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DC Blox sheds light on dark fiber, landing station buildouts

Light Reading Podcasts - April 29, 2024 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
DC Blox is just the latest example of a data center provider expanding to do much more as hyperscaler growth provides a catalyst for new dark fiber routes and connectivity services.

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The Divide: Joey Wender on US Treasury's $10B down payment on closing the digital divide

Light Reading Podcasts - April 29, 2024 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
This week: Joey Wender, director of the capital projects fund at the US Treasury Department, on the status of $10 billion in federal broadband deployment funds. Release date: 4/29/24 Show notes: https://www.lightreading.com/broadband/the-divide-joey-wender-on-us-treasury-s-10b-down-payment-on-c...

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For Verizon, 5G coverage at Jazz Fest is the CATS MEOW

Light Reading Podcasts - April 25, 2024 14:18 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Verizon joins the podcast to explain how the service provider is deploying both permanent and temporary network assets to provide New Orleans Jazz Fest concertgoers with 4G and 5G connectivity.

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Cable modem's 'father' sees his invention reach adulthood

Light Reading Podcasts - April 25, 2024 12:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard, considered by many as the 'father of the cable modem,' was recently inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame. He joins the podcast to discuss the past, present and future of broadband.

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Quantum Loophole's data center dominion

Light Reading Podcasts - April 24, 2024 16:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
A fiber-connected development of almost 3.5 square miles in Maryland's largest county aims to introduce a new way to plan for and accommodate hyperscaler growth and whatever the computing needs of AI will demand next.

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Great Plains CIO: Acquisitions ease operations transformation

Light Reading Podcasts - April 24, 2024 12:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Great Plains Communications CIO Katie Curtis explains how recent acquisitions have contributed to upgrading the telco's OSS/BSS.

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The Divide: Why BEAD funds should go to local service providers

Light Reading Podcasts - April 23, 2024 00:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Kerry Haughan, SVP, commercial strategy at Calix, discusses why Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) funds should go to local providers, and overcoming the hurdles making it hard for smaller providers to participate. Release date: 4/22/2024 Show notes: lightreading.com/broadband/the-di...

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#216- Weekly News Recap - April 15 - 19, 2024

Tower Talks with Inside Towers - April 22, 2024 19:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of April 15-19, 2024.  For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here. Support the show

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Verizon taps into 5G, the edge and the cloud to cut live TV sports

Light Reading Podcasts - April 18, 2024 00:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
At NAB, Verizon Business showed off the future of live TV production by using its public 5G network, in tandem with its edge compute capabilities and AWS's cloud, to cut and edit a live NHL game. Release date: 4/18/2024 Show notes: https://www.lightreading.com/video-broadcast/verizon-taps-into-...

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#115 - Wireless Water Cooler - Congressman Buddy Carter

Tower Talks with Inside Towers - April 17, 2024 18:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Co-hosts Patrick Halley, WIA CEO and President, and Jim Fryer, Inside Towers Managing Editor recently chatted with U.S. Congressman Buddy Carter (GA-01) on the Wireless Water Cooler podcast. The five-term Congressman is Chair of the Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee...

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#215 - Wireless Water Cooler - Congressman Buddy Carter

Tower Talks with Inside Towers - April 17, 2024 18:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Co-hosts Patrick Halley, WIA CEO and President, and Jim Fryer, Inside Towers Managing Editor recently chatted with U.S. Congressman Buddy Carter (GA-01) on the Wireless Water Cooler podcast. The five-term Congressman is Chair of the Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee...

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Weaving the Co-op Difference into Economic Development and Staff Storytelling, With Marty Walsh

The StoryConnect Podcast - April 17, 2024 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Do you have a local network of cooperative storytellers? From his dual roles as an economic development manager at People's Energy and board member for Cooperative Development Services, Marty Walsh’s has a unique take on co-op education and how Utility Pioneers can turn the cooperative ...

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Data center CTO weighs in on AI demands, liquid cooling and telecom transparency

Light Reading Podcasts - April 17, 2024 00:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
John Sasser, CTO, Sabey Data Centers, discusses the power, cooling and capacity requirements of AI and cloud computing clients. Sabey is expanding to new locations and reworking its existing buildings to deploy new infrastructure. Release date: 4/17/2024 Show notes: https://www.lightreading.com...

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Precision OT EVP on saving customers from optical 'landmines'

Light Reading Podcasts - April 17, 2024 00:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Keith Habberfield, EVP for Precision Optical Technologies (OT), joins the podcast with a behind-the-scenes look at the effort required to participate alongside 46 other companies in the OIF demo at the recent OFC Conference in San Diego. Release date: 4/17/2024 Show notes: https://www.lightrea...

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The Divide: Hughes SVP on low-density broadband and keeping satellite competitive

Light Reading Podcasts - April 16, 2024 00:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Mark Wymer, SVP at Hughes, joins podcast to discuss how the company's Jupiter-3 satellite has enabled faster service options, and how Hughes views satellite broadband's future as more federally funded fiber rolls out in rural areas. Release date: 4/16/24 Show notes: https://www.lightreading.com...

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Managing a New Brand, With Larry Mattox

The StoryConnect Podcast - April 10, 2024 11:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
In under three years, Central Rural Electric Co-op moved from breaking ground to 85% buildout of their broadband service, CentraNet, in Oklahoma. During a break from the Calix event, Larry Mattox shares how the small team managed this growth, a new brand and evolving member expectations...

