The Cabling Podcast

Arnold Offner, strategic marketing manager with Phoenix Contact and a member of the Single Pair Ethernet Consortium, delivers an enlightening conversation about the current state of Single Pair Ethernet products and solutions. There may be more SPE products on the market than you realize, and potential users will have the opportunity to see SPE products in action at multiple trade shows in 2025. T...

On May 6, the TIA Fiber Optic Technology Consortium (FOTC) hosted a webinar on the topic of fiber polarity . Rodney Casteel, systems engineering manager with CommScope, delivered that webinar, which is now available for on-demand viewing. Leading up to the event, we sat down with Casteel to discuss how and why fiber polarity continues to challenge technicians and network owners. He explains that t...

Recently we had the opportunity to speak in-depth with highly accomplished industry professionals  Brian Ensign —a long-time leader of people and organizations;  Kevallyn Paskos —who embodies the future of what the industry can become; and  Dave Sanders —a pioneer who has guided thousands along their professional paths. We sat down with each individually, for wide-ranging conversations about what...

Concert Technologies’ founder and CEO Dennis Mazaris, along with director of sales and marketing Zach Haverty, visit The Cabling Podcast to reflect on what has driven the company to complete 650,000 technology rollouts since its founding. Mazaris describes the company’s founding and evolution as a specialist in telecommunications project management. Haverty adds detail about the importance of acti...

Mara Ervin, who recently founded Mara Jade Consulting , has spent decades serving the technology and business needs of data center operators and practitioners. From her roots in fiber-optic cabling to the formation of her multi-dimensional consultancy, Mara puts her experience and her connections to work solving data centers’ toughest problems. Listen to this episode to hear from Mara about the fa...

The Standards Explorer, available as a free resource from the TIA Fiber Optics Tech Consortium , is a valuable tool for anyone who plans, specifies, designs, installs, or manages fiber-optic networks. This conversation with the Standards Explorer 's architect, Valerie Maguire, along with the TIA FOTC's Liz Goldsmith, dives into the tool, its history, and its uses for fiber-networking professionals...

For the new episode of The Cabling Podcast, CI&M sits down with IEEE-SA's George Zimmermann and John D'Ambrosia. ( Full bios here. ) Here’s a timeline of topics George and John discuss on the podcast: 00:40 - George Zimmerman introduction. 2:09 - John D'Ambrosia introduction. 3:37 - Panel question one: Broadly speaking, over Ethernet technology's 50 years, how have IEEE standards worked to shape a...

For the latest episode of the Cabling Podcast, CI&M sat down for a discussion with Mungree Singh, MBA, RCDD, CBRS-CPI, Systems Engineering Manager - West for global network infrastructure provider CommScope. A technical expert in cabling and connectivity physical infrastructure for information communications and technology (ICT) and data center deployments, at work Singh has achieved noteworthy su...

For this episode of The Cabling Podcast, senior editor Matt Vincent interviews  Alcatraz AI  CEO Tina D'Agostin to discuss the company's flagship "hardware as a service" platform incorporating its facial biometrics access control technology, the Rock. The platform aims to transform building security by leveraging robust artificial intelligence and analytics capabilities. The company says the Rock...

For this episode, we bring you a topically relevant recent interview from The Cabling Podcast's sibling in Endeavor Business Media , the Smart Buildings Technology Podcast . For the interview, senior editor Matt Vincent sits down with Tommy Linstroth, founder and CEO of Green Badger, a provider of a SaaS with comprehensive data analytics capabilities used to automate and easily report LEED complia...

Earlier this month, Cabling Installation & Maintenance's  Cabling Podcast  sat down with  Cisco's Peter Jones, Ethernet Alliance chair, and Intel's Sam Johnson, the consortium's High Speed Networking (HSN) subcommittee co-chair  for a discussion of the latest industry trends and technology advancements emanating from the Ethernet Alliance (EA) -- of which there's been no shortage. With all the hig...

Earlier this month, Cabling Installation & Maintenance's  Cabling Podcast  sat down with  Cisco's Peter Jones, Ethernet Alliance chair, and Intel's Sam Johnson, the consortium's High Speed Networking (HSN) subcommittee co-chair  for a discussion of the latest industry trends and technology advancements emanating from the Ethernet Alliance (EA) -- of which there's been no shortage. Ethernet Chair ...

