Light Reading Podcasts

Juniper CTO Raj Yavatkar joins the Light Reading podcast to discuss Juniper's strategy to use machine learning and AI to help customers build "self-driving" enterprise networks. The acquisition of Mist Systems brought that capability to Wi-Fi access points, he explains. Once Juniper completes its acquisition of 128 Technology, it can improve on its AI-driven approach to its SD-WAN and WAN assurance offerings, too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Heavy Reading's Gabriel Brown recap the 5G Ecosystem Digital Symposium and discuss the state of the industry when it comes to telecom 5G deployments, and what is likely to happen next.Brown starts off by recalling the service provider keynote delivered October 19 by Telecom Italia's Giovanni Romano. The Italian 5G ecosystem has been looking beyond the smartphone from the very beginning, Brown said and, as a result, both TIM and other operators have done a lot of work on advanced use cases for 5G. As 5G is deployed around the world, operators will want to keep an eye on TIM and how it got a head start on building 5G apps and services for vertical industries.Private networks and 5GIn the second part of the discussion, Brown recaps the second part of the symposium, which occurred on October 21, and featured keynotes and panels on private networks. One of the day's highlights was an update from Catherine Gull, head of Business Development at Three Private Networks, the operator that has built a private network for London's Heathrow Airport.Apple's 5G introThe discussion wraps up with a summary of some reasons why Apple put so much emphasis on 5G during its launch event for the iPhone 12 on October 16. Brown said there is a responsibility Apple has to the whole telecom ecosystem to deliver a new generation of handsets on a predictable schedule. If Apple waited too late to put out a 5G product, the telecom industry would be in a world of hurt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Iain Morris and Kelsey Ziser discuss highlights from last week's BBWF event, including an update from Telefonica CTO Enrique Blanco on the operator's efforts around fiber buildouts, both in Spain and South America. In addition, Morris and Ziser discuss women in comms sessions on new career opportunities around 5G deployments, closing the gender gap in telecom and building relationships with mentors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Boingo's SVP of global strategy and emerging businesses, Mike Zeto, joins the podcast to discuss the opportunities in building private networks and how the pandemic is accelerating the need for some buildouts. Zeto explains how, even when built for enterprises, those networks and the capacity they bring can help service providers accomplish their goals as well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, we're talking with Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser about recent product updates in the SD-WAN market to reflect the need for stronger security in the age of remote work.Kelsey is here to tell us more about what she's hearing from SD-WAN players about these service updates, what this shift in focus means for industry competition, and what we can expect to happen next. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Alan Breznick and Jeff Baumgartner recap the highlights from last week's Cable Next-Gen Digital Symposium, which wrapped up Thursday, October 8. The cable aces provide an update on the challenges and opportunities of utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities in cable architectures. Breznick and Baumgartner also discuss progress made on DOCSIS 4.0, momentum around Remote MAC-PHY, different approaches to distributed access architecture and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we are once again joined by Sean Obrey from Avast for a discussion on cybersecurity. This time we talk about how artificial intelligence is being used to improve security for service providers. This leads to a discussion about Avast's Smart Life platform and what sets it apart from earlier generations of security products and what those differences will mean for service provider partners and their customers.This podcast episode is sponsored by Avast, a global leader in digital security and family safety solutions for network operators and their customers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Alan Breznick and Jeff Baumgartner discuss the highlights of the Cable Next-Gen Digital Symposium on Tuesday, Oct. 6. While the pandemic appeared to slow the growth of cable business services in the second quarter, industry experts forecast expansion for business services in the third quarter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we're talking with Light Reading's Mike Dano about Starlink, the satellite broadband service from SpaceX.SpaceX continues to launch Starlink satellites as it preps for its commercial debut. And just this week, Elon Musk suggested in a Tweet that he expects to take Starlink public in a few years. Mike is here to talk more about Starlink, what we know about the satellite service so far and how it may (or may not) disrupt the broadband industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Radware's CTO, David Aviv, and VP of strategy, Mike O'Malley, discuss security concerns that companies have as they get ready for 5G and endeavor to protect applications and services in their data centers, edge networks and cloud deployments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.