Ankit Agarwal, managing director at STL (aka, Sterlite Technologies Limited), joins the podcast to discuss STL's perspective on the digital divide based on its work delivering network solutions in over 100 countries. We get into the central connectivity challenges in communities worldwide and where government efforts are making a difference. We also discuss the role of fiber in bridging the divide in India, and how the supply chain is impacting STL's work to accelerate digital network delivery. ...
Feb 16, 2022•20 min
Parm Sandhu, VP of enterprise 5G products and services for NTT; and Warren Small, global head of security and innovation for NTT, join the Light Reading podcast to discuss NTT's approach to delivering private 5G networks to enterprise customers. Sandhu shares insights from a recent study by NTT and Economist Impact, Private 5G Here and Now , which revealed that 90% of executives expect that private 5G will become the standard network choice. "Nearly a quarter of the companies that we interviewed...
Feb 15, 2022•21 min
Cory Davis, director of public safety operations for Verizon, returns to the podcast while on site at Verizon's network-monitoring command center in SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles, California. Davis and the Verizon Frontline team are gearing up for Super Bowl LVI; the service provider has been preparing for two years for this Super Bowl, investing $119 million in and around SoFi Stadium. "We look at the [command center] like a football team, we have an offense, defense and special teams," says Davis....
Feb 11, 2022•17 min
Peter Vetter, president of Bell Labs Core Research for Nokia Bell Labs, joins the podcast to discuss the industry's preparations for 6G and how it will differ from previous cellular generations. Vetter has been with Nokia for over 20 years and has a background in optical communications, FTTH, radio access and network infrastructure research. "What 5G has done is connect humans and machines. In 6G, we expect a much richer connectivity of machines and the physical world, the human world, with the ...
Feb 10, 2022•25 min
Aparna Khurjekar, SVP and president for Verizon Business Markets, joins the podcast to explain how the service provider works with small and midsized businesses (SMBs) to assess and address their security needs. Khurjekar works with businesses with ten to 1,000 full-time employees on delivering communications, security and "other above the network services." In addition, she shares insights from Verizon's Small Business Recovery Survey covering 600 business owners. "About 50% of small/medium bus...
Feb 09, 2022•22 min
Michael Philpott, research director at Omdia, joins the podcast to discuss Omdia's 2021 Global Fiber Development Index , including where fiber is being deployed the fastest and why speed inequalities are growing as countries work toward closing their connectivity divides. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 07, 2022•13 min
Chris McReynolds, VP of product management, cloud and data services at Lumen Technologies, joins the podcast to discuss Lumen's approach to edge computing and what's driving edge use cases among enterprise customers. "We have a lot of distributed physical locations where we can deploy edge computing nodes, we have a lot of fiber connectivity to manufacturing locations, logistics and sorting centers – the types of locations where these edge and IoT use cases make a lot of sense and add a lot of b...
Feb 02, 2022•16 min
Today we're talking with Mike Dano about T-Mobile's efforts to purchase 2.5GHz spectrum licenses , why it's trying to purchase those licenses now, who the competition is and what it means for the industry at large. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 01, 2022•14 min
Samir Marwaha, chief strategy officer for Sandvine, joins the Light Reading podcast to share insights into the consumption of Internet data from Sandvine's Global Internet Phenomena Report . For this report, Sandvine surveyed about 160 fixed, mobile and satellite service providers to gain a better understanding of Internet data usage, applications, security and more. "In the pandemic, we have a lot more 'power users' and the definition of power users continues to change. We have a lot more terab...
Jan 31, 2022•21 min
Phil McKinney , president and CEO of CableLabs, joins the Light Reading podcast to discuss where the cable industry is on the path to 10G and how CableLabs is stoking interest and innovation with its 10G Challenge . "The path to the ultimate vision for 10G – 10 gigabits and beyond – is a long road. We're talking multi-gigabit symmetrical coming soon and then getting into the higher speeds. But, again, 10G is not just about DOCSIS," McKinney told podcast hosts Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser. "We al...
Jan 27, 2022•30 min
Tim Emoff, vice president of the telecom division at Sales Outsource Solutions , joins the podcast to discuss the digital divide in Canada, where an estimated 45.5% of the population can't access high-speed Internet, and a new project called FibreONE that seeks to tackle that. A consortium of companies – including Prysmian Group , Clearfield , Dura-Line , MacLean Network Solutions , Primex Technologies and Oldcastle Infrastructure – FibreONE is an effort to help deliver a fiber backbone across r...
Jan 26, 2022•18 min
Greg Garten, CTO for NTT Security, joins the podcast to discuss security concerns that arise as service providers and enterprises move their business operations to the cloud, and how NTT Security is cleaning up " dirty networks " for small and mid-sized business customers. Garten says there's a misconception in the industry that traditional approaches to security can be applied easily to the cloud. In addition, Garten explains how NTT Security has applied security learnings from enterprises to a...
Jan 25, 2022•20 min
Ciena's Gina Nienaber joins the podcast to explain what IP/optical convergence is and how it fits in with service providers' strategies to automate their networks. Light Reading's research group Heavy Reading recently partnered with Ciena to survey 220 service provider executives about IP/optical convergence. In the survey, "61% [of respondents] defined IP/optical convergence as the streamlining of operations across IP and optical functions. To me, that involves multi-layer intelligent software ...
Jan 24, 2022•22 min
John Gedmark, CEO of Astranis – a microGEO satellite company based in San Francisco – joins the podcast to discuss the company's small satellite technology and its upcoming deployment in partnership with Peruvian mobile provider Grupo Andesat to deliver 4G broadband to millions of people in Peru. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 21, 2022•8 min
Andreas Olah, senior analyst of Digital Enterprise Services for Omdia, joins the podcast to discuss his recent research on 5G, IoT and edge services trends for 2022 and beyond. Olah explains how service providers can deliver AR/VR, edge computing, IoT and intelligent automation capabilities as-a-service to enterprise customers, and how both parties can benefit from the as-a-service delivery model. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...
