Light Reading Podcasts

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 Content & Technology Cooperative (NCTC) is crafting MVNO deals that will enable its membership of 700-plus independent cable operators and telcos to enter the mobile mix as well.Roger Entner, the founder and lead analyst of Recon Analytics and all-around mobile industry expert, believes cable is well-positioned to keep growing the mobile side of its business. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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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 (04:11)Building subsea cable networks that last decades while provisioning for future bandwidth demands (06:19)Balancing network planning and subsea cable maintenance (09:25)Telstra Octagon and the service provider's work with the financial services community (12:01)Telco talent acquisition and the challenge of filling roles with the right people (15:37)Related stories and links:The Notebook Dump: 800G milestones, AT&T adds fiber subs, and Netflix bucks streaming strugglesCiena and Altibox: Amsterdam bound with 800GGlobal Cloud Xchange battles global latency with subsea connectivityOTTs and geopolitics rule the waves in subsea cable world Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.