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
- 892
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Verizon's Suzanne Widup on data theft and donuts
Verizon's Suzanne Widup joins the podcast to provide insight into cybersecurity trends and share key findings from the service provider's annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). The full rep…
00:20:37 |
Thu 12 Aug 2021
The Divide: How Flume is tapping NYC's dark fiber to deliver affordable broadband
On this episode, we hear from Prashanth Vijay, founder and CEO of Flume, a last-mile, dark-fiber-based home broadband service.
Flume was launched in New York City in 2020 to introduce competition to t…
00:13:33 |
Thu 12 Aug 2021
Light Reading Recap: Week ending August 6
Last week's telecom news highlights included an overview of Rakuten's impressively aggressive plans, a look at Telegram's rapid growth and the looming threat it presents to telcos, and a summary of t…
00:03:30 |
Mon 09 Aug 2021
Clearfield CEO Cheri Beranek on the growth of 'community' broadband
Clearfield CEO Cheri Beranek joins the podcast to talk about how she's helped build a company that keeps growing as more and more community broadband providers deploy fiber. Clearfield classifies uti…
00:19:49 |
Fri 06 Aug 2021
The Divide: Amdocs' Anthony Goonetilleke on the industry's shifting priorities
On this episode, we hear from Anthony Goonetilleke, group president of media, network and technology at Amdocs: a software and services provider for communications and media companies.We discuss how …
00:16:26 |
Fri 06 Aug 2021
Verizon uses computer vision to help customers help themselves
Verizon's Erik Sheehan joins the Light Reading podcast to provide insight into the operator's use of computer vision for a variety of reasons, such as assisting in network operations and improving te…
00:21:58 |
Fri 06 Aug 2021
Lumen's Mike Benjamin: How telcos can catch a RAT
Lumen's Mike Benjamin joins the podcast to provide insight into a new remote access trojan, and explain who and what the bad actors were targeting.
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00:21:32 |
Sun 01 Aug 2021
The FBA's Gary Bolton on training the next wave of fiber techs
Gary Bolton, president and CEO of the Fiber Broadband Association, discusses the newly launched Optical Telecom Installation Certification (OpTIC) program, a new training and certification curriculum…
00:18:37 |
Sat 31 Jul 2021
NTT Security's Bruce Snell and David Gray: Tracking Kaseya
The Kaseya ransomware attack is the latest in a trend of bad actors working together to target the supply chain.
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00:18:44 |
Sat 31 Jul 2021
Light Reading Recap: Week ending July 23
Last week's telecom news highlights included some spectrum auction and siesta news from Spain, an update on how Verizon moved forward with a fabulous, free 5G phone promotion, and you'll find out wha…
00:03:04 |
Mon 26 Jul 2021
Orange Silicon Valley COO Gabriel Sidhom: How telcos and cloud providers get along
Gabriel Sidhom, COO for Orange Silicon Valley, joins the podcast to provide insight into service providers' move to the cloud and shares five drivers that have pushed that cloud journey forward.Orang…
00:21:43 |
Fri 23 Jul 2021
The Divide: Hughes' Paul Gaske on upping speeds with a 'massive new satellite'
On this episode, we hear from Paul Gaske, EVP and general manager for HughesNet in North America, which operates the largest satellite broadband network in the US.Hughes primarily connects rural area…
00:14:28 |
Thu 22 Jul 2021
Digital twinning at the Tour de France
Any major sporting event has plenty going on behind the scenes. On this podcast, NTT's wizard behind the curtain, aka Tim Wade, shares his insight into data capture and analysis for the Tour de Franc…
00:24:33 |
Thu 15 Jul 2021
The Divide: How Kajeet keeps kids and communities connected
On this episode, we hear from Dominic Marcellino, director of strategy and business development for Kajeet: a provider of Internet connectivity services for students, enterprises and state and local …
00:20:09 |
Thu 15 Jul 2021
Light Reading Recap: Week ending July 9
Last week's telecom news highlights included some revealing numbers about the annual MWC Barcelona event, the US government walking back an unprecedented cloud computing contract for its defense syst…
00:03:20 |
Mon 12 Jul 2021
LR Editors: More pitches be crazy!
Light Reading's editors are premium targets for PR firms and marketing experts all across the media landscape. But not all story ideas make it from the inbox to the front page.Our roundup of near-mis…
00:20:15 |
Fri 02 Jul 2021
The Divide: CORI's Matt Dunne on closing the rural opportunity gap
On this episode, we hear from Matt Dunne, founder and executive director of the Center on Rural Innovation (CORI), a nonprofit action tank that started in 2017 to close the rural opportunity gap for …
00:19:57 |
Thu 01 Jul 2021
Executive Spotlight Q&A: Here Technologies – Digital twins and 5G networks
Digital Twins, high fidelity digital mirrors of processes or physical objects, are being used in many industries to optimize business outcomes but remain relatively new in telecommunications and 5G n…
00:20:59 |
Tue 29 Jun 2021
Light Reading recap: Week ending June 25
Last week's telecom news highlights included a look back at some huge 5G product news for Nokia, a summary of some new cloudy ideas coming from Mobile World Congress, and a summary of what's up at Sw…
00:02:34 |
Mon 28 Jun 2021
Cohere CEO: Open RAN ideal for enterprise applications
Ray Dolan, chairman and CEO of Cohere Technologies, joins the Light Reading podcast to discuss how Cohere is working with partners such as VMware, Capgemini Engineering and Intel on developing an ope…
00:22:52 |
Fri 25 Jun 2021
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