Jan 20, 2022•22 min
Verizon's Cory Davis joins the podcast to discuss how the service provider is addressing challenges first responders face, such as interdepartmental communication between public safety agencies and across different networks, and gives a preview of new tactical response tools such as "THOR." More on THOR later, but first, Davis, director of public safety operations for Verizon, provides insight into Verizon's Public Safety Communications Survey , and what the results reveal about how new devices ...
Jan 19, 2022•25 min
Light Reading Senior Editor Jeff Baumgartner joins the podcast to provide an update on Astound Broadband and Atlantic Broadband 's rebranding efforts. Baumgartner explains why the cable companies are choosing a new moniker, what it means for customers and what to expect next. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 18, 2022•8 min
Shirley Bloomfield, CEO of NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association , joins the podcast to discuss the challenges facing rural providers when it comes to network deployment and upkeep, and how federal funds from the Biden administration's infrastructure law can best be spent to close the digital divide in the most-underserved areas of the country. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 13, 2022•19 min
Pablo Tomasi, principal analyst of private networks for Omdia, joins the podcast to share key findings from his latest report, " 2022 Trends to Watch: Private Networks and the Shadow of 5G ." Tomasi explains that while the topic of 5G may give service providers a "marketing hook" when discussing private network options with enterprise customers, 4G LTE offers all the razzle dazzle enterprises need in the near term. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
Jan 11, 2022•19 min
Mike Frane, VP of product management for Windstream Enterprise, is back on the podcast to provide his forecast for enterprise trends in 2022 such as cybersecurity, SASE, zero trust access, SD-WAN and more. Frane also discusses how enterprise culture must adjust to the needs of the distributed workforce, and is hopeful that the industry will better understand the "acronym soup" around managed services for enterprises so operators' customers can better customize the networking and security service...
Jan 10, 2022•23 min
Mike Dano, editorial director of 5G & mobile strategies for Light Reading, joins the podcast to discuss why AT&T and Verizon are delaying their deployment of 5G networks on the C-band spectrum, the broader industry implications of that delay and what to expect next. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 06, 2022•10 min
On the podcast this week we present an interview recorded on December 28, just before we took a short New Year's Day break. Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner and Phil Harvey talked to the Consumer Technology Association's Sayon Deb about the metaverse, the evolution of consumer electronics and where service provider networks fit in. As Deb was just about to pack his bags for CES 2022 in Las Vegas, we got his thoughts on why the metaverse is important for businesses and consumers and what kinds of...
Jan 05, 2022•28 min
Light Reading Senior Editor Jeff Baumgartner joins the podcast to explain the competitive challenges that virtual multichannel video programming distributors (vMVPDs) are facing as the market becomes more saturated. In addition, vMVPDs face some of the same challenges that their cable counterparts have grappled with for years: YouTubeTV recently warned subscribers that Disney-owned channels may go dark if the companies can't reach a pricing agreement. Sign up today for the Light Reading newslett...
Dec 22, 2021•15 min
Broadband and telehealth consultant Craig Settles joins the podcast to discuss the details of the $65 billion broadband bill, how monopolies have held the US back from closing its digital divide and why getting the rules around implementation right with this latest batch of funding is crucial to serving communities in need. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 21, 2021•18 min
Bruce Snell, VP of security strategy and transformation at NTT Security, returns to the podcast to provide an update on the Log4j vulnerability, potential security threats to the supply chain and highlights from NTT's Global Threat Intelligence Center Monthly Report for December. Snell covers some of the biggest cybersecurity trends of 2021 and has advice for how organizations can better manage and secure their data. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...
Dec 20, 2021•27 min
Mark Dehus, director of information security and threat intelligence for Lumen Technologies, joins the podcast to share the key findings from the operator's Q3 DDoS report, and his predictions for DDoS trends in Q4. In addition, Dehus explains why multi-vector DDoS attacks were more common than single-vector, why voice and VoIP attacks are on the rise and which verticals were hit the hardest by bad actors. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
Dec 16, 2021•18 min
Jai Thattil, director of strategic marketing for Juniper Networks, joins the podcast to discuss Juniper's work in the open RAN space, why the networking company has partnered with Intel and Rakuten on O-RAN, updates on standards for the technology and his predictions for new O-RAN developments in 2022. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 13, 2021•17 min
MetTel CTO Ed Fox returns to the podcast for an update on enterprise interest in the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) trend that brings together networking and security services. Fox explains how MetTel's own approach to SASE has evolved and which components are key to any SASE service, such as Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). In addition, Fox shares how the service provider is working with customers making the shift from copper wire networks to fiber, cellular and VOIP networks. Sign up today...
Dec 10, 2021•16 min
Gary Bolton, president of the Fiber Broadband Association , returns to the podcast to discuss how the fiber industry's advocacy efforts are changing as the US federal government implements its $65 billion broadband bill. We also discuss FBA's forthcoming fiber optic technician training program, broadband mapping woes at the FCC and more. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 10, 2021•18 min
Rik Turner, principal analyst of emerging technologies at Omdia, is back on the podcast to explain how cloud permissions management (CPM) can help service providers and enterprises take a zero-trust approach to cloud access. CPM is a process by which organizations can identify and catalogue "all extant permissions, then recommend how and where they might be reined in to minimize the organization's attack surface," Turner explained in a report published this August. During the podcast, Turner dis...
Dec 08, 2021•23 min
