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This feed is Light Reading's main podcast feed for "The Light Reading Podcast," "The Divide," "The Notebook Dump," and "What's the Story?"
Light Reading provides daily news, analysis and insight for the global communications networking and services industry. The publication was founded in 2000 and, since July 2016, has been a part of Informa Tech, a division of Informa PLC. We're part of a big team providing specialist research, media, events and training for businesses and professionals working in technology.
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Omdia's Fernando Montenegro on the democratization of generative AI in cybersecurity
Fernando Montenegro, senior principal analyst with Omdia, joins the podcast to discuss recent security trends such as the increased use of AI for cybersecurity. Plus, he explains how the popularity of generative AI such as ChatGPT has led to the "democratization of the information that's locked inside those large language models into a broader population."
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The Divide: USTelecom's Jonathan Spalter on striving for universal connectivity
This episode features Jonathan Spalter, president and CEO of USTelecom. We discuss the Biden administration's goal of universal broadband connectivity and how the telecommunications industry is working to meet it witha mix of public and private funding, including the forthcoming $42.5 billion Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program.
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What's the Story? The Leading Lights Awards
Light Reading's Leading Lights Awards program is entering its 19th year, and the awards are now open for entries. In this podcast, Editors Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser discuss new categories and their advice for submitting a solid entry.
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The Notebook Dump: Banks, broadband, Big 5G
Light Reading editors Mike Dano, Nicole Ferraro, Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser discuss big topics from last week's Big 5G Event in Austin, including generative AI.
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Harmonic's Richard Rommes: How to Maximize Cable's PON Prospects
Richard Rommes, Harmonic's VP of Access Networks Solutions and Strategy, discusses the future of EPON and XGS-PON and how Harmonic's "Open ONU" solution can help cable operators mix and match DOCSIS and PON technologies in their HFC networks. #sponsored
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The Divide: Gigi Sohn on the FCC, dark money in politics and why public broadband matters
Gigi Sohn, President Biden's former nominee for FCC Commissioner, joins the podcast to discuss her nomination process, and what it says about dark money in politics and the industry at large. We also discuss what her most urgent goals would have been as FCC Commissioner, the state of the FCC's broadband map as it relates to the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, her concerns about the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) running dry, how she hopes to reframe the public broadband debate and much more.
*This conversation was recorded before President Biden nominated Anna Gomez to serve as FCC Commissioner on May 22.
The unedited audio transcript is available in the media player of this episode page.
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Customer Reviews
Easy way to Learn outside my core tech Area
I really have enjoyed this podcast since I found in late in 2020. I listen to the new ones and go back through the history.
I am in tech, but not not in the backbone networking. I find this really interesting, and have learned lot from this. If you have a broad tech background, this is easy to listen to and mostly understand,.