Light Reading's Mitch Wagner talks with SES CEO JP Hemingway about his company's sky-high ambitions. SES's satellite network provides connectivity for mobile operators (who use the service for backhaul and enterprise VPN); maritime and aviation companies; and government customers (who use SES for drone surveillance, environmental controls). SES wants network operators to be able to connect to its satellite networks using existing management and orchestration tools, so it's implementing the Open ...
Aug 20, 2019•18 min
What's going on with over-the-top TV (and why are all the names so confusing)? Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner, Alan Breznick and Kelsey Ziser join Phil Harvey to dig in and decode the silliness. In segment one, we recap what we TV services we all buy at home to make a larger point about how fragmented the market is becoming. In segment two, we discuss all the names for TV and video services that AT&T has trademarked over the years -- and we look back in amusement on AT&T's Mlife campai...
Aug 16, 2019•47 min
John Isch from Orange Business Services joins Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser to talk all things SD-WAN. He's not just waving his arms and doing the usual marketing stuff, though. Isch discusses examples of specific deployments at companies you've heard of and how each one's network, preferences and technology choices influenced the service that Orange provided. We'll get back to discussing market trends and forecasts in a later podcast. For now, here's a real service provider with ...
Aug 15, 2019•31 min
Data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence may help service providers speed up service provisioning, provide better network performance and more comprehensive security. But none of that matters if the models used in research labs don't work in the real work, according to researcher Nick Feamster. Feamster is just starting his new gig as director of the Center for Data and Computing (CDAC) at the University of Chicago. He was previously a professor in the Computer Science Departme...
Aug 13, 2019•39 min
Who is the satellite company that's suddenly in the middle of the Sprint/T-Mobile merger discussions? Light Reading editors Mike Dano and Jeff Baumgartner join hosts Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser to discuss the past, present and future of Dish Network, the 22-year-old, $15 billion company that said it will build a 5G network and become a viable competitor to AT&T and Verizon. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 07, 2019•37 min
How many SD-WAN vendors are there, anyway? In this week's podcast, Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser discusses the ever-evolving world of SD-WAN. We discuss why there are so many vendors, what might happen if the market consolidates and whether some of the bigger acquisitions in the space by Cisco and VMware have started to pay off. The conversation also veers down the road of what SD-WAN is supposed to be replacing (MPLS) and whether that initial, straightforward goal has been subsumed into somethin...
Jul 30, 2019•26 min
AT&T lost video and broadband subscribers during its second quarter, but the telco still reported revenue and profit forecasts in line with Wall Street's expectations. Indeed, the carrier is making truckloads of money every quarter, but its ability to pinpoint where the culture is going is not as sharp as its competitors. In this quick, five-minute podcast, Light Reading's Alan Breznick talks about what AT&T announced and why it's not showing more growth in video and broadband, at a time...
Jul 24, 2019•5 min
5G is here, but where's it going? That's the simple and surprisingly nuanced question that Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre and Ovum's Dario Talmesio help answer in this podcast. Le Maistre is Light Reading's Editor-in-Chief and Talmesio is the principal analyst and practice leader for 5G Accelerator and European TMT Research at research house Ovum. The role of the network operator in the 5G world will suddenly seem very clear once you hear this interview. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsl...
Jul 18, 2019•10 min
Ellen Rubin joins the Light Reading podcast to discuss edge computing and the new need for data management in more places as the world goes from static storage to mobile, multicloud madness. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 16, 2019•29 min
Cities are huge consumers of telecom connectivity and services but the path to becoming "smart" cities looks a lot different now than it did even a year ago. US Ignite's Mari Silbey joins Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey to help dig into two areas: data analytics and infrastructure sharing. Both topics are on the minds of city leaders and telecom providers as cities work to become more connected and better places to live, work and play. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter....
