Light Reading Podcasts

Network convergence was a primary theme at Cable Congress and Cable-Next Gen Europe in Berlin as cable operators in the region push ahead with plans to stitch together fixed, wireless and mobile networks into one common service platform. Cable operators in Europe are well ahead of their North American counterparts with regarding new distributed access architectures and they are showing very little interest in a Generic Access Platform initiative for standardized nodes that is getting underway in the US.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nuage Networks CEO Sunil Khandekar joins Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser to discuss the value of having standards for an emerging market like SD-WAN and how Nuage is working with organizations like MEF to make carrier-offered SD-WAN a more valuable service.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser interview Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim about what's next for Juniper. The conversation covered Juniper's big bet on 400G, how the vendor can stand out in the market against competitors like Arista and Cisco, and where Juniper's next wave of telecom momentum will come from.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a special news podcast, Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner, Dan Jones and Phil Harvey gather around the microphones to talk about the launch of HBO Max. AT&T and WarnerMedia expect to have 50 million (HBO and) HBO Max subscribers in the US in about five years. But how will the carrier navigate the choppy waters of negotiating with HBO's pay-TV provider distributors while simultaneously trying to put them out of business? Once we discuss that elephant-in-the-room service provider angle, we put our consumer hats on and discuss how we consume HBO services currently, and what questions we hope to have answered by the time HBO Max launches. We're probably not like other consumers in that it doesn't take much to confuse all three of us at once, but please do listen because you might have a lot of the same questions in your home.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been a week since we left California and wrapped up at MWC Los Angeles 2019. What did our analyst colleagues and fellow editors think of all the big booths, meetings and crowded corridors? In this episode, Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey dig through the podcast studio voicemail to listen to insights from Ovum's Daryl Schoolar and Mike Sapien, Heavy Reading's Jennifer Clarke and Light Reading's Mike Dano. To kick things off, Phil recalls his meeting with the GSMA's Ana Tavares Lattibeaudiere. She seemed to connect the dots between a lot of carrier businesses heading from device-driven transactions to connectivity-fed managed services. Then, as expected, Phil griped about trade show coffee and heaped praise on the local gin distillery. As each of Phil's and Kelsey's colleagues called in, they were asked to relay their favorite thing about the show, their least favorite thing and to name at least one good meal or beverage they consumed while in town. Listen and learn which OSS/BSS category suddenly seems hot again, which analyst is hot on the trail of IoT developments and which carrier's cocktail hour punch tasted the worst.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The ghosts, geeks and goblins of telecom tech come out to play in this very foolish and ghoulish episode of the Light Reading Podcast. Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and her spooky pals -- Light Reading behead-itor Phil Harvey and US Ignite firestarter Mari Silbey -- discuss some of the technologies that still haunt them to this day. Phil opines on why consumers were so scared of the Facebook phone. Kelsey is creeped out all over again by Google Glass. Mari throws her hands up to the heavens and asks, "Why, WiMax, Why?!!" We dance all over the graves of a few other tech ideas and products, too. (R.I.P. home networking before the cloud.) And Mari shares a surprising bit of news about a videophone network that may actually be back from the dead. Happy Halloween, you silly souls.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Layne Levine, president of the Enterprise & Wholesale business unit at Windstream, isn't confused about SD-WAN's potential. "This is the next big technology transformation in the communications world and I think it's going to completely upend some companies' business models," he told Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser. Listen to the entire interview here and check out the show notes on www.lightreading.com.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will Barkis leads the smart cities portfolio at Orange Silicon Valley's innovation lab and he spoke to Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey about the potential and privacy worries surrounding computer vision and what happens when municipalities begin using AI to do things like facial recognition. Also, Barkis discusses what market advantage service providers might have when pursuing smart cities opportunities.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading Editors Ray Le Maistre and Mike Dano discuss the key takeaways from Light Reading's 5G Transport & the Edge event in New York City. This is a really short interview, only 5 minutes, recorded just after the sessions wrapped up on Thursday, Oct. 10. Enjoy!Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Alan Breznick, Jeff Baumgartner and Phil Harveydiscuss the stuff they've presented, seen and overheard at SCTE's Cable-Tec Expo 2019 in New Orleans last week. This podcast, recorded on Thursday, Oct. 3, is a tad noisy because it was recorded right smack in the middle of the Expo floor, following Jeff's panel during the Smart Cities track. The trio discusses cable's relationship to 5G, the impact of virtualization on cable networks and the mystery behind why giant venues like convention centers think that boiling coffee is a good idea.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.