Light Reading Podcasts

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.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner is covering #CES2020 this week and on his last day in town, we caught him just in time to get a recap of the much-hyped Quibi keynote and some thoughts on how over-the-air TV look and behave a lot differently in the future.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner interviews Danielle Cassagnol, the senior manager of industry communications for the Consumer Technology Association. Light Reading tends to focus on telecom-related developments but Cassagnol helps us see the bigger picture by providing an update on what's growing and gaining momentum across #CES2020 and the consumer electronics landscape. Not surprisingly, 5G and AI are major discussion points as devices not only get smarter but blend in more to connectivity-related services to offer more features and flexibility.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner is covering #CES2020 this week and he's got the scoop on the latest move by TiVo to making streaming video viewing easier via yet another new device you need to plug in to your TV. Baumgartner and Light Reading's Phil Harvey also discuss Amazon's plans to offer a streaming platform for cable operators, telcos and other types of video service providers as a way of getting more consumers to use it as the entry point before they wade into a stormy sea of entertainment choices.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner and Kelsey Ziser join Phil Harvey to discuss Jeff's coverage plans at CES 2020, new SVoD services launching this year, the challenges service providers have when partnering with online video giants, and the best cold remedies for Phil's persistent sniffles.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nuage Networks CEO Sunil Khandekar returns to the pod to debrief Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Mitch Wagner about developments that will influence SD-WAN in the new year. These include increased opportunities for service providers as enterprises move from DIY to managed services and SD-WAN's transition from a cost-savings tool to the foundation for digital transformation. There's also some discussion of the Secure Access Service Edge -- SASE -- and its potential to replace SD-WAN. Finally, Kelsey and Mitch nerd out on coffee.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, recorded in October, Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey are joined by Samir El Rashidy, the director of enterprise services at Orange Business Services. The Light Reading podcast has covered Orange Business Services (OBS) before -- in late July we interviewed John Isch about the carrier's SD-WAN services. This podcast episode picks up from that earlier discussion and gets deeper into enterprise services. El Rashidy discusses the OBS approach to Multisourcing Service Integration (MSI) and talks about how OBS positions itself to help enterprises choose the right network services and technology suppliers. Ziser, Harvey and El Rashidy also discuss the challenges and opportunities for Orange Business Services as it acts as both a service provider and a service integrator. El Rashidy cites examples of big multinational enterprise customers like Sony and Siemens and elaborates on how the OBS MSI approach is working for them.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Light Reading's Mitch Wagner has two big news interviews and a summary report from the Cisco Systems press conference in San Francisco this week. Skip right ahead to the 03:40 mark for the coverage. The Cisco news event featured some major new networking portfolio announcements. The networking giant launched its new Silicon One chip, an entirely new family of routers, some new enhanced operating system software, and new optical components to help service providers and webscale companies bring down the cost of moving bits around the Internet.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Crossover Pod Alert! Following Light Reading's 2020 Vision Executive Summit at the Ritz Carlton in Vienna, Austria, Telecoms.com's Editorial Director Scott Bicheno joins Light Reading's Iain Morris and Phil Harvey for a wine-fueled recap of one of the most exclusive gatherings of senior global executives from the communications networking sector. Iain discusses recent the restructuring and corporate realignment activities of Orange, Telefonica and MTS. Scott muses about how dangerous (and smart) it is for telcos to collaborate with cloud providers at the edge. Before they get going, Phil chips in with some thoughts on why the perception of telcos owning media companies has changed so much in the past 12 months.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cisco's Collaboration Vision: Cisco collaboration EVP & GM Amy Chang and Light Reading's Mitch Wagner share stories about videoconferencing facepalms, and Chang then discusses Cisco's collaboration vision.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Network convergence was a primary theme at Cable Congress and Cable-Next Gen Europe in Berlin as cable operators in the region push ahead with plans to stitch together fixed, wireless and mobile networks into one common service platform. Cable operators in Europe are well ahead of their North American counterparts with regarding new distributed access architectures and they are showing very little interest in a Generic Access Platform initiative for standardized nodes that is getting underway in the US.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nuage Networks CEO Sunil Khandekar joins Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser to discuss the value of having standards for an emerging market like SD-WAN and how Nuage is working with organizations like MEF to make carrier-offered SD-WAN a more valuable service.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser interview Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim about what's next for Juniper. The conversation covered Juniper's big bet on 400G, how the vendor can stand out in the market against competitors like Arista and Cisco, and where Juniper's next wave of telecom momentum will come from.