Light Reading Podcasts
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
NTT's Bruce Snell on 'wide sweeping ramifications' of Log4j vulnerability
Bruce Snell, VP of security strategy and transformation at NTT Security, returns to the podcast to provide an update on the Log4j vulnerability, potential security threats to the supply chain and hig…
Lumen's Mark Dehus tracks DDoS threats
Mark Dehus, director of information security and threat intelligence for Lumen Technologies, joins the podcast to share the key findings from the operator's Q3 DDoS report, and his predictions for DD…
Juniper jumps on the O-RAN bandwagon
Jai Thattil, director of strategic marketing for Juniper Networks, joins the podcast to discuss Juniper's work in the open RAN space, why the networking company has partnered with Intel and Rakuten o…
MetTel CTO Ed Fox on clearing up confusion around SASE
MetTel CTO Ed Fox returns to the podcast for an update on enterprise interest in the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) trend that brings together networking and security services. Fox explains how Me…
The Divide: Gary Bolton on taking fiber advocacy to the states
Gary Bolton, president of the Fiber Broadband Association, returns to the podcast to discuss how the fiber industry's advocacy efforts are changing as the US federal government implements its $65 bil…
Omdia's Rik Turner on cloud permissions management
Rik Turner, principal analyst of emerging technologies at Omdia, is back on the podcast to explain how cloud permissions management (CPM) can help service providers and enterprises take a zero-trust …
What's the Story: Cable Next-Gen Business Services Digital Symposium
Light Reading's Alan Breznick joins the podcast to provide a preview of what attendees can expect to learn at the 15th annual Cable Next-Gen Business Services Digital Symposium on Thursday, Dec. 9. R…
The Divide: Digging into Pennsylvania's broadband map
In this episode, we hear from Harry Crissy and Tom Beresnyak, who work at Penn State Extension: a science-based educational organization run by Penn State University.
Harry and Tom both played a key r…
What's the story: The $22 billion Andromeda auction
On this episode, we talk with Light Reading's Mike Dano about all things spectrum auctions, including the "Andromeda" auction, which just wrapped up with $22 billion in bids. We also get into the sub…
What's the story: Altice USA flip flops on fiber
MixComm CEO: Making beamforming and mmWave for 5G, from antennas to algorithms
ICYMI: From our coverage of the Big 5G Event in early September, here's a short interview with Mike Noonen, CEO of MixComm.
In this interview with Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser, Noonen explains MixComm…
The Divide: Internet Society's Mark Buell on what's 'very good' and 'less good' in the broadband bill
KORE Wireless CEO: Looking beyond the IoT hype
ICYMI: From our coverage of Mobile World Congress Los Angeles in October, here's a short interview with KORE Wireless President and CEO Romil Bahl.
Bahl talks to Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser about the…
Making the most of the 6GHz spectrum band
ICYMI: From our coverage of Mobile World Congress Los Angeles in October, here's a short interview with Federated Wireless CEO Iyad Tarazi.
Tarazi talks to Light Reading's Mike Dano about how and why…
How to price and sell 5G to consumers
Telcos are excitedly deploying 5G and advertising it nonstop during American football games and there's a good reason for that: Making money from consumer 5G is challenging and may take a while.
Omdia…
The Divide: James Clark on preserving Native American culture with broadband
What's the story: High drama at Rogers Communications
MWCLA 21: The Light Reading Recap
Light Reading editor Kelsey Ziser, Jeff Baumgartner and Mike Dano join Phil Harvey for recap of some of the issues that were covered and smothered at Mobile World Congress Los Angeles.
The gang takes…
Rakuten's Tareq Amin: Conducting Symphony but changing the music
LOS ANGELES – MWC LA – This week Rakuten Symphony released a reference architecture for a distributed RAN node and cell site transport device called Symware. Rakuten's not getting in the hardware bus…
