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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.


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Update frequency
every 3 days
Average duration
21 minutes
Episodes
893
Years Active
2018 - 2025
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AT&T banks on public policy to propel open RAN deployments

AT&T banks on public policy to propel open RAN deployments

At last week's Open RAN North America event in New York, AT&T's Chris Boyer sat down with Light Reading to explain how the service provider is working with the government, academia and other organiza…
00:09:21  |   Tue 13 Dec 2022
The Notebook Dump: 5G transport, open RAN and NYC subways

The Notebook Dump: 5G transport, open RAN and NYC subways

Mike Dano, Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser attended Light Reading's 5G Transport & Networking Strategies event, held in conjunction with the Open RAN North America trade show in New York City this week.…
00:13:09  |   Fri 09 Dec 2022
Heavy Reading's Gabriel Brown: 5G's long road ahead

Heavy Reading's Gabriel Brown: 5G's long road ahead

At Light Reading's 5G Transport & Networking Strategies event, analyst Gabriel Brown discusses the reality of the 5G market – standalone 5G is still on the horizon and making all those systems work t…
00:07:52  |   Fri 09 Dec 2022
Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin: Lowering latency in 5G networks

Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin: Lowering latency in 5G networks

At Light Reading's one-day optical networking event, analyst Sterling Perrin recaps the highlights and discusses how transport networks are evolving to accommodate 5G latency demands.

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00:10:29  |   Fri 09 Dec 2022
The Divide: NDIA's Amy Huffman on how to build a state digital equity plan

The Divide: NDIA's Amy Huffman on how to build a state digital equity plan

On this episode we hear from Amy Huffman, policy director at the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA): a nonprofit organization working to close the digital divide in the US.


She joins the show …

00:32:09  |   Wed 07 Dec 2022
The Notebook Dump: 6G and broadband and bears – oh my!

The Notebook Dump: 6G and broadband and bears – oh my!

Jeff Baumgartner, Mike Dano, Nicole Ferraro, Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser discuss SES and Boeing's medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite launch planned for later this month, Dish Wireless plans to rule …
00:29:15  |   Fri 02 Dec 2022
The Divide: How Bluepeak is bringing broadband competition to overlooked cities

The Divide: How Bluepeak is bringing broadband competition to overlooked cities

This episode features Jeff Seidenfaden, chief commercial and customer experience officer at fiber broadband provider Bluepeak; and Mike Podoll, a resident of Altus, Oklahoma, and a subscriber to Blue…
00:20:13  |   Wed 30 Nov 2022
Boeing brings 5G and terrestrial tech to MEO satellites

Boeing brings 5G and terrestrial tech to MEO satellites

While 5G is a relatively nascent technology, it's already playing an important role in the satellite space race. Ryan Reid, president of Boeing Commercial Satellite Systems, International, recently j…
00:12:02  |   Wed 30 Nov 2022
SES CTO on launching software-defined satellites

SES CTO on launching software-defined satellites

Satellite operator SES has a busy year-end planned with the scheduled launch of two MEO satellites in mid-December. CTO Ruy Pinto met up with Light Reading on site at Boeing Satellite in El Segundo, …

00:19:23  |   Wed 23 Nov 2022
ATX CEO on bridging the labor gap and what's next in cable tech

ATX CEO on bridging the labor gap and what's next in cable tech

Whether it's upgrading existing hybrid fiber/coax (HFC), extending service to adjacent areas or bringing fiber and gigabit speeds to rural locations, the pace of network building has picked up among …
00:30:42  |   Tue 22 Nov 2022
The Notebook Dump: CTIA unimpressed with CBRS, Comcast unleashes HFC, shrinking MEO satellites

The Notebook Dump: CTIA unimpressed with CBRS, Comcast unleashes HFC, shrinking MEO satellites

Jeff Baumgartner, Mike Dano and Kelsey Ziser discuss whether anything interesting is going on in the CBRS spectrum band, updates on Comcast's hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) network, and Kelsey's tour of Boe…
00:29:36  |   Fri 18 Nov 2022
The Divide: Flume's CEO on what happened with NYC's Internet Master Plan

The Divide: Flume's CEO on what happened with NYC's Internet Master Plan

This episode features Prashanth Vijay, co-founder and CEO of Flume Internet. He returns to the podcast to discuss Flume's progress leveraging dark fiber to help close the digital divide in New York C…
00:21:41  |   Fri 18 Nov 2022
What's the Story? All SES wants for Christmas are MEO satellites

What's the Story? All SES wants for Christmas are MEO satellites

Just in time for the Holidays, satellite operator SES plans to launch about a half dozen new MEO satellites in mid-December. A second launch is scheduled for January of next year, together with launc…
00:08:29  |   Thu 17 Nov 2022
What's the Story? Edge computing ain't easy

What's the Story? Edge computing ain't easy

Light Reading's Mike Dano and Phil Harvey review the Leading Lights Awards categories they judged, ranging from 5G to optical transport.

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00:25:20  |   Wed 16 Nov 2022
What's the Story? Leading Lights entries double down on cloud native

What's the Story? Leading Lights entries double down on cloud native

Light Reading's Iain Morris and Kelsey Ziser review the Leading Lights Awards categories they judged and examine emerging trends that appeared in the submissions.

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00:21:33  |   Tue 15 Nov 2022
The Notebook Dump: Broadband prevails, satellites are cool and Twitter's a mess

The Notebook Dump: Broadband prevails, satellites are cool and Twitter's a mess

Light Reading editors Nicole Ferraro, Mike Dano and Phil Harvey gather around the microphones for an informal discussion of what happened during the work week ended November 11, 2022. This week's big…
00:29:54  |   Fri 11 Nov 2022
The Divide: Sharayah Lane on the need for Indigenous-led broadband solutions

The Divide: Sharayah Lane on the need for Indigenous-led broadband solutions

The Internet Society's Sharayah Lane joins the podcast to discuss the digital divide in indigenous communities across North America, where progress has and hasn't been made and broadband policy recom…
00:26:23  |   Fri 11 Nov 2022
How RDK is branching out to cover smart TVs and FWA

How RDK is branching out to cover smart TVs and FWA

Now spanning video and broadband devices and a subset of the IoT arena, the Reference Design Kit (RDK) has come a long way since humble beginnings that, as far as we can tell, extend back to circa 20…

00:29:53  |   Fri 11 Nov 2022
Software-as-a-Service: The new way telco core networks are delivered and operated

Software-as-a-Service: The new way telco core networks are delivered and operated

Nokia core networks SVP Fran Heeran answers Light Reading’s questions on how customers and the whole industry perceives Core Networks delivered and operated in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. #…
00:11:42  |   Fri 11 Nov 2022
US Cable has a strong hand in mobile, Recon Analytics' Roger Entner says

US Cable has a strong hand in mobile, Recon Analytics' Roger Entner says

Comcast and Charter Communications just came off a third quarter in which they added a record 729,000 mobile lines, extending their grand total to 9.61 million. As home broadband subscriber growth sl…

00:37:16  |   Thu 10 Nov 2022
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