Light Reading Podcasts

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.

In the Halloween edition of The Notebook Dump, Light Reading editors walk through the digital cemetery looking for gadget zombies and technologies that still haunt us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shekar Ayyar, chairman and CEO of Arrcus, sees a lot of upside for telcos wanting to create new network services. His optimism is rooted in the changes he sees in network infrastructure and a new kind of convergence between enterprise and service provider networks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner and Nicole Ferraro discuss the 2022 Leading Lights Awards categories they judged, the finalists they selected and trends they noticed in the submissions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of the recent surveys by Comviva Research, across 75 C-level telecom executives globally, suggests that 60% believe their BSS is not ready for future needs. #sponsored Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Weber, who once headed up video product for AT&T and its U-verse services, shifted gears years ago to take the CEO slot at Zone TV. These days, he's focused on an older TV idea – interactive television – that has found new interest thanks to IP connectivity and optimism about the category from both operators and programmers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While vendors and service providers have made much ado about secure access service edge (SASE), the technology framework is still in its nascent phase, according to Omdia Analysts Adeline Phua and Fernando Montenegro."I think everybody's really excited about SASE because enterprises keep asking about it," said Phua. "It's got so much buzz in the market. And we're thinking that maybe adoption is really hitting that tipping point, only to find out when we talk to service providers and to enterprises that the adoption is really not there yet."Phua and Montenegro explain why there's still a learning curve about SASE, how service providers can better approach enterprises interested in adopting SASE and their forecasts for the market moving forward.You can download a lightly edited transcript of the podcast here.Here are a few topics we covered:Omdia's definition of SASE (00:32)Service provider adoption of SASE (02:58)Why SD-WAN adoption is still light (04:39)How service providers can better educate enterprises about SASE (07:32)Types of deployment options for SASE (14:07)Where enterprises should start on their SASE journey (19:46)Related stories and links:SASE: Waiting for the tipping pointSD-WAN roundup: Cisco and Azure team up; Orange adds 'vroom' to SD-WANCloud and hosted UC services outpace growth on-premiseSecurity and cloud app demands underpin SASE market growth Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Phil Harvey discusses his recent tour of AT&T's central office. Phil also examines AT&T's edge strategy, public cloud partnership with Microsoft and provides an update on AT&T's FirstNet emergency response service.You can download a lightly edited transcript of the podcast here.Here are a few topics we covered:Overview of Phil's tour of AT&T's central office. (01:00)An inside look at AT&T's 5G and fiber focus. (02:42)AT&T's approach to the public cloud. (06:32)Why utilizing the public cloud could be more cost-efficient for service providers. (10:52)Update on FirstNet emergency response service. (13:05)Related stories and links:An inside look at AT&T's 5G and fiber focusWhat's behind AT&T's midband momentum?AT&T's fiber sub base surpasses its 'non-fiber' baseAT&T quietly cuts another 2,500 jobs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

LAS VEGAS – #MWC22 – Tareq Amin, CEO of Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Symphony, discusses how he got Symware from being a reference architecture to a shipping product, with plans to deploy 30,000 units in Rakuten Mobile's network in Japan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.