveonline.com . 

Broadband Pulse is tracking new broadband build-out developments in this new weekly news roundup series.  We're tracking new builds from various providers, including: AT&T, Brightspeed, eX² Technology, Fidium, GoNetspeed, Metronet, PhireLink and Vero Fiber. You can also read about these deployments in out weekly Building Broadband feature on our website at www.lighwaveonline.com . 

In this latest episode of Broadband Pulse, we talked to Stephen Douglas, Spirent’s Head of Market Strategy. Spirent recently released its sixth annual 5G Outlook Report, based on analysis and takeaways from 415 new 5G engagements globally in 2024. During the episode, Douglas talked about some findings from that study.

Clearfield, a fiber optic connectivity and management product designer, has made a name for itself, helping service providers reduce the high costs associated with a fiber optic network. The company has successfully tailored its products for rural and community-based broadband networks. Like other companies, Clearfield continues to evolve. During this episode, we talked to Anis Khemakhem, who beca...

Alianza is looking to help traditional service providers abandon their traditional methods. The voice-centric service provider, which started serving regional operators, is gaining momentum with Tier 1 operators like Lumen. The service provider is leveraging Alianza’s cloud communications platform  in its Cloud Communications offering. By purchasing Metaswitch, a once dominant player in the Softsw...

Rob Laudati, who joined Render Networks as vice president of product and partnerships in the fall of 2023, shared his perspective on his first year with the company and the broadband trends we will see in 2025.   Laudati came to the Render role with extensive experience in executive products and partnerships in the geospatial and infrastructure domains. Before coming to Render, he served as Esri's...

Since no two service providers are the same, nor should their DWDM solutions be, XKL has taken a consultative approach that considers every service provider's network expansion and upgrade needs and collaborates to design the ideal optical DWDM solution. The company has developed a “set and forget” DWDM solution.  During this episode we talked to two key optical networking experts:  Chad Lamb, Chi...

Seneca Mullins, President of AFL US Services, where he oversees six distinct service companies under the AFL umbrella. Seneca has been with AFL for 18 years, driving innovation and excellence across AFL’s diverse service lines. AFL Wireless Services recently had a big win with Allegiant Stadium, the home of the Las Vegas Raiders. We’ll talk about that during the podcast today as one of the key hig...