Light Reading Podcasts

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Earnings season is in full force and Light Reading Editors Jeff Baumgartner, Mike Dano, Nicole Ferraro and Kelsey Ziser discuss which companies had a banner Q3 and others that hit some speed bumps in this Notebook Dump for the week ending November 4. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode features Shawn Parker, vice president of government affairs at  SiFi Networks : which has been building and operating open access fiber networks for about a decade, with 32 "FiberCities" currently in development across the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Alan Breznick reviews the Leading Lights Awards categories he judged and examines surprising trends that appeared in the submissions. In particular, Alan said there was a significant number of fixed wireless submissions this year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Telstra Americas' President Noah Drake joins the podcast with an update on the service provider's market focus in the Americas, where Telstra operates subsea cable networks and which regions it has pegged for growth. You can  download a lightly edited transcript of the podcast here . Here are a few topics we covered: Contrast between Drake's time at Zayo versus now at Telstra (00:39) Telstra...

Jim Brickmeier has seen the pay-TV industry evolve from its early foray into the worlds of video-on-demand (VoD) and digital ad insertion, the advent of the cloud DVR and into today's streaming era. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the Halloween edition of The Notebook Dump, Light Reading editors walk through the digital cemetery looking for gadget zombies and technologies that still haunt us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shekar Ayyar, chairman and CEO of Arrcus, sees a lot of upside for telcos wanting to create new network services. His optimism is rooted in the changes he sees in network infrastructure and a new kind of convergence between enterprise and service provider networks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner and Nicole Ferraro discuss the 2022 Leading Lights Awards categories they judged, the finalists they selected and trends they noticed in the submissions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of the recent surveys by Comviva Research, across 75 C-level telecom executives globally, suggests that 60% believe their BSS is not ready for future needs. #sponsored Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Weber, who once headed up video product for AT&T and its U-verse services, shifted gears years ago to take the CEO slot at Zone TV. These days, he's focused on an older TV idea – interactive television – that has found new interest thanks to IP connectivity and optimism about the category from both operators and programmers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While vendors and service providers have made much ado about secure access service edge (SASE), the technology framework is still in its nascent phase, according to Omdia Analysts Adeline Phua and Fernando Montenegro. "I think everybody's really excited about SASE because enterprises keep asking about it," said Phua. "It's got so much buzz in the market. And we're thinking that maybe adoption is r...

Light Reading's Phil Harvey discusses his recent tour of AT&T's central office. Phil also examines AT&T's edge strategy, public cloud partnership with Microsoft and provides an update on AT&T's FirstNet emergency response service. You can  download a lightly edited transcript of the podcast here . Here are a few topics we covered: Overview of Phil's tour of AT&T's central offi...

LAS VEGAS – #MWC22 – Tareq Amin, CEO of Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Symphony, discusses how he got Symware from being a reference architecture to a shipping product, with plans to deploy 30,000 units in Rakuten Mobile's network in Japan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pivotal Commware CEO Brian Deutsch discusses his company's new as-a-service offering, Pivotal Turnkey Services. The service, offered to Pivotal's network operator customers, aims to speed up deployments of fixed wireless access (FWA) networks that use mmWave technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading editors Jeff Baumgartner, Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser discuss subsea cable updates and Ciena and Alitbox's 800G deployment from Amsterdam to Copenhagen. The editors also discuss Phil's takeaways from his recent tour of AT&T's central office, AT&T's fiber subscriber base surpassing its non-fiber base, and Netflix's banner Q3 results in this recap of the work week ended Octobe...

Shopify has been using its e-commerce platform to provide an easy path for partners to sell products online for more than 15 years. Reach Mobile believes its platform offers something similar for the worlds of mobile, home broadband, the Internet of Things (IoT) and, more recently, connectivity for enterprises . "Reach is doing to the telecom networking industry what Shopify did to e-commerce," Re...

This episode features Cyndi Barrera, the sales vice president of SLED West at digital services and solutions provider  Presidio . She and her team work with and advise public sector clients on technology solutions to meet their specific needs. We discuss a project called  CFW Neighborhood  that Presidio worked on with Cisco and the city of Fort Worth, Texas, to help build out the ci...

Ciena and Altibox discuss their recent 800G deployment over 1,100 KM between Amsterdam and Copenhagen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subsea cable operators face the unique challenge of balancing future capacity demands while deploying and maintaining cable systems meant to last 25 to 30 years. Jim Fagan, chief strategy and revenue officer for Global Cloud Xchange, joins the podcast to discuss new technologies for future-proofing subsea cables, and examines which regions are exhibiting the most growth in bandwidth demands. You c...

Roz Roseboro, principal analyst for Omdia, joins the podcast to discuss her research on service provider use of the public cloud and whether SPs should try to be more like the hyperscalers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading editors Kelsey Ziser, Mike Dano, Jeff Baumgartner, Nicole Ferraro and Phil Harvey discuss DOCSIS 4.0 network upgrade costs, edge computing sites, and RDOF and SD-WAN updates in this recap of the work week ended October 14. The stories covered include: Analysts peg DOCSIS 4.0 network upgrade costs at $180 per home passed Airlines start asking for permanent changes to C-band 5G After t...

Connectivity is core to FiberLight's business, but the company, under CEO Chris Rabii, is pursuing a path to be much more.  FiberLight is in the midst of a plan to evolve from "a "largely construction-focused company, to one that's trying to be more compelling in the services arena," says Rabii, a former exec with Cablevision Lightpath and Altice Business who joined FiberLight roughly two yea...

Connecting Africa's Paula Gilbert provides an update on Safaricom's new network in Ethiopia, which will be the country's first private telecoms operator and end the country's decades-long telecoms monopoly. We also discuss why South Africa's government wants to turn off 2G and 3G by 2024 and 2025, respectively, but operators say it's too soon as about 60% of mobile traffic in South Africa still ru...

On this episode, we hear from Ryan Johnston, senior policy counsel for federal programs at  Next Century Cities . Ryan recently authored a report entitled  Resounding Silence: The Need For Local Insights In Federal Policymaking . The report takes a look at two FCC dockets – the 2018 small cell proceeding and the 2022 docket on ISPs in multi-tenant environments (MTEs) – to explore the FCC...