Jul 09, 2019•32 min
Bill Walker, former senior director of strategy & advancement at CenturyLink, joins the podcast to offer his thoughts on what telcos are good at, what needs to change in telco culture and what kinds of companies he sees becoming bigger competitors to the traditional network operators. As a former engineer at Oracle and Sun Microsystems, Bill has a background in the IT side of things and understands the challenges of working in a big telco. Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey intervi...
Jun 28, 2019•29 min
In this episode, Ray, Kelsey and Phil talk about why so many believe that innovation at The Edge will unlock a lot of promises of next-generation networks. It will be a challenge -- getting those boundaries between the physical and digital worlds to blur will require some things that telcos can do well and some things they'll need a lot of help to accomplish. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 25, 2019•26 min
Light Reading's Mike Dano joins the podcast to discuss how are all the major US telcos handling 5G pricing, which carriers seem to have the most practical pricing strategies so far, and how what we pay for 5G services could change over time. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 13, 2019•25 min
Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser joins the podcast to discuss some of the insights and helpful advice she's heard while doing interviews for Light Reading's Women In Comms content series. Light Reading's Women In Comms page, in case you haven't been watching, includes frequent interviews and articles by Ziser, as well as the weekly WiCipedia roundup of news items. WiCipedia, compiled by Eryn Leavens, has been running nearly non-stop for three years. Today we're talking about "tall poppy syndrome." Z...
Jun 10, 2019•29 min
What happened for telcos and cable operators to keep an eye on at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)? Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner and Phil Harvey sort it all out for you on the podcast. Apple took some big steps toward protecting the privacy of its users and distancing itself from Facebook, Google and other companies that sell ads using a consumer's personal details or device location. The company also started supporting home security cameras and routers with HomeKit, Apple's ...
Jun 04, 2019•22 min
Light Reading's Mitch Wagner and Phil Harvey conclude that the government's rhetoric around Huawei as a national security threat sure would sound more reassuring if someone, somewhere actually presented proof. They also discuss when to expect 5G's benefits to come to a neighborhood near you. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 29, 2019•24 min
As the US ramps its trade war with China, Google became one of several companies that said it would limit the software services it provides to Huawei. The aftershocks of that decision could be severe, said Daniel Gleeson, Principal Analyst, Consumer Technology at Ovum. In this podcast episode, recorded May 21, Gleeson discusses Huawei's device business, which shipped about 207 million smartphones outside of China last year. The loss of support from Google for its Android OS and apps means that H...
May 23, 2019•16 min
In this podcast, recorded on May 17, Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner discusses why Disney's control of Hulu could change things for the SVOD (subscription video on demand) portion of the service. He also weighs in on whether Disney's ownership makes Hulu more competitive to AT&T, Comcast and the other traditional pay TV service providers. Meanwhile, as 5G networks are being built, almost every telco offering 5G services has a different approach to video. Light Reading's Mike Dano discusses ...
May 22, 2019•30 min
This "live" episode was recorded on Tuesday, May 7 at the Big 5G Event event in Denver, Colorado. After a few happy-hour refreshments, Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre and Phil Harvey were joined by two guests -- Light Reading's Mike Dano and US Ignite's Mari Silbey -- to sum up the state of 5G, why US cities are closely watching 5G deployments, and what we can look forward to as 2019 rolls on. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...
May 13, 2019•19 min
Light Reading Senior Editor Jeff Baumgartner joins us to revisit the saga of Omniverse One World Television, an over-the-top (OTT) distributor of live pay TV channels to all kinds of competitive players. Some of those companies have decided to back away from the pay-TV market. Jeff explains what's going on as the saga continues. Also, Light Reading's Mike Dano reviews what T-Mobile's options are if it is not allowed by merge with Sprint. And we quickly review Sprint's rather long list of strateg...
