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Light Reading Podcasts

 Phil Harvey

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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Telcos must pivot to app quality of experience focus as OTT traffic floods networks – Sandvine

Telcos must pivot to app quality of experience focus as OTT traffic floods networks – Sandvine

Service providers can move toward sustainable, profitable business models if they optimize and monetize the quality of experience they deliver to consumers and enterprises on behalf of OTT players. #…
00:19:09  |   Thu 10 Nov 2022
The Notebook Dump: Broadband and magic mushrooms on the ballot

The Notebook Dump: Broadband and magic mushrooms on the ballot

Earnings season is in full force and Light Reading Editors Jeff Baumgartner, Mike Dano, Nicole Ferraro and Kelsey Ziser discuss which companies had a banner Q3 and others that hit some speed bumps in…
00:28:39  |   Fri 04 Nov 2022
The Divide: How SiFi Networks tackles digital inequity with open access 'FiberCities'

The Divide: How SiFi Networks tackles digital inequity with open access 'FiberCities'

This episode features Shawn Parker, vice president of government affairs at SiFi Networks: which has been building and operating open access fiber networks for about a decade, with 32 "FiberCities" c…
00:18:34  |   Fri 04 Nov 2022
What's the Story? Fixed wireless swamps Leading Lights Awards

What's the Story? Fixed wireless swamps Leading Lights Awards

Light Reading's Alan Breznick reviews the Leading Lights Awards categories he judged and examines surprising trends that appeared in the submissions.

In particular, Alan said there was a significant n…

00:06:11  |   Thu 03 Nov 2022
Telstra Americas' Noah Drake dives into subsea cable network planning

Telstra Americas' Noah Drake dives into subsea cable network planning

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 p…

00:23:01  |   Wed 02 Nov 2022
Velocix CEO on pay-TV's streaming shift and how to get more out of the cloud DVR

Velocix CEO on pay-TV's streaming shift and how to get more out of the cloud DVR

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.


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00:28:23  |   Tue 01 Nov 2022
The Notebook Dump: Ghosts, ghouls and zombies of telecom

The Notebook Dump: Ghosts, ghouls and zombies of telecom

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.

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00:24:54  |   Mon 31 Oct 2022
Enabling new 5G network services

Enabling new 5G network services

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 kin…
00:16:25  |   Sat 29 Oct 2022
What's the Story? Leading Lights finalist trends in streaming video and broadband

What's the Story? Leading Lights finalist trends in streaming video and broadband

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.

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00:15:21  |   Fri 28 Oct 2022
Evolving telecommunications BSS to enable CSPs for future revenue growth

Evolving telecommunications BSS to enable CSPs for future revenue growth

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

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00:20:03  |   Wed 26 Oct 2022
Interactive TV and living in the FAST lane

Interactive TV and living in the FAST lane

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 televisi…
00:36:14  |   Tue 25 Oct 2022
Omdia: SASE has barely left the starting block

Omdia: SASE has barely left the starting block

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 Fe…

00:24:29  |   Tue 25 Oct 2022
What's the Story? AT&T from the edge to the cloud

What's the Story? AT&T from the edge to the cloud

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 First…

00:18:10  |   Mon 24 Oct 2022
Rakuten Mobile's Tareq Amin: Symware celebration

Rakuten Mobile's Tareq Amin: Symware celebration

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 …

00:21:19  |   Sun 23 Oct 2022
Pivotal Commware: Speeding up FWA

Pivotal Commware: Speeding up FWA

Pivotal Commware CEO Brian Deutsch discusses his company's new as-a-service offering, Pivotal Turnkey Services. The service, offered to Pivotal's network operator customers, aims to speed up deployme…
00:16:57  |   Sat 22 Oct 2022
The Notebook Dump: 800G milestones, AT&T adds fiber subs, and Netflix bucks streaming struggles

The Notebook Dump: 800G milestones, AT&T adds fiber subs, and Netflix bucks streaming struggles

Light Reading editors Jeff Baumgartner, Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser discuss subsea cable updates and Ciena and Alitbox's 800G deployment from Amsterdam to Copenhagen. The editors also discuss Phil's…
00:26:34  |   Fri 21 Oct 2022
Reach Mobile CEO on 'Shopifying' mobile, broadband and IoT

Reach Mobile CEO on 'Shopifying' mobile, broadband and IoT

Shopify has been using its e-commerce platform to provide an easy path for partners to sell products online for more than 15 years. Reach Mobile believes its platform offers something similar for the…

00:29:35  |   Thu 20 Oct 2022
The Divide: How Presidio collaborates with the public sector on connectivity

The Divide: How Presidio collaborates with the public sector on connectivity

This episode features Cyndi Barrera, the sales vice president of SLED West at digital services and solutions provider Presidio. She and her team work with and advise public sector clients on technolo…
00:15:30  |   Thu 20 Oct 2022
Ciena and Altibox: Amsterdam bound with 800G

Ciena and Altibox: Amsterdam bound with 800G

Ciena and Altibox discuss their recent 800G deployment over 1,100 KM between Amsterdam and Copenhagen.

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00:14:57  |   Wed 19 Oct 2022
Global Cloud Xchange battles global latency with subsea connectivity

Global Cloud Xchange battles global latency with subsea connectivity

Subsea cable operators face the unique challenge of balancing future capacity demands while deploying and maintaining cable systems meant to last 25 to 30 years. Jim Fagan, chief strategy and revenue…

00:23:07  |   Tue 18 Oct 2022
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