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NTT's CTO Ettienne Reinecke joins the podcast to shine a light on the most disruptive tech trends he sees for enterprises in the coming year. Many of them are closely linked to a surge in computing capacity and tech development at the network's edge. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner is covering #CES2020 this week and on his last day in town, we caught him just in time to get a recap of the much-hyped Quibi keynote and some thoughts on how over-the-air TV look and behave a lot differently in the future. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner interviews Danielle Cassagnol, the senior manager of industry communications for the Consumer Technology Association. Light Reading tends to focus on telecom-related developments but Cassagnol helps us see the bigger picture by providing an update on what's growing and gaining momentum across #CES2020 and the consumer electronics landscape. Not surprisingly, 5G and AI are major discussion points as devices not only get smarter but blend in more to connectivity-re...
Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner is covering #CES2020 this week and he's got the scoop on the latest move by TiVo to making streaming video viewing easier via yet another new device you need to plug in to your TV. Baumgartner and Light Reading's Phil Harvey also discuss Amazon's plans to offer a streaming platform for cable operators, telcos and other types of video service providers as a way of getting more consumers to use it as the entry point before they wade into a stormy sea of entertainme...
Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner and Kelsey Ziser join Phil Harvey to discuss Jeff's coverage plans at CES 2020, new SVoD services launching this year, the challenges service providers have when partnering with online video giants, and the best cold remedies for Phil's persistent sniffles. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nuage Networks CEO Sunil Khandekar returns to the pod to debrief Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Mitch Wagner about developments that will influence SD-WAN in the new year. These include increased opportunities for service providers as enterprises move from DIY to managed services and SD-WAN's transition from a cost-savings tool to the foundation for digital transformation. There's also some discussion of the Secure Access Service Edge -- SASE -- and its potential to replace SD-WAN. Finally, Ke...
In this episode, recorded in October, Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey are joined by Samir El Rashidy, the director of enterprise services at Orange Business Services. The Light Reading podcast has covered Orange Business Services (OBS) before -- in late July we interviewed John Isch about the carrier's SD-WAN services. This podcast episode picks up from that earlier discussion and gets deeper into enterprise services. El Rashidy discusses the OBS approach to Multisourcing Service In...
In this episode, Light Reading's Mitch Wagner has two big news interviews and a summary report from the Cisco Systems press conference in San Francisco this week. Skip right ahead to the 03:40 mark for the coverage. The Cisco news event featured some major new networking portfolio announcements. The networking giant launched its new Silicon One chip, an entirely new family of routers, some new enhanced operating system software, and new optical components to help service providers and webscale c...
Crossover Pod Alert! Following Light Reading's 2020 Vision Executive Summit at the Ritz Carlton in Vienna, Austria, Telecoms.com's Editorial Director Scott Bicheno joins Light Reading's Iain Morris and Phil Harvey for a wine-fueled recap of one of the most exclusive gatherings of senior global executives from the communications networking sector. Iain discusses recent the restructuring and corporate realignment activities of Orange, Telefonica and MTS. Scott muses about how dangerous (and smart)...
Cisco's Collaboration Vision: Cisco collaboration EVP & GM Amy Chang and Light Reading's Mitch Wagner share stories about videoconferencing facepalms, and Chang then discusses Cisco's collaboration vision. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Network convergence was a primary theme at Cable Congress and Cable-Next Gen Europe in Berlin as cable operators in the region push ahead with plans to stitch together fixed, wireless and mobile networks into one common service platform. Cable operators in Europe are well ahead of their North American counterparts with regarding new distributed access architectures and they are showing very little interest in a Generic Access Platform initiative for standardized nodes that is getting underway in...
Nuage Networks CEO Sunil Khandekar joins Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser to discuss the value of having standards for an emerging market like SD-WAN and how Nuage is working with organizations like MEF to make carrier-offered SD-WAN a more valuable service. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser interview Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim about what's next for Juniper. The conversation covered Juniper's big bet on 400G, how the vendor can stand out in the market against competitors like Arista and Cisco, and where Juniper's next wave of telecom momentum will come from. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
In a special news podcast, Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner, Dan Jones and Phil Harvey gather around the microphones to talk about the launch of HBO Max. AT&T and WarnerMedia expect to have 50 million (HBO and) HBO Max subscribers in the US in about five years. But how will the carrier navigate the choppy waters of negotiating with HBO's pay-TV provider distributors while simultaneously trying to put them out of business? Once we discuss that elephant-in-the-room service provider angle, we p...
It's been a week since we left California and wrapped up at MWC Los Angeles 2019. What did our analyst colleagues and fellow editors think of all the big booths, meetings and crowded corridors? In this episode, Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey dig through the podcast studio voicemail to listen to insights from Ovum's Daryl Schoolar and Mike Sapien, Heavy Reading's Jennifer Clarke and Light Reading's Mike Dano. To kick things off, Phil recalls his meeting with the GSMA's Ana Tavares L...