Apr 25, 2019•29 min
From a sunny conference room in NYC, Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Ray Le Maistre talk about Verizon's mobile 5G launch in Chicago and Minneapolis, what's behind the recent AWS hire of noted SDN and NFV expert Tetsuya Nakamura and they share a few notes from the front as the Internet video streaming market just gets crazier and more crowded with choices. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 05, 2019•20 min
Forget Apple TV and Apple TV Plus. There's no wilder story in the world of pay TV than the controversy surrounding Omniverse One World Television. In this podcast, Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner and Phil Harvey discuss how Omniverse turned up on the cable industry's radar, why it is upsetting content owners and whether the company's claim of a 100-year contract to distribute pay-TV channels is genuinely over the top. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
Mar 29, 2019•23 min
Recorded at last week's CNG2019 event in Denver, Light Reading's Alan Breznick interviews Mari Silbey, the director of communications for US Ignite. Silbey, a former Light Reading editor, is also director of the US Ignite Forum, a program that brings local government officials and their partners together to share smart city challenges, strategies and best practices. Breznick quizzes Silbey on what makes a city smarter, what opportunities there are for network operators in this effort and what ex...
Mar 22, 2019•18 min
Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser, Alan Breznick and Jeff Baumgartner join Phil Harvey for a round of drinks and a chat after the opening day of CNG2019 in Denver. The "bomb cyclone" did its worst, but it couldn't stop us from debating 10G vs. 5G and, also, how the cable providers are now talking about including and integrating Internet streaming services, like Netflix, instead of competing with them. Later in the podcast, Phil poses the question: "Would you ever buy your Internet video or pay-TV ser...
Mar 15, 2019•16 min
Light Reading editors Kelsey Ziser, Ray Le Maistre and Mike Dano discussed all the important 5G topics from the InterDigital booth on the show floor at MWC19 in Barcelona. They covered millimeter wave spectrum, the thrills and danger of flying taxis and what the hell we're going to do with all the data that IoT devices will be throwing off as they get connected to faster and faster networks. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...
Mar 08, 2019•8 min
In this special episode of the Light Reading podcast, Editor-in-Chief Ray Le Maistre interviewed Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm on the show floor at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Ekholm discussed a wide variety of topics, including 5G, 4G, antenna tech, the Kathrein acquisition and why Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen is better than Duran Duran. We're not sure that last point was ever up for debate but, when you're talking to Light Reading, you'd better have a definitive cultural opinion at the rea...
Mar 08, 2019•9 min
Late in the day on Tuesday, Feb. 26, Light Reading's Phil "Captain Jetlag" Harvey and Ray Le Maistre attempted to fight through hunger, sleeplessness and coffee jitters to do a live podcast from the InterDigital booth in Hall 7 of the sprawling, soulless Fira Gran Via in Barcelona. Topics covered during the live chat included the new role of edge computing or, if you like, localized cloud computing in manufacturing. Phil thinks that making industrial equipment more mobile and agile is perhaps mo...
Mar 01, 2019•21 min
Light Reading's Mitch Wagner and Phil Harvey discuss the recently reported deal between AT&T and Mirantis. A week ago, Mirantis announced that it was joining Airship , an open source infrastructure project that aims to help telcos use on-premises Kubernetes infrastructure to support their efforts to modernize, cloudify and otherwise make their networks more efficient (and less dependent on a single vendor). We discuss Wagner's reporting on the subject and how it led to an even bigger story a...
Feb 14, 2019•33 min
Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Ray Le Maistre chew on the latest offers from T-Mobile, Verizon, and Orange while discussing the broader theme of how traditional carriers can become (and be perceived as) something more than connectivity providers. When should a telco become a media company? Or a lifestyle brand? Or a bank? The answer depends on the company, but each company, as it changes and modernizes to keep up with competitors, should always be looking for places that it can disrupt others. ...
Feb 06, 2019•31 min
The world of pay TV is an unholy mess, and no one is better at keeping up with the players, plans, and problems than Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner. In this podcast, Jeff joins Phil Harvey for a chat about how cable providers are using mobile, why adding Netflix to your set-top isn't a bad idea and what kind of subscribers aren't worth chasing. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 31, 2019•37 min
