Light Reading Podcasts

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 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-related services to offer more features and flexibility.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 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 entertainment choices.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, Kelsey and Mitch nerd out on coffee.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Integration (MSI) and talks about how OBS positions itself to help enterprises choose the right network services and technology suppliers. Ziser, Harvey and El Rashidy also discuss the challenges and opportunities for Orange Business Services as it acts as both a service provider and a service integrator. El Rashidy cites examples of big multinational enterprise customers like Sony and Siemens and elaborates on how the OBS MSI approach is working for them.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 companies bring down the cost of moving bits around the Internet.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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) it is for telcos to collaborate with cloud providers at the edge. Before they get going, Phil chips in with some thoughts on why the perception of telcos owning media companies has changed so much in the past 12 months.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.