Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner

Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner joins the podcast to discuss&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lightreading.com/cable-technology/casa-systems-to-sell-off-its-cable-and-5g-core-ran-businesses" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Casa System's Chapter 11 filing</a>&nbsp;and the company's plans to sell off its 5G and cable assets.&nbsp;

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

Kailem Anderson, VP and GM for global products and delivery, Ciena

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.

Ciena VP on the trouble with traditional OSS

Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin and Ciena's Francisco Sant’Anna

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, based on the results from the recent 5G Network Strategies Operator Survey. Sponsored by Ciena.

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

Jonathan Chambers, partner, Conexon

This week: 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.

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

Sharon Bois, division VP of product line and marketing, Corning Optical Fiber and Cable

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.

How AI is changing fiber design

Rob Shore, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing, Infinera

This episode of the Executive Spotlight Q&amp;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 phosphide-based photonic integrated circuit solutions are helping network operators overcome these challenges. Sponsored by Infinera.

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

Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, Light Reading

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.

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

Guests: Danielle Perry and Kristi Brown, committee chairs, National Lifeline Association (NaLA)

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.

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

Ian Redpath, research director, Omdia

From OFC: Omdia's Ian Redpath joins the podcast to discuss how the optical industry is stepping up to the challenge of providing the necessary connectivity inside and outside the data center to power AI workloads.

AI tide could raise boats in optical industry

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