Epik Mellon - the QA Cafe Podcast

In this episode, I chat with Evgueni Tzvetanov of Verizon about our work at prpl Foundation, the future of the home gateway, and what we all want out of AI and home automation. 

In this episode I chat with Steve Scapicchio, one more denizen of the “fun zone” at QA Cafe and our VP of Global Sales about moving from engineering to sales, keeping strong relationships, and customer success as a vision.

In this Episode, Diana Bikbaeva of Marashlian and Donahue, a boutique law firm focused on telecomms and startups, talks about her passion for AI law and the brave new world we find ourselves in. 

In this episode, I chat with my good friend Mauro Tilocca of Telecom Italia about the new world of automation for broadband, the benefits of AI, and how our love of language translates to a love of networking. 

This episode we shot at the Broadband Forum Q4 Meeting in Thailand! I chat with Ken Pyle, newly appointed marketing director at the Broadband Forum, about our life in media and what it’s like to see standards from the outside.

In this episode, I sit down with Sarah Lachance, Director of Identity and Access Management at Kenvue, about cyber security, coming into tech as an outsider, and how you can never take people out of the equation. 

In this episode, I chat with Gunther Klessinger of Axiros about managed broadband, quantum physics, and the importance of standards in helping operators stay relevant.

In this episode Jason is at the NetworkX 2023 tradeshow in Paris, meeting up with João Freitas at Deutsche Telekcom to talk about how this podcast got started and how the revolution of app-enabled smart routers is going to change things for operators and broadband users. 

In this episode I chat with Sophie Pool at DT to talk about the consumer networking experience, being able to relate to it as a user, and why Wi-Fi product testing isn’t really as boring as it sounds.

In this episode, my long time friend and “partner in crime” at the Broadband Forum John Blackford and I talk about the dichotomy of standards and open-source software, and why soccer is the world’s most popular sport.

In this episode, I sit down with Steen Enevoldsen of Icotera to talk about the view from both sides of the vendor/operator relationship and nerding out about home networking tech.

In this episode, I chat with Jussi Kiviniemi, self-described Wi-Fi janitor and CEO of Hamina Wireless, about the state and future of Wi-Fi networks, how they got to be where they are, and how network planning is key to getting them to work well. 

In this episode I talk with my long time friend Carla Lauter about the state of tech media, the education gap, and how connectivity is fueling amazing new technologies in our most critical industries.

In this episode I sit with Matt Langlois, my colleague here at QA Cafe to talk about the past, about being an audiophile, and why Tool is a metaphor for the “tinkerer’s spirit”.

In this episode we talk to Melissa Simpler of Nokia about the twists and turns of the broadband industry as a whole and why we stay in it after all these years.

In this episode we talk to Bob Carrick of Calix about the evolution of the managed broadband subscriber experience, why we know WAY too much about it, and the opportunities that service providers of all tiers can take advantage of today.

In this episode, we talk to Joakim Bennerholt of IOPSYS, about the evolution of home gateways, what we all want as broadband users,  how the open-source world is changing things for the better.

In this episode we talk to the legendary Tim Spets of Nokia how standards truly bring people together to innovate tomorrows technology.

In this episode, we talk to Paul Keator of Dish Networks about the inside realities for service providers, and what he’s learned from the field.

In this episode, Jason talks with Bjorn Ivar Teigan, Head of Research at Domos, one of the first “latency management” software companies, about how important latency is to the actual network experience, how bandwidth blasting might be hurting you, and what the networking and standards world looks like from academia.

In this episode, we sit down with Jeremy Brown, VP of Threat Analysis at Trinity Cyber, to chat about packets, stopping bad guys, and how anyone with a “troubleshooting mindset” should consider getting into cybersecurity - regardless of where they come from.

In our premier episode, we chat with Tim Winters, CTO of QA Cafe about how he got into the crazy world of networking, plus a behind-the-scenes-look at the evolution of IPv6 and the people behind it, especially in broadband networks.