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a special news podcast, Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner, Dan Jones and Phil Harvey gather around the microphones to talk about the launch of HBO Max. AT&T and WarnerMedia expect to have 50 million (HBO and) HBO Max subscribers in the US in about five years. But how will the carrier navigate the choppy waters of negotiating with HBO's pay-TV provider distributors while simultaneously trying to put them out of business? Once we discuss that elephant-in-the-room service provider angle, we put our consumer hats on and discuss how we consume HBO services currently, and what questions we hope to have answered by the time HBO Max launches. We're probably not like other consumers in that it doesn't take much to confuse all three of us at once, but please do listen because you might have a lot of the same questions in your home.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been a week since we left California and wrapped up at MWC Los Angeles 2019. What did our analyst colleagues and fellow editors think of all the big booths, meetings and crowded corridors? In this episode, Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey dig through the podcast studio voicemail to listen to insights from Ovum's Daryl Schoolar and Mike Sapien, Heavy Reading's Jennifer Clarke and Light Reading's Mike Dano. To kick things off, Phil recalls his meeting with the GSMA's Ana Tavares Lattibeaudiere. She seemed to connect the dots between a lot of carrier businesses heading from device-driven transactions to connectivity-fed managed services. Then, as expected, Phil griped about trade show coffee and heaped praise on the local gin distillery. As each of Phil's and Kelsey's colleagues called in, they were asked to relay their favorite thing about the show, their least favorite thing and to name at least one good meal or beverage they consumed while in town. Listen and learn which OSS/BSS category suddenly seems hot again, which analyst is hot on the trail of IoT developments and which carrier's cocktail hour punch tasted the worst.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The ghosts, geeks and goblins of telecom tech come out to play in this very foolish and ghoulish episode of the Light Reading Podcast. Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and her spooky pals -- Light Reading behead-itor Phil Harvey and US Ignite firestarter Mari Silbey -- discuss some of the technologies that still haunt them to this day. Phil opines on why consumers were so scared of the Facebook phone. Kelsey is creeped out all over again by Google Glass. Mari throws her hands up to the heavens and asks, "Why, WiMax, Why?!!" We dance all over the graves of a few other tech ideas and products, too. (R.I.P. home networking before the cloud.) And Mari shares a surprising bit of news about a videophone network that may actually be back from the dead. Happy Halloween, you silly souls.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Layne Levine, president of the Enterprise & Wholesale business unit at Windstream, isn't confused about SD-WAN's potential. "This is the next big technology transformation in the communications world and I think it's going to completely upend some companies' business models," he told Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser. Listen to the entire interview here and check out the show notes on www.lightreading.com.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will Barkis leads the smart cities portfolio at Orange Silicon Valley's innovation lab and he spoke to Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey about the potential and privacy worries surrounding computer vision and what happens when municipalities begin using AI to do things like facial recognition. Also, Barkis discusses what market advantage service providers might have when pursuing smart cities opportunities.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading Editors Ray Le Maistre and Mike Dano discuss the key takeaways from Light Reading's 5G Transport & the Edge event in New York City. This is a really short interview, only 5 minutes, recorded just after the sessions wrapped up on Thursday, Oct. 10. Enjoy!Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Alan Breznick, Jeff Baumgartner and Phil Harveydiscuss the stuff they've presented, seen and overheard at SCTE's Cable-Tec Expo 2019 in New Orleans last week. This podcast, recorded on Thursday, Oct. 3, is a tad noisy because it was recorded right smack in the middle of the Expo floor, following Jeff's panel during the Smart Cities track. The trio discusses cable's relationship to 5G, the impact of virtualization on cable networks and the mystery behind why giant venues like convention centers think that boiling coffee is a good idea.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Optiva CEO Danielle Royston is a hellraiser. But she's also a savvy CEO, taking Optiva -- formerly Redknee, a troubled BSS provider -- and giving it a new focus. Her message to service providers is that they should really examine how and where they can embrace the public cloud. In order to help right the ship at Optiva, Royston partnered with Google Cloud and now offers Optiva customers a BSS solution that she claims is 10 times the speed and scale at one-tenth the cost of Oracle databases. "The advantages of moving to the public cloud -- the cost savings, namely, I think, is the biggest -- are too big to ignore; it's too big to not do it. [Telcos need] to work through their fears… I think the guys who figure out how to move to public cloud are going to be the winners in the end," Royston told Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the lead up to Light Reading's 5G Transport & the Edge event in NY on Oct. 10, Not-Phil Harvey (aka Kelsey Ziser) and Mike Dano discuss their favorite types of pizza plus the importance of the transport network and traffic routing to support telcos' efforts around edge computing.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With SCTE kicking off in New Orleans -- and talk of 5G heating up with cable operators -- it's a great time to look back and go over what 5G looks like for consumers and what analysts really expect from 5G in the next 5 years. In this interview, Ovum Chief Analyst Ed Barton talks with Light Reading's Editor-in-Chief Ray Le Maistre about some of the findings from his report, "5G: Key Opportunities and Challenges in Consumer and Entertainment." The report looks at what 5G promises, and what it will deliver, during the next five years.