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Light Reading Podcasts
Why operators and enterprises are turning to LoRaWAN
Season 5
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LoRa Alliance CEO Alper Yegin joins Light Reading's Phil Harvey to discuss LoRaWAN’s ten-year journey and its role in powering massive IoT. They also examine why leading operators are investing in LoRaWAN alongside 5G, and where the technology shines.
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The rise of 25G and 50G PON
22:11||Season 5Nokia's Geert Heyninck discusses how 25G/50G PON are shaping the next wave of connectivity and how operators can harness them to drive new growth.
The Divide: How NYC is breaking broadband barriers with 'Neighborhood Tech Help'
35:38||Season 5This week: Dave Seliger (NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development) and Dr. Brandy McNeil (New York Public Library) discuss New York's Neighborhood Tech Help program and the role it plays in solving the digital divide.
Signal Strength: What's next for DOCSIS and Verizon's fiber strategy?
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The Divide: Paolo Balboa on NYC's road to achieving digital equity
28:06||Season 5This week: Paolo Balboa, NYC's chief digital equity officer, joins the podcast to discuss the main barriers to broadband throughout New York, what's been accomplished so far with the city's Digital Equity Roadmap and more.
The Divide: Gigi Sohn on the bad state of BEAD and promise of public broadband
34:09||Season 5This week: Gigi Sohn, executive director, American Association for Public Broadband, on why the revised BEAD program is unlikely to live up to its initial promise and how public broadband networks can deliver for communities.
Tech and policy set to collide at SCTE TechExpo 2025
25:54||Season 5SCTE's Maria Popo and Janelle Morse join the podcast to talk themes and topics that will dominate TechExpo 2025 in Washington, DC. Atlanta will host TechExpo 2026, then the show will be in Denver for the foreseeable future.
New book chronicles the dawn of streaming and cable's dive into digital
46:23||Season 5Craig Leddy, a long-time industry journalist and Light Reading contributor, joins the podcast to discuss his new book: 'Fast Forward: The Birth of Video Streaming, Media's Wild Child'.
COO Rocco Laurenzano on the 'GFiber way'
37:09||Season 5Amid GFiber's ongoing network expansions, the company's COO, Rocco Laurenzano, digs into the company's approach to prioritizing projects and allocating resources. 'The real killer of productivity are half-done projects,' he says.