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. Tune in to hear more about what’s going on with SPE and where you can see the technology on display....
May 08, 2025•12 min•Ep. 31
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 through best practices, and with the guidance of relevant standards, polarity does not have to be a v...
May 07, 2025•15 min•Ep. 30
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 makes our industry tick. While the topics of conversation varied, a common theme emerged—leadership. He...
Feb 01, 2025•46 min•Ep. 29
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 actively managing each installation regardless of size or duration. The discussion takes several turns, ...
Oct 11, 2024•49 min•Ep. 28
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 factors most affecting data center operation today, and what’s likely to have ripple effects into the ...
Jun 27, 2024•29 min•Ep. 27
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....
May 13, 2024•30 min•Ep. 26
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 and guide the technology's adoption from it's inception up til present-day? 06:17 - Ethernet Alli...
Jun 30, 2023•33 min•Ep. 25
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 success in driving growth and exceeding organizational targets by leveraging her technology acumen...
Jun 30, 2023•16 min•Ep. 24
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 enables building networks to make powerful decisions at "the edge," where an individual's face becomes...
May 25, 2023•19 min•Ep. 23
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 compliance and ESG metrics for smart building construction and integration projects. As stated in his biogr...
May 22, 2023•20 min•Ep. 22
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 high-speed fiber applications being developed, it's tempting to think that copper could eventually beco...
Apr 27, 2023•14 min•Ep. 21
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 since 2020 , Peter Jones is a Distinguished Engineer in the Cisco Networking H/W team. As stated in h...
Apr 27, 2023•22 min•Ep. 20
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 peering community, where he serves on the board of directors. He also serves on the advisory board of ...
Apr 10, 2023•17 min•Ep. 19
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 (ICT) vendors, contractors, and installers the benefit of Heynen's view into the current broadba...
Mar 24, 2023•18 min•Ep. 18
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 served by Allbridge’s proptech platform and services include hospitality, mixed-use, multifamily a...
Mar 10, 2023•13 min•Ep. 17
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 served by Allbridge’s proptech platform and services include hospitality, mixed-use, multifamily a...
Mar 10, 2023•9 min•Ep. 16
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 numerous articles, white papers, and presentations on the design of telecommunications and data n...
Feb 15, 2023•17 min•Ep. 15
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 numerous articles, white papers, and presentations on the design of telecommunications and data n...
Feb 15, 2023•10 min•Ep. 14
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 networks for CableLabs’ member companies. DOCSIS technologies, Distributed CCAP Architectures, Point-t...
Jan 27, 2023•14 min•Ep. 13
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 networks for CableLabs’ member companies. DOCSIS technologies, Distributed CCAP Architectures, Point-t...
Jan 27, 2023•8 min•Ep. 12
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 the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco, Dell Technologies, Splunk and T-Mobile, the GDIT coalit...
Dec 16, 2022•26 min•Ep. 11
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 his recent article for Cabling Installation & Maintenance magazine, "Why fiber network cleaning is...
Nov 11, 2022•18 min•Ep. 10
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 sites across the state. The new program designation for fiber splicing technicians is intended to ...
Oct 25, 2022•14 min•Ep. 9
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-terminated patch cords. The tool will be featured at this year's BICSI Fall Conference (Sept. 2...
Aug 04, 2022•30 min•Ep. 8
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 touches on the different use cases for Cat 6A shielded vs. Cat 6A unshielded cabling, and what t...
Jul 08, 2022•21 min•Ep. 7
Cabling Installation & Maintenance (CI&M) editors Matt Vincent and Patrick McLaughlin chat about information and communications technology (ICT) segment prospects and news and notes for CI&M within the Spring 2022 timeframe.
May 13, 2022•4 min•Ep. 6
CI&M sits down for some serious cabling tools talk with Jonard Tools’ Managing Sales Director of North American Operations, Wayne Bunce. For Episode 3 of The Cabling Podcast , CI&M senior editor Matt Vincent sits down for some serious cabling tools talk with Jonard Tools’ Managing Sales Director of North American Operations, Wayne Bunce. Wayne talks briefly about his background (00:44), starting with his time as a wire wrangler from an early age, before turning to the meat of the discuss...
Mar 24, 2022•22 min•Ep. 5
For Episode 2 of The Cabling Podcast , CI&M senior editor Matt Vincent sits down with a longtime friend of the brand, Ethernet Alliance (EA) chair Peter Jones. The discussion ranges from recent Ethernet Alliance activities (01:13), including the consortium's latest Power over Ethernet Certification program announcement (02:48), and an update on Single Pair Ethernet technology (03:40) with Peter also addressing Ethernet-APL systems technology developments (05:03). Peter then reflects on the s...
Nov 23, 2021•32 min•Ep. 4
In the first episode of The Cabling Podcast, Cabling Installation & Maintenance (CI&M) editors Matt Vincent and Patrick McLaughlin chat about the Fall (Sept./Oct) issue of the magazine (00:42), where the recipients of CI&M's 2021 Cabling Innovators Awards winners are honored (1:01). As described by Patrick, the issue also covers advancements (2:55) in the areas of fiber-optic end-cleaning; cybersecurity and fiber; optical return loss; as well as Single Pair Ethernet cabling and conne...
Oct 29, 2021•20 min•Ep. 2