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ICTP 297: Emergency communications, being prepared when disaster strikes and the Tampere Convention, with Sylvester Cadette of the ITU

ICT Pulse Podcast - April 10, 2024 06:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Natural disasters and other emergencies are not situations that can be completely avoided, but like insurance, it is good to have access to the requisite support in times of need. As we approach the 2024 North Atlantic hurricane season, we thought it opportune to reshare a conversation we had ...

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What's the Story? Vecima makes a $20M play for Casa's cable business

Light Reading Podcasts - April 10, 2024 00:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner joins the podcast to discuss Casa System's Chapter 11 filing and the company's plans to sell off its 5G and cable assets. Release date: 4/10/2024 Show notes: https://www.lightreading.com/finance/what-s-the-story-Vecima-makes-a-$20M-play-for-Casa's-cable-business

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#214 - Everest Infrastructure Partners: Global Growth Through Acquisitions

Tower Talks with Inside Towers - April 09, 2024 19:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
The tower business is alive and well, despite the slower pace of network builds among the U.S. mobile network operators. While the public tower companies are guiding to low single-digit growth in 2024, there is movement among the smaller, private tower companies. Private tower deals tend to be ...

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5G Transport priorities – insights from Heavy Reading's Operators Survey

Light Reading Podcasts - April 09, 2024 00:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin and Ciena's Francisco Sant'Anna discuss the current priorities of network operators on 5G transport and the state of the market. Sponsored by Ciena. Release date: 4/9/2024 Show notes: https://www.lightreading.com/5g/ciena-podcast-5g-transport-priorities-insights-...

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The Divide: Conexon's Jonathan Chambers on rural fiber, BEAD and the future of ACP

Light Reading Podcasts - April 09, 2024 00:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Jonathan Chambers, partner at Conexon, joins to discuss Conexon's progress in deploying rural fiber, plus his concerns about the $42 billion BEAD program, how to save the ACP and more. Release date: 4/9/2024 Show notes: https://www.lightreading.com/fttx/the-divide-conexon-s-jonathan-chambers-on...

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Light Reading Podcasts - April 09, 2024 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Ciena's Kailem Anderson explains the challenges telcos face in managing legacy OSS/BSS, and why Ciena used AI and a Kubernetes architecture in its new Blue Planet OSS platform. Release date: 4/9/2024 Show notes: https://www.lightreading.com/oss-bss-cx/ciena-vp-on-the-trouble-with-traditional-oss

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#213 - Weekly News Recap - April 1 - 5, 2024

Tower Talks with Inside Towers - April 08, 2024 18:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of April 1, 2024.  For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here. Support the show

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How AI is changing fiber design

Light Reading Podcasts - April 05, 2024 00:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
OFC 2024: According to Corning's Sharon Bois, fiber providers have an opportunity to bring a lot of innovation to service provider networks and data centers as bandwidth demands skyrocket. Release date: 4/5/2024 Show notes: https://www.lightreading.com/optical-networking/how-ai-is-changing-fib...

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Artificial intelligence driving network capacity and what this means for data center connectivity

Light Reading Podcasts - April 04, 2024 00:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
This episode of the Executive Spotlight Q&A, recorded onsite at OFC 2024, features Rob Shore, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing at Infinera. He discusses key industry trends driving bandwidth growth, provides perspective on challenges facing network operators, and shares how indium phosph...

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What's the Story? T-Mobile and SpaceX play the long game on direct-to-cell service

Light Reading Podcasts - April 04, 2024 00:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Light Reading editors discuss why it could take a while before service providers start seeing meaningful revenue from direct-to-cell satellite services, if ever. Release date: 4/4/2024 Show notes: https://www.lightreading.com/satellite/what-s-the-story-t-mobile-and-spacex-play-the-long-game-on-...

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Persona Based Marketing, With Chris Lovell

The StoryConnect Podcast - April 03, 2024 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
In an effort to move beyond features like speed, CL Tel has begun discussing its broadband based on what their service can do for specific customer profiles of personas like gamers, remote workers and families. Special: Recorded LIVE at NTCA

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ICTP 296: 2024 Expert Insights update on cyber threats and security in the Caribbean, with Obika Gellineau of KPMG Trinidad and Tobago

ICT Pulse Podcast - April 03, 2024 06:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
In the second instalment in our Expert insights series on cyber threats and security for 2024, and with Obika Gellineau, the Cyber Services Manager of KPMG in Trinidad and Tobago, he discusses, among other things:    *  the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) data leak; ...

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A Deep Dive into Iowa Broadband: Challenges, Solutions, and Collaboration - Episode 595 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast

Community Broadband Bits - April 02, 2024 14:19 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
In this latest podcast episode, Christopher and Curtis Dean from the Community Broadband Action Network (CBAN) discuss the state of broadband in Iowa. They highlight the challenges faced by local providers, emphasize the importance of local control, and announce upcoming events like the...

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The Divide: Why NaLA says the fight for ACP funds isn't over

Light Reading Podcasts - April 02, 2024 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Committee chairs with the National Lifeline Association (NaLA), Danielle Perry and Kristi Brown, on the need for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and why they're not giving up on getting funding from Congress. Release date: 4/1/2024 Show notes: https://www.lightreading.com/broadband/th...