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Analyst interview: Omdia's Pablo Tomasi on what's hot in IoT Feb 29, 2020

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Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was canceled, but we still have lots of MWC-related media to share. The analysts at Heavy Reading and Omdia (formerly Ovum) were nice enough to share their thoughts on the communications industry's hottest topics and companies. In this interview, Pablo Tomasi, senior analyst at Omdia, outlines the hot trends in telco IoT that he expects to talk about at MWC, including industrial IoT, private networks and more. Listen to the whole interview here, and watch the video portion on www.lightreading.com.

Analyst interview: Omdia's Maria Rua Aguete how 5G is changing live sports and gaming Feb 20, 2020

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Mobile World Congress in Barcelona isn't happening next week. But the analysts at Heavy Reading and Omdia (formerly Ovum) are still tracking the communications industry's hottest topics and companies. In our scheduled coverage for MWC Barcelona, Light Reading's Editor-in-Chief Ray Le Maistre sat down Omdia analyst Maria Rua Aguete to discuss new developments in the media and entertainment market. She said that there's some potential for mobile operators to generate new revenues from 5G-based live sports services and partnerships between the media giants and the telcos. The number of 5G-capable smartphones will jump from 29 million at the end of 2019 to 231 million a the end of this year, Aguete said. A huge portion of 5G phones will be AI-enabled in the next five years, she said, and that means broadcasters will be able to deliver low latency streaming, gaming, AI and VR applications, and more, to fans inside stadiums and anywhere there is 5G connectivity. Listen to the whole interview here and watch the video portion on www.lightreading.com.

Analyst interview: Heavy Reading's Gabriel Brown on 5G market changes Feb 19, 2020

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Mobile World Congress in Barcelona isn't happening next week. But the analysts at Heavy Reading and Omdia (formerly Ovum) are still tracking the communications industry's hottest topics and companies. In our scheduled coverage for MWC Barcelona, Light Reading's Editor-in-Chief Ray Le Maistre sat down with Heavy Reading Principal Analyst Gabriel Brown to discuss the state of the 5G market. Brown said that scaling the technology to meet demand will be among the biggest challenges that network operators face as they roll out 5G services. Service providers around the world are keen to show that they can operate standalone 5G and that kind of network change "impacts devices, radios, core networks, transport and so forth. There's lots of moving parts," Brown explains. Listen to the whole interview here and watch the video portion on www.lightreading.com.

Analyst interview: Omdia's Dario Talmesio on the 5G core Feb 18, 2020

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Analyst interview: Heavy Reading's James Crawshaw on Industry X.0 Feb 17, 2020

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Windstream's Mike Frane & Scott Yelton: How Telcos are Transforming Managed Services Feb 06, 2020

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Scott Yelton and Mike Frane from Windstream Enterprise join Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser on the podcast to discuss how Windstream's approach to managed services, unified communications and SD-WAN continues to change as the enterprise workforce becomes more mobile. The Windstream execs explain how their company is revamping its communications and SD-WAN services portfolio and evolving from being a traditional telco to a true managed services provider.

MNJ Technologies EVP Ben Niernberg: Workplace Collaboration & SD-WAN Jan 28, 2020

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MNJ Technologies EVP Ben Niernberg joins the podcast to offer a managed service provider's view of workplace collaboration and SD-WAN, two hot markets where enterprise spending is up and where several different kinds of companies are competing. Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey get Niernberg's thoughts on SD-WAN consolidation, the differences between major SD-WAN vendors and why he thinks workplace collaboration seems like a perfect fit for social media giants like Facebook.

Cato Networks: Don't Call Us an SD-WAN Provider! Jan 24, 2020

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Cato used to be a leader in SD-WAN, but now it says it's not an SD-WAN company anymore. Instead, it's delivering a new kind of service -- Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) -- a category comprising SD-WAN and also security, delivered over the cloud. Dave Greenfield, secure network evangelist for Cato Networks, joins Light Reading editor Mitch Wagner to discuss what the transition means, why SD-WAN alone is no longer a fit for the industry, and whether gelato is better than Ben & Jerry's.

The Right Way to Fight Huawei Jan 20, 2020

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Light Reading editors Ray Le Maistre and Mike Dano join Phil Harvey for a discussion about whether the US government needs to fund 5G tech development to help create alternatives Huawei in the wireless equipment market. Has that ship already sailed? Is $1 billion the right amount (for everything)? The editors weigh in and consider Light Reading's recent coverage on the US government's attempts to fight Huawei, now that the Chinese vendor has become the largest supplier of telecom equipment in the world.

NTT CTO Ettienne Reinecke: 2020 Tech Trends Jan 16, 2020

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NTT's CTO Ettienne Reinecke joins the podcast to shine a light on the most disruptive tech trends he sees for enterprises in the coming year. Many of them are closely linked to a surge in computing capacity and tech development at the network's edge.

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