RCR Wireless News

Emergencies can strike anywhere and it's absolutely critical that first responders have robust communication capabilities. Jen Neenan, the chief operating officer at Parsec Technologies, discusses some of the industry's biggest challenges around supplying reliable connectivity in emergency situations and how the company is helping to solve them.

In this episode of Will 5G Change the World? Telecom Infra Project Chief Marketing Officer Eugina Jordan discusses how TIP's community-driven approach to test and validation of deployment-ready disaggregating network solutions is driving innovation in the telecoms area. Jordan touches on TIP's approach to enabling Industry 4.0 use cases, as well as the evolution of the wireless workforce as networ...

What is the app economy? And what role do service providers play in it? Tune in to hear Melissa Zeloof, VP of marketing at ironSource, answer these and other questions.

Jill Stelfox, who is the CEO of Panzura, is the only female CEO in the data management space. She comes on the podcast to discuss why it's important to change that. She also shares insights into how businesses can better prepare for the many changes taking place in data management and security.

Airgain's Director of Channel Management Tracy Liu explains the company's shift from selling components to selling systems and solutions and what this transition suggests about the wireless industry at large.

Kajeet's Derrick Frost discusses the company's new private 5G managed service offering, including technical details, enterprise buying patterns, and how this new line of business maps to Kajeet's focus on education, healthcare and other key verticals.

On this twofer, Kyndryl's Global Practice Leader for Security and Resiliency Kris Lovejoy and Chief Innovation Officer/CTO Global Security and Resiliency Rhonda Childress discuss how technology sprawl has led to a shift in cybersecurity best practices. While prevention is still important, enabling cohesive architectures and establishing resiliency and recovery tactics is becoming far more critical...

In this episode of Will 5G Change the World? we hear from Chris Vassallo of ExteNet Systems about how the digital divide is more than a rural problem. Pockets of dense urban areas are also underserved by cellular connectivity which has sweeping implications for educational inclusivity, economic mobility and more.

Clearfield's CEO Cheri Beranek discusses how ongoing supply-chain constraints are impacting the fiber industry and explores to what extent federal funding will help address this and other challenges related to building out fiber assets and closing the digital divide.

Matrixx Software CEO Glo Gordon discusses the business challenges and opportunities that COVID-19 presented for the company and tips for establishing an inclusive and supportive work culture.

Jennifer Kyriakakis, the founder & CMO of Matrixx Software, defines the modern telco and lays out why 5G is a catalyst for the changes they are undergoing. She also explains why things like cloud-native and agnostic architecture should be at the heart of this transformation.

On this episode, Heather Ritchie, the chief marketing officer at Ubicquia, uses specific smart city projects around the world as examples of the benefits, and the considerations, such initiatives can bring. She also discusses how recent developments, like COVID-19 and 5G, have finally gotten many smart city efforts out of "project purgatory."

This week's guest, Donna Johnson, the SVP of Marketing at Cradlepoint, discusses the evolution of SD-WAN over the years and how it is adapting to support 5G networks. She also details the progress of private cellular networks and the importance of having empathy in a leadership role.

GenCell Energy's Marketing Content and Strategy Manager Shelli Zargary discusses the evolution of the company's fuel cell solutions as it sought to better address its own and its customer's sustainability goals.

Caban Systems founder and CEO Alexandra Rasch details the energy-as-a-service model and how it can help operators to achieve their sustainability goals, while lowering costs.

Beyond smartphone-specific use cases, cellular coverage inside buildings is key to unlocking the vast potential of the internet of things and deriving the value that flows from real-time, data-driven decision making.   In the final episode of this limited podcast series, Nextivity Chief Commercial Officer Stephen Kowal reiterates why businesses need to invest in in-building cellular coverage, the...

In the latest episode of this podcast series, Nextivity's CCO Stephen Kowal discusses how in-building cellular coverage underlines the digital transformation of key verticals. Beyond talk, text and data, cellular coverage supports a wide range of internet of things use cases that can drive meaningful change—and attendant business outcomes—in sectors like hospitality, retail, logistics and manufact...

As network operators continue the shift to 5G and as they look for ways to bring the network closer to their customers, a call for simplifying network management has been issued. Gina Nienaber, the director of Product Marketing, Routing and Switching Portfolio at Ciena, comes on the podcast to discuss how the company is helping operators navigate some of the industry's most pressing trends and cha...

This past April, Preeti Ohri Khemani was elected chair of the NFC Forum. On this episode, Preeti delves into the possible use cases for NFC, or Near Field Communication, that go beyond the well-know tap-to-pay and provides an overview of the current standards climate around this technology.

Akanksha Sharma, the global head ESG of Sustainability, Social Impact, Governance & Policy at Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL), details the company's sustainability goals, how it plans to get there and also, some key takeaways that every technology company should consider.

Twilio's Head of Communications Policy Rebecca Thompson discusses the importance of having a global business outlook even if you're not a global company, especially in these uncertain times. She also explores Twilio's role in regulatory affairs like the FCC's crackdown on robocalls and less considered issues around phone number exhaust.

In the second episode of this series, Nextivity's Stephen Kowal, chief commercial officer, goes over the company's unique approach to hybrid active DAS and how this differs from traditional DAS. Kowal provides a walk-through of how this solution is deployed and discusses the ability to scale up coverage area and even expand system capacity. The takeaway is that focusing on performance and simplifi...

Eugina Jordan, the VP of of marketing at Parallel Wireless, comes on the podcast to provide a few reality checks about Open RAN and poses some questions of her own .She also shares some exciting company news.

In this limited series presented in partnership between RCR Wireless News and Nextivity, we explore how in-building cellular coverage is a fundamental piece of enterprise digital transformation that is less costly and faster to deploy than most enterprises realize. In this episode, Nextivity Chief Commercial Officer Stephen Kowal discusses the current state of in-building cellular, as well as the...

5G networks will result in more data, and so testing needs to be more efficient. But at the same time, 5G networks will have critical applications running on them, and so testing also has to be more accurate. Jaana Tengman, director of Product Management at Infovista, comes on the podcast to discuss this balancing act in more detail, as well as how things like automation are helping.