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Light Reading provides daily news, analysis and insight for the global communications networking and services industry. The publication was founded in 2000 and, since July 2016, has been a part of Informa Tech, a division of Informa PLC. We're part of a big team providing specialist research, media, events and training for businesses and professionals working in technology.
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This episode features Jeff Seidenfaden, chief commercial and customer experience officer at fiber broadband provider Bluepeak ; and Mike Podoll, a resident of Altus, Oklahoma, and a subscriber to Bluepeak since the ISP started connecting customers there in late August. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
While 5G is a relatively nascent technology, it's already playing an important role in the satellite space race. Ryan Reid, president of Boeing Commercial Satellite Systems, International, recently joined the Light Reading podcast to explain how terrestrial telecom technologies are being utilized in the new O3b mPower satellites, which Boeing is manufacturing in partnership with satellite operator SES. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Satellite operator SES has a busy year-end planned with the scheduled launch of two MEO satellites in mid-December. CTO Ruy Pinto met up with Light Reading on site at Boeing Satellite in El Segundo, Calif. earlier this month with an update on the scheduled launch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Whether it's upgrading existing hybrid fiber/coax (HFC), extending service to adjacent areas or bringing fiber and gigabit speeds to rural locations, the pace of network building has picked up among many US cable operators. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jeff Baumgartner, Mike Dano and Kelsey Ziser discuss whether anything interesting is going on in the CBRS spectrum band, updates on Comcast's hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) network, and Kelsey's tour of Boeing's satellite facility in the Notebook Dump for the week ending November 18. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode features Prashanth Vijay, co-founder and CEO of Flume Internet. He returns to the podcast to discuss Flume's progress leveraging dark fiber to help close the digital divide in New York City over the past year, as well as the company's recently announced expansion to Los Angeles, California, and Hartford, Connecticut. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Just in time for the Holidays, satellite operator SES plans to launch about a half dozen new MEO satellites in mid-December. A second launch is scheduled for January of next year, together with launch partner SpaceX. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Light Reading's Mike Dano and Phil Harvey review the Leading Lights Awards categories they judged, ranging from 5G to optical transport. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Light Reading's Iain Morris and Kelsey Ziser review the Leading Lights Awards categories they judged and examine emerging trends that appeared in the submissions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Light Reading editors Nicole Ferraro, Mike Dano and Phil Harvey gather around the microphones for an informal discussion of what happened during the work week ended November 11, 2022. This week's big issues include the state of statewide broadband ballot initiatives, broadband mapping timelines, satellite-to-phone communications, space commercialization and how the social media landscape is changing after a wave of layoffs in the tech sector. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
The Internet Society's Sharayah Lane joins the podcast to discuss the digital divide in indigenous communities across North America, where progress has and hasn't been made and broadband policy recommendations from the recent Indigenous Connectivity Summit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Now spanning video and broadband devices and a subset of the IoT arena, the Reference Design Kit (RDK) has come a long way since humble beginnings that, as far as we can tell, extend back to circa 2010. RDK, an open-source software stack managed by a joint venture of Comcast, Charter Communications and Liberty Global, has been deployed to more than 100 million devices worldwide , up from about the 80 million reported in May 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nokia core networks SVP Fran Heeran answers Light Reading’s questions on how customers and the whole industry perceives Core Networks delivered and operated in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. #sponsored Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comcast and Charter Communications just came off a third quarter in which they added a record 729,000 mobile lines, extending their grand total to 9.61 million. As home broadband subscriber growth slows, mobile has clearly become their new success story. Altice USA's mobile service, coming way of a new MVNO deal with T-Mobile, has had more limited success, but the operator is still adding mobile lines. Meanwhile, Cox Communications and WideOpenWest have just entered the game, and the National Co...
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Earnings season is in full force and Light Reading Editors Jeff Baumgartner, Mike Dano, Nicole Ferraro and Kelsey Ziser discuss which companies had a banner Q3 and others that hit some speed bumps in this Notebook Dump for the week ending November 4. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode features Shawn Parker, vice president of government affairs at SiFi Networks : which has been building and operating open access fiber networks for about a decade, with 32 "FiberCities" currently in development across the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Light Reading's Alan Breznick reviews the Leading Lights Awards categories he judged and examines surprising trends that appeared in the submissions. In particular, Alan said there was a significant number of fixed wireless submissions this year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Telstra Americas' President Noah Drake joins the podcast with an update on the service provider's market focus in the Americas, where Telstra operates subsea cable networks and which regions it has pegged for growth. You can download a lightly edited transcript of the podcast here . Here are a few topics we covered: Contrast between Drake's time at Zayo versus now at Telstra (00:39) Telstra Americas' customers and focus in the Americas' market (02:34) New technologies for subsea cable networks (...
Jim Brickmeier has seen the pay-TV industry evolve from its early foray into the worlds of video-on-demand (VoD) and digital ad insertion, the advent of the cloud DVR and into today's streaming era. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In the Halloween edition of The Notebook Dump, Light Reading editors walk through the digital cemetery looking for gadget zombies and technologies that still haunt us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Shekar Ayyar, chairman and CEO of Arrcus, sees a lot of upside for telcos wanting to create new network services. His optimism is rooted in the changes he sees in network infrastructure and a new kind of convergence between enterprise and service provider networks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner and Nicole Ferraro discuss the 2022 Leading Lights Awards categories they judged, the finalists they selected and trends they noticed in the submissions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
One of the recent surveys by Comviva Research, across 75 C-level telecom executives globally, suggests that 60% believe their BSS is not ready for future needs. #sponsored Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Weber, who once headed up video product for AT&T and its U-verse services, shifted gears years ago to take the CEO slot at Zone TV. These days, he's focused on an older TV idea – interactive television – that has found new interest thanks to IP connectivity and optimism about the category from both operators and programmers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
While vendors and service providers have made much ado about secure access service edge (SASE), the technology framework is still in its nascent phase, according to Omdia Analysts Adeline Phua and Fernando Montenegro. "I think everybody's really excited about SASE because enterprises keep asking about it," said Phua. "It's got so much buzz in the market. And we're thinking that maybe adoption is really hitting that tipping point, only to find out when we talk to service providers and to enterpri...
Light Reading's Phil Harvey discusses his recent tour of AT&T's central office. Phil also examines AT&T's edge strategy, public cloud partnership with Microsoft and provides an update on AT&T's FirstNet emergency response service. You can download a lightly edited transcript of the podcast here . Here are a few topics we covered: Overview of Phil's tour of AT&T's central office. (01:00) An inside look at AT&T's 5G and fiber focus . (02:42) AT&T's approach to the public cl...
LAS VEGAS – #MWC22 – Tareq Amin, CEO of Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Symphony, discusses how he got Symware from being a reference architecture to a shipping product, with plans to deploy 30,000 units in Rakuten Mobile's network in Japan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Pivotal Commware CEO Brian Deutsch discusses his company's new as-a-service offering, Pivotal Turnkey Services. The service, offered to Pivotal's network operator customers, aims to speed up deployments of fixed wireless access (FWA) networks that use mmWave technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Light Reading editors Jeff Baumgartner, Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser discuss subsea cable updates and Ciena and Alitbox's 800G deployment from Amsterdam to Copenhagen. The editors also discuss Phil's takeaways from his recent tour of AT&T's central office, AT&T's fiber subscriber base surpassing its non-fiber base, and Netflix's banner Q3 results in this recap of the work week ended October 21. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
