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This feed is Light Reading's main podcast feed for "The Light Reading Podcast," "The Divide," "The Light Reading Extra," and "What's the Story?"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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sep 23, 2020 • 19min
Omdia's Dario Talmesio: How Apple will define the 5G market
In this overview of what's happening in the 5G market, Omdia Principal Analyst & Practice Leader Dario Talmesio discusses the 5G deployments to date, the biggest enterprise vertical opportunities and how Apple's products will kickstart 5G consumer acceptance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 20, 2020 • 12min
Omdia's James Crawshaw: How 5G will help an OSS market rebound
The most advanced 5G features anticipated by network operators, like network slicing, will require OSS systems to be modernized and expanded, says Omdia Principal Analyst James Crawshaw.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 19, 2020 • 11min
Omdia's Pablo Tomasi: 5G's role in enterprise private networks
Omdia Senior Analyst Pablo Tomasi says 5G won't be the main technology in private networks for a few years, but the 5G discussions in some verticals are moving the needle on planning and purchasing.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 19, 2020 • 11min
Heavy Reading analyst Gabriel Brown on O-RAN's progress & standalone 5G networks
Heavy Reading's Gabriel Brown discusses how O-RAN is gathering momentum in 5G networks and why that matters. He also weighs in on operator moves to embrace standalone 5G, and what's holding some of them back.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 18, 2020 • 29min
MetTel's Max Silber on how Phoenix is becoming a smart city
Max Silber, VP of Mobility and IoT for MetTel, discusses the service provider's IoT strategy for assisting the City of Phoenix in meeting its goal of becoming a zero-waste city by 2050. MetTel has worked with the city to provide automated vehicle location services via IoT-connected devices that monitor fuel usage, route efficiency, scheduling maintenance and more. In addition, Silber explains how MetTel used IoT technology to ensure driver safety, improve vehicle idle management, GPS tracking, Geo-fencing capabilities and provide other services for Brosnan Security's fleet of trucks.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 17, 2020 • 10min
What's the story: Omdia analyst James Crawshaw on the evolution of OSS
This week on the "What's the Story?" podcast, we're talking with Omdia principal analyst James Crawshaw about operations support systems (OSS). Omdia has a new report out about the OSS market, projecting that OSS will see 6.5% growth in 2021. James is here to talk more about what's driving that growth, what the evolution of OSS and the role of cloud in that evolution means for the industry at large, and what is likely to happen next in terms of mergers and acquisitions.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 15, 2020 • 15min
From our sponsor: Avast's Sean Obrey on creating seamless security across 5G and Wi-Fi networks
Network operators need to protect devices wherever they're at and Avast's Sean Obrey discusses how that can be done at the network level in a way that leads to solid user adoption, and better overall reporting and analytics. This podcast episode is sponsored by Avast, a global leader in digital security and family safety solutions for network operators and their customers.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 14, 2020 • 33min
Nick Feamster: COVID-19 challenges online teachers and service provider networks
Light Reading podcast veteran Prof. Nick Feamster from the University of Chicago shares how teachers can successfully adapt to online teaching, provides an update on his research on network usage and performance during COVID-19, and discusses the challenge municipalities face in providing Internet access to historically underserved areas.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 11, 2020 • 24min
Executive Spotlight Q&A: Cisco's Bill Gartner on optics and optical networking
Optics is a key technology pillar for modern networking and the cost of optics is becoming a larger part of the overall networking capex equation. Cisco wanted to control its fate in optics and Bill Gartner, Cisco SVP/GM optical systems and optics group, explains how the company did it. The Executive Spotlight Q&A is a sponsored Light Reading audio production.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 9, 2020 • 24min
CommScope execs talk rural broadband and latency in a pandemic
CommScope's Morgan Kurk and Dave Wright join the podcast to discuss challenges service providers face in delivering rural broadband services, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, they explain how the Universal Service Fund can support programs to address rural connectivity, and how CommScope is working with service providers to close the digital divide.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
