Light Reading Podcasts
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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.
Episodes
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Dec 21, 2023 • 26min
What's the Story? The reverberating revenue ramifications of the AT&T and Ericsson open RAN deal
Light Reading's Phil Harvey, Iain Morris and Mike Dano discuss the economic impact the AT&T and Ericsson open RAN deal could have on both large and small vendors in the telecom industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 19, 2023 • 25min
The Divide: How Highline and Ciena are tackling difficult deployments
This episode features Matt Hayes, CTO at Highline – a regional ISP owned by ITC Capital, serving Michigan, Nebraska, Texas, Kansas, Colorado and Georgia – and Kevin Sheehan, CTO of the Americas at Ciena, a partner of Highline's. We discuss where and how Highline is helping to close the digital divide for unserved and underserved regions with public and private funds, what role Ciena is playing in spurring those deployments and much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 15, 2023 • 24min
Sweepr CTO: 'Engagement' and 'containment' critical metrics for digital customer care
Sweepr CTO Jim Hannon discusses the evolutionary path of digital customer care and how contextual AI is helping to improve and harden the experience to entice customers to use (and reuse) those digital platforms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 12, 2023 • 19min
Ericsson casts shadow over Open RAN North America
Light Reading's Phil Harvey explained that while talk of AT&T and Ericsson's partnership dominated conversation at the Open RAN North America event, the news was surprising in light of Ericsson's lack of open RAN certifications. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 12, 2023 • 10min
What's the Story? Broadcom, MaxLinear give DOCSIS 3.1 a facelift
Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner discusses new developments by chipmakers Broadcom and MaxLinear and how their new DOCSIS 3.1 chips might impact the cable industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 9, 2023 • 23min
What's the Story? Optus further tarnishes reputation with network crash
Light Reading's Robert Clark joins the podcast to explain how Optus' network crash happened, and the impact it had on customers and their trust in the service provider. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 7, 2023 • 21min
The Divide: Federated CEO Iyad Tarazi on connecting students with private wireless
This week: Iyad Tarazi, CEO of Federated Wireless, on the company's efforts to close the digital divide with private wireless, including its recent deployment in Tukwila, Washington, connecting 1,200 students. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 6, 2023 • 27min
Helium Mobile takes DeWi nationwide with $20 mobile plan
Helium Mobile's Boris Renski joins the podcast to explain how the decentralized wireless company plans to scale nationwide with a new unlimited data plan for $20 per month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 5, 2023 • 23min
Funding, telco buy-in still needed to propel open RAN
Mari Silbey, Senior Director at US Ignite, joins the podcast to explain how government funding, such as NTIA grants, will support service provider engagement in open RAN deployments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 1, 2023 • 22min
vRAN is a 'mandatory step' for operators deploying open RAN
Gilles Garcia, senior director and business lead for the Data Center and Communications Group at AMD, joins the podcast to explain why virtual radio access networks (vRAN) could be an important step for service providers to take on the way to deploying open RAN Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