The ghosts, geeks and goblins of telecom tech come out to play in this very foolish and ghoulish episode of the Light Reading Podcast. Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and her spooky pals -- Light Reading behead-itor Phil Harvey and US Ignite firestarter Mari Silbey -- discuss some of the technologies that still haunt them to this day. Phil opines on why consumers were so scared of the Facebook phone. Kelsey is creeped out all over again by Google Glass. Mari throws her hands up to the heavens and a...
Layne Levine, president of the Enterprise & Wholesale business unit at Windstream, isn't confused about SD-WAN's potential. "This is the next big technology transformation in the communications world and I think it's going to completely upend some companies' business models," he told Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser. Listen to the entire interview here and check out the show notes on www.lightreading.com. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast....
Will Barkis leads the smart cities portfolio at Orange Silicon Valley's innovation lab and he spoke to Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey about the potential and privacy worries surrounding computer vision and what happens when municipalities begin using AI to do things like facial recognition. Also, Barkis discusses what market advantage service providers might have when pursuing smart cities opportunities. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
Light Reading Editors Ray Le Maistre and Mike Dano discuss the key takeaways from Light Reading's 5G Transport & the Edge event in New York City. This is a really short interview, only 5 minutes, recorded just after the sessions wrapped up on Thursday, Oct. 10. Enjoy! Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Light Reading's Alan Breznick, Jeff Baumgartner and Phil Harveydiscuss the stuff they've presented, seen and overheard at SCTE's Cable-Tec Expo 2019 in New Orleans last week. This podcast, recorded on Thursday, Oct. 3, is a tad noisy because it was recorded right smack in the middle of the Expo floor, following Jeff's panel during the Smart Cities track. The trio discusses cable's relationship to 5G, the impact of virtualization on cable networks and the mystery behind why giant venues like conv...
Optiva CEO Danielle Royston is a hellraiser. But she's also a savvy CEO, taking Optiva -- formerly Redknee, a troubled BSS provider -- and giving it a new focus. Her message to service providers is that they should really examine how and where they can embrace the public cloud. In order to help right the ship at Optiva, Royston partnered with Google Cloud and now offers Optiva customers a BSS solution that she claims is 10 times the speed and scale at one-tenth the cost of Oracle databases. "The...
In the lead up to Light Reading's 5G Transport & the Edge event in NY on Oct. 10, Not-Phil Harvey (aka Kelsey Ziser) and Mike Dano discuss their favorite types of pizza plus the importance of the transport network and traffic routing to support telcos' efforts around edge computing. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
With SCTE kicking off in New Orleans -- and talk of 5G heating up with cable operators -- it's a great time to look back and go over what 5G looks like for consumers and what analysts really expect from 5G in the next 5 years. In this interview, Ovum Chief Analyst Ed Barton talks with Light Reading's Editor-in-Chief Ray Le Maistre about some of the findings from his report, "5G: Key Opportunities and Challenges in Consumer and Entertainment." The report looks at what 5G promises, and what it wil...
Light Reading's event series on network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) stopped in Dallas this time around. As usual, we talked about the opportunities and obstacles facing telecom service providers as they move more network functions to the cloud and aim to more easily create new products and services, shorten innovation cycles and bring in new revenue. On Sept. 19, just before happy hour, Light Reading editors Mitch Wagner, Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey gath...
We're packing our bags for Dallas, for our cleverly named Network Virtualization and SDN Americas conference, and Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser talks with host Mitch Wagner about the current state of software-defined networking. Also: Kelsey explains why she always wants to talk about protein bars. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Taking a service provider lens to Apple's announcement of the iPhone 11, Apple TV+ and more, with Light Reading editors Mitch Wagner, Jeff Baumgartner and Mike Dano. Will the iPhone 11 be a big business opportunity for carriers? Will Apple TV+ be able to compete in a crowded OTT market? And what's with the upcoming Apple TV+ sci-fi series "See" – civilization has collapsed because everybody is blind, so why do they all have fabulous hair? Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on...
Ciena CEO Gary Smith and Light Reading's Phil Harvey discuss the optical transport & network software firm's webscale business demand, its Blue Planet software growth, the stock market reactions to its forecasts, as well as competitive concerns about Cisco and Huawei. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Orange Silicon Valley CEO Mireille Helou talks to Light Reading's Mitch Wagner about how she intends to help bring California innovation to the European service provider and its customers around the world. Helou said Orange SV is charged with tracking innovation, and we talk what that means, how Orange measures its results and creates value for its business. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
This is the third in our series of podcasts covering the state of SD-WAN. Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey (with research help from Ovum and Heavy Reading) are looking at several issues influencing the overall growth and progress of the SD-WAN market for service providers. Please check out the previous episodes in this series, including the interview with SD-WAN expert, John Isch from Orange Business Services. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast...
Raghuram "Raghu" Velega, VP of big data and analytics at Jio in India, provides an update on how that carrier's growth and scale has created some unique data challenges and competitive opportunities. Jio and Guavus announced a partnership this week to help take the 4 to 5 petabytes of data per day that carrier generates into some context, giving it a better understanding of its network needs and customer demands. Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...