Josh Snowhorn is founder and CEO at Quantum Loophole , an operator of data center campuses in the gigawatt scale. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Snowhorn's key founding and executive positions include time at Terremark, Verizon (NYSE: VZ), Cincinnati Bell, and CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE). Snowhorn founded the Global Peering Forum, the annual meeting for the Internet interconnection and pe...

Last month, CI&M 's co-publication in Endeavor Business Media, Broadband Technology Report , sat down for a Zoom interview with Dell'Oro Group vice president Jeff Heynen, renowned market analyst for the broadband access and home networking industries. This episode of The Cabling Podcast delivers the audio from that talk, as we seek to give our audience of information and communications technology...

For the latest episode of The Cabling Podcast, Cabling Installation & Maintenance sat down for a 2-part talk with Matt Koch, chief information officer for Allbridge, a provider of an integrated property technology, i.e. proptech, platform for smart buildings that integrates functions for design and planning, engineering, installation, and managed services and support. Building industry segments se...

For the latest episode of The Cabling Podcast, Cabling Installation & Maintenance sat down for a 2-part talk with Matt Koch, chief information officer for Allbridge, a provider of an integrated property technology, i.e. proptech, platform for smart buildings that integrates functions for design and planning, engineering, installation, and managed services and support. Building industry segments se...

In this 2-part episode of the Cabling Podcast, Cabling Installation & Maintenance senior editor Matt Vincent chats with Kam Patel, director of hyperscale and service provider data center solutions for CommScope. Patel has been with CommScope for more than 20 years in a variety of business development, engineering, marketing, operations, product management and strategy roles, and is the author of n...

In this 2-part episode of the Cabling Podcast, Cabling Installation & Maintenance senior editor Matt Vincent chats with Kam Patel, director of hyperscale and service provider data center solutions for CommScope. Patel has been with CommScope for more than 20 years in a variety of business development, engineering, marketing, operations, product management and strategy roles, and is the author of n...

This month's Cabling Podcast brings you an in-depth, 2-part interview with Dr. Curtis Knittle, Vice President of Wired Technologies at CableLabs. As VP of Wired Technologies at CableLabs, the non-profit research and development lab funded by the global cable industry, Knittle and his team are responsible for specifying scalable deployment solutions in both hybrid fiber-coax and all-fiber access ne...

This month's Cabling Podcast brings you an in-depth, 2-part interview with Dr. Curtis Knittle, Vice President of Wired Technologies at CableLabs. As VP of Wired Technologies at CableLabs, the non-profit research and development lab funded by the global cable industry, Knittle and his team are responsible for specifying scalable deployment solutions in both hybrid fiber-coax and all-fiber access ne...

The Cabling Podcast recently sat down with Rob Smallwood, vice president of digital modernization, and Shuaib Porjosh, director for advanced wireless, for General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE:GD), to learn more about GDIT's recently announced formation of a coalition with leading U.S. technology and telecommunications conglomerates. Including th...

Liam Taylor is European business manager, fiber optics, at Microcare, LLC, global manufacturer of the Sticklers brand of specialist fiber-optic cleaning tools. A long-time participant in information and communications technology (ICT) industry, Taylor is a member of the IES/SC 86B Working Group 4.  In the latest episode of the Cabling Podcast, Taylor recaps and expands upon the salient points of h...

In this episode of the Cabling Podcast, CI&M senior editor Matt Vincent sits down with Yonah Camacho Diamond, Organizing Coordinator for Communications Workers of America District 9 (CWA District 9) in California to discuss the award of a $5.8 million grant to expand an apprenticeship training program for fiber technicians at the existing CWA training center in San Jose, and at three additional si...

In this episode of the Cabling Podcast, Cabling Installation & Maintenance senior editor Matt Vincent sits down with Francois Menard, founder of PulR Technologies. Francois is the inventor of the PulR, a versatile tool especially designed to solve the problem of pulling bend insensitive, self bend limiting 4.8 mm SC fiber-optic patch cords for small-conduit optical FTTx applications, and other pre...

Cabling Installation & Maintenance recently sat down with CommScope Enterprise Solutions Architect Jason Bautista for a discussion of the finer points of Category 6A connectivity. Cat 6A has been a cabling standard since 2009, but what are the signature contemporary advancements in terms of compatible products and applications, and also the thinking surrounding the technology? Our discussion then...