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's event series on network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) stopped in Dallas this time around. As usual, we talked about the opportunities and obstacles facing telecom service providers as they move more network functions to the cloud and aim to more easily create new products and services, shorten innovation cycles and bring in new revenue. On Sept. 19, just before happy hour, Light Reading editors Mitch Wagner, Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey gathered to empty their notebooks and recap the event in an echoey, unused conference room at the Dallas Marriott Las Colinas. They discussed AT&T's presentation about edge computing and how the technology, driven by the arrival of 5G and the proliferation of connected devices, is going to be a critical proving ground for NFV, SDN and new telecom infrastructure. The trio also recapped the Women in Comms program, where we were reminded how technologies like 5G can be a catalyst and an obstacle to women in tech and telecom companies. Finally, the podcast wrapped up with some observations about how the carriers themselves have changed in the way they sell to enterprises. And, yes, there were some well-placed complaints about the conference coffee, as you might expect with this crew.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're packing our bags for Dallas, for our cleverly named Network Virtualization and SDN Americas conference, and Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser talks with host Mitch Wagner about the current state of software-defined networking. Also: Kelsey explains why she always wants to talk about protein bars.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Taking a service provider lens to Apple's announcement of the iPhone 11, Apple TV+ and more, with Light Reading editors Mitch Wagner, Jeff Baumgartner and Mike Dano. Will the iPhone 11 be a big business opportunity for carriers? Will Apple TV+ be able to compete in a crowded OTT market? And what's with the upcoming Apple TV+ sci-fi series "See" – civilization has collapsed because everybody is blind, so why do they all have fabulous hair?Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ciena CEO Gary Smith and Light Reading's Phil Harvey discuss the optical transport & network software firm's webscale business demand, its Blue Planet software growth, the stock market reactions to its forecasts, as well as competitive concerns about Cisco and Huawei.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Orange Silicon Valley CEO Mireille Helou talks to Light Reading's Mitch Wagner about how she intends to help bring California innovation to the European service provider and its customers around the world. Helou said Orange SV is charged with tracking innovation, and we talk what that means, how Orange measures its results and creates value for its business.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is the third in our series of podcasts covering the state of SD-WAN. Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey (with research help from Ovum and Heavy Reading) are looking at several issues influencing the overall growth and progress of the SD-WAN market for service providers. Please check out the previous episodes in this series, including the interview with SD-WAN expert, John Isch from Orange Business Services.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Raghuram "Raghu" Velega, VP of big data and analytics at Jio in India, provides an update on how that carrier's growth and scale has created some unique data challenges and competitive opportunities. Jio and Guavus announced a partnership this week to help take the 4 to 5 petabytes of data per day that carrier generates into some context, giving it a better understanding of its network needs and customer demands.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Mitch Wagner talks with SES CEO JP Hemingway about his company's sky-high ambitions. SES's satellite network provides connectivity for mobile operators (who use the service for backhaul and enterprise VPN); maritime and aviation companies; and government customers (who use SES for drone surveillance, environmental controls). SES wants network operators to be able to connect to its satellite networks using existing management and orchestration tools, so it's implementing the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) on Microsoft Azure, with the assistance of Amdocs. Listen up to find out why and what's at stake.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's going on with over-the-top TV (and why are all the names so confusing)? Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner, Alan Breznick and Kelsey Ziser join Phil Harvey to dig in and decode the silliness. In segment one, we recap what we TV services we all buy at home to make a larger point about how fragmented the market is becoming. In segment two, we discuss all the names for TV and video services that AT&T has trademarked over the years -- and we look back in amusement on AT&T's Mlife campaign from nearly 20 years ago. Segment three concludes with Jeff and Alan doing some public service broadcasting and explaining the differences between HBO, HBO Now, HBO Go and HBO Max. Then Kelsey tries her own version of a Mlife-style voiceover touting today's OTT TV services and as many old AT&T trademarks as she can remember. Yes, it's exactly as silly as it sounds. Enjoy!Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Isch from Orange Business Services joins Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser to talk all things SD-WAN. He's not just waving his arms and doing the usual marketing stuff, though. Isch discusses examples of specific deployments at companies you've heard of and how each one's network, preferences and technology choices influenced the service that Orange provided. We'll get back to discussing market trends and forecasts in a later podcast. For now, here's a real service provider with real customers talking about the market realities of SD-WAN. Enjoy!Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence may help service providers speed up service provisioning, provide better network performance and more comprehensive security. But none of that matters if the models used in research labs don't work in the real work, according to researcher Nick Feamster. Feamster is just starting his new gig as director of the Center for Data and Computing (CDAC) at the University of Chicago. He was previously a professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University. One of his jobs now is to find out what kinds of machine learning and data science can be applied in real networks today, at scale. In this podcast, Feamster speaks with Light Reading's Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser about his upcoming work with CDAC, his observations on how machine learning can help telcos now and where we, as consumers, might see a difference when networks become more intelligent.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who is the satellite company that's suddenly in the middle of the Sprint/T-Mobile merger discussions? Light Reading editors Mike Dano and Jeff Baumgartner join hosts Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser to discuss the past, present and future of Dish Network, the 22-year-old, $15 billion company that said it will build a 5G network and become a viable competitor to AT&T and Verizon.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How many SD-WAN vendors are there, anyway? In this week's podcast, Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser discusses the ever-evolving world of SD-WAN. We discuss why there are so many vendors, what might happen if the market consolidates and whether some of the bigger acquisitions in the space by Cisco and VMware have started to pay off. The conversation also veers down the road of what SD-WAN is supposed to be replacing (MPLS) and whether that initial, straightforward goal has been subsumed into something larger and infinitely more complex. Does the white glove version of an SD-WAN service come with its own butler? We'll talk about that, and all things SD-WAN on this episode.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AT&T lost video and broadband subscribers during its second quarter, but the telco still reported revenue and profit forecasts in line with Wall Street's expectations. Indeed, the carrier is making truckloads of money every quarter, but its ability to pinpoint where the culture is going is not as sharp as its competitors. In this quick, five-minute podcast, Light Reading's Alan Breznick talks about what AT&T announced and why it's not showing more growth in video and broadband, at a time when there is so much activity and interest in both areas. Our producer is on vacation this week, so we kept this recording really short and didn't do any fancy editing. We'll be back with another full-strength Light Reading podcast episode next week.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

5G is here, but where's it going? That's the simple and surprisingly nuanced question that Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre and Ovum's Dario Talmesio help answer in this podcast. Le Maistre is Light Reading's Editor-in-Chief and Talmesio is the principal analyst and practice leader for 5G Accelerator and European TMT Research at research house Ovum. The role of the network operator in the 5G world will suddenly seem very clear once you hear this interview.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ellen Rubin joins the Light Reading podcast to discuss edge computing and the new need for data management in more places as the world goes from static storage to mobile, multicloud madness.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cities are huge consumers of telecom connectivity and services but the path to becoming "smart" cities looks a lot different now than it did even a year ago. US Ignite's Mari Silbey joins Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey to help dig into two areas: data analytics and infrastructure sharing. Both topics are on the minds of city leaders and telecom providers as cities work to become more connected and better places to live, work and play.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bill Walker, former senior director of strategy & advancement at CenturyLink, joins the podcast to offer his thoughts on what telcos are good at, what needs to change in telco culture and what kinds of companies he sees becoming bigger competitors to the traditional network operators. As a former engineer at Oracle and Sun Microsystems, Bill has a background in the IT side of things and understands the challenges of working in a big telco. Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser and Phil Harvey interview Bill about tech stuff and we get some bowling tips, too.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Ray, Kelsey and Phil talk about why so many believe that innovation at The Edge will unlock a lot of promises of next-generation networks. It will be a challenge -- getting those boundaries between the physical and digital worlds to blur will require some things that telcos can do well and some things they'll need a lot of help to accomplish.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Mike Dano joins the podcast to discuss how are all the major US telcos handling 5G pricing, which carriers seem to have the most practical pricing strategies so far, and how what we pay for 5G services could change over time.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser joins the podcast to discuss some of the insights and helpful advice she's heard while doing interviews for Light Reading's Women In Comms content series. Light Reading's Women In Comms page, in case you haven't been watching, includes frequent interviews and articles by Ziser, as well as the weekly WiCipedia roundup of news items. WiCipedia, compiled by Eryn Leavens, has been running nearly non-stop for three years. Today we're talking about "tall poppy syndrome." Ziser defines this phenomena and shares what she's reported about how women stay out of their own (and one another's) way, while working to change people's inaccurate perceptions of their work, their motivations, etc., in the telecom industry. Before getting into the main topic, we quickly review what Kelsey's working on over at The 5G Exchange -- a vetted educational resource for industry info about 5G technologies, case studies, opinions and other resources.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What happened for telcos and cable operators to keep an eye on at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)? Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner and Phil Harvey sort it all out for you on the podcast. Apple took some big steps toward protecting the privacy of its users and distancing itself from Facebook, Google and other companies that sell ads using a consumer's personal details or device location. The company also started supