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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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The Divide: How LUS Fiber makes the muni model work in Lafayette, Louisiana

The Divide: How LUS Fiber makes the muni model work in Lafayette, Louisiana

On this episode, we hear from Ryan Meche, director of LUS Fiber, a municipal fiber provider in Lafayette, Louisiana. LUS Fiber emerged from Lafayette Utilities System (LUS), the city's provider of el…
00:19:58  |   Thu 21 Oct 2021
The Divide: What Viasat's Evan Dixon wants DC to know about satellite broadband

The Divide: What Viasat's Evan Dixon wants DC to know about satellite broadband

Evan Dixon, president of global fixed broadband at Viasat, joins the podcast to discuss the company's role in tackling the digital divide in the US and abroad. He also talks about how Viasat's forthc…
00:21:41  |   Thu 07 Oct 2021
Nokia Deepfield CTO: How DDoS attacks are changing

Nokia Deepfield CTO: How DDoS attacks are changing

Craig Labovitz, CTO for the Nokia Deepfield business, is watching how distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have changed throughout the pandemic and how Internet growth changes the nature of c…

00:27:55  |   Thu 07 Oct 2021
Consolidated CEO bets the house on fiber

Consolidated CEO bets the house on fiber

Consolidated CEO all in on fiber over FWA

Bob Udell, president and CEO for Consolidated Communications, joins the podcast to provide an update on the service provider's fiber buildout plan and the com…

00:21:33  |   Tue 05 Oct 2021
The Divide: How broadband impacts public health

The Divide: How broadband impacts public health

Dr. Amy Sheon is a digital health equity consultant and president of Public Health Innovators, which provides digital health equity strategy support to healthcare systems, governments and advocacy gr…
00:17:34  |   Fri 01 Oct 2021
Verizon zeroes in on recovery efforts and network refresh

Verizon zeroes in on recovery efforts and network refresh

Suzanne Schnaars, senior manager of network engineering for Verizon, joins the podcast to discuss her team's work to integrate new technology into Verizon's network, support recovery efforts and less…

00:34:35  |   Thu 30 Sep 2021
BT on clearing up the cloudy relationship between telcos and hyperscalers

BT on clearing up the cloudy relationship between telcos and hyperscalers

BT Global's Chet Patel joins the podcast for a discussion on how the relationship between telcos and hyperscalers is changing as a result of enterprise demand.


As enterprises become more reliant on cl…

00:22:27  |   Mon 27 Sep 2021
The Leading Lights finalists: Part III

The Leading Lights finalists: Part III

Light Reading's editors are in the middle of judging the 2021 Leading Lights Awards and this is the third and final episode in a three-part podcast series discussing the Leading Lights finalists. 


On …

00:32:41  |   Sat 25 Sep 2021
5G World: Mavenir EVP dishes on open RAN's technology advantage

5G World: Mavenir EVP dishes on open RAN's technology advantage

Open RAN is a truly different network architecture and over the next five years, those RAN sites will be able to perform functions that traditional RAN won't be able to do, according to Mavenir's EVP…

00:10:00  |   Sat 25 Sep 2021
5G World: Vodafone takes on its telco legacy

5G World: Vodafone takes on its telco legacy

Vodafone's chief network officer, Andrea Donà, said the way to the 5G future is to first make sure you radically simplify and take care of legacy networks and services.

Donà says that telcos need to "…

00:07:07  |   Fri 24 Sep 2021
5G World: Reasons to be upbeat about 5G and the telco cloud future

5G World: Reasons to be upbeat about 5G and the telco cloud future

There are definitely reasons to be upbeat about the trajectory of 5G, according to Dario Talmesio, Omdia's research director for service provider strategy and regulation. This is especially true if y…
00:07:17  |   Thu 23 Sep 2021
5G World: The 5G icon is starting to mean something

5G World: The 5G icon is starting to mean something

New, improved 5G radios and other products are starting to make a difference in service provider deployments, according to Gabriel Brown, Heavy Reading principal analyst covering mobile network infra…

00:09:41  |   Thu 23 Sep 2021
The Leading Lights finalists: Part II

The Leading Lights finalists: Part II

Light Reading's editors are in the middle of judging the 2021 Leading Lights Awards and this is the second in a three-part podcast series discussing the Leading Lights finalists. 


On this podcast, Lig…

00:23:38  |   Thu 23 Sep 2021
Verizon's Shah on private networks, now and later

Verizon's Shah on private networks, now and later

Anand Shah, director of Technology and Architecture for Verizon, joins the podcast to share insight into industry progress for deploying network slicing, private networks and Open RAN.


 "[Open RAN] in…

00:26:34  |   Wed 22 Sep 2021
Cisco siphons $20M into Rural Broadband Innovation Center

Cisco siphons $20M into Rural Broadband Innovation Center

The goal of the Cisco Rural Broadband Innovation Center is to provide service providers of any size with access to testing the same level of technologies that support broadband access, says Robin Old…
00:11:30  |   Tue 21 Sep 2021
Light Reading Recap: Week ending Sept. 17

Light Reading Recap: Week ending Sept. 17

Last week's telecom news highlights included a look at the wild valuation ride of social media and messaging platform Discord as it recently rejected a $12 billion takeover bid and then a $500 millio…
00:02:34  |   Mon 20 Sep 2021
The Divide: How Uprise Fiber seeks to solve what you hate about your ISP

The Divide: How Uprise Fiber seeks to solve what you hate about your ISP

In this episode, we hear from Sam Sanders, founder CEO of Uprise Fiber. Uprise was launched two years ago on the West Coast by a group of telecom industry vets eager to use their expertise to provide…
00:27:16  |   Thu 16 Sep 2021
Windstream: SD-WAN stalled, not squashed by pandemic

Windstream: SD-WAN stalled, not squashed by pandemic

Windstream CMO Mike Flannery joins the podcast to discuss why enterprises didn't deploy SD-WAN as widely as the industry anticipated they would at the start of the pandemic. Flannery explains how con…

00:22:46  |   Thu 16 Sep 2021
The Leading Lights finalists: Part I

The Leading Lights finalists: Part I

Light Reading's editors are in the middle of judging the 2021 Leading Lights Awards and this is the first in a three-part podcast series discussing the Leading Lights finalists. 


On this podcast, Ligh…

00:25:19  |   Wed 15 Sep 2021
Matrixx CTO: How modern charging, billing unlocks new mobile services

Matrixx CTO: How modern charging, billing unlocks new mobile services

Marc Price, CTO of Matrixx Software, joins the podcast to explain how operators can rethink traditional mobile pricing models for 5G services. Price recently spoke at Light Reading's BIG 5G Event to …

00:30:12  |   Tue 14 Sep 2021
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