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What's the story: Light Reading's Iain Morris on Orange's deal with TRC
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Light Reading's Iain Morris joins us to talk about convergence and consolidation amongst European telcos. France's Orange recently took a controlling stake in Telekom Romania Communications (TRC), and Iain will shed some light on what this deal means for the individual telcos and the industry at large.
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AI boom breathes new life into optics for the data center
32:08Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin joined the podcast to discuss the optical networking industry's opportunity to cash in on the AI boom in the data center.
The Divide: How Surf Internet is growing its fiber footprint in the Great Lakes region
29:01This week: Gene Crusie, CEO of Surf Internet, an ISP in Indiana, Michigan and Illinois, on using a blend of private and public funds to reach unserved and underserved areas, how Surf plans to participate in BEAD and more.
Princeton's Jennifer Rexford: Programmability in 5G access networks is a high stakes game
25:50Professor Jennifer Rexford joins the podcast to discuss why network programmability is critical to the performance of 5G access networks.
What's the Story? Iliad eyes acquisition of Ukraine's Datagroup-Volia
09:44Light Reading's Tereza Krásová joins the podcast to discuss why operator group Iliad wants to purchase Ukrainian fixed provider Datagroup-Volia.
The Divide: Joey Wender on US Treasury's $10B down payment on closing the digital divide
23:08This 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.
DC Blox sheds light on dark fiber, landing station buildouts
14:45DC 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.For Verizon, 5G coverage at Jazz Fest is the CATS MEOW
11:04Verizon 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.Cable modem's 'father' sees his invention reach adulthood
27:22Rouzbeh 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.Quantum Loophole's data center dominion
20:34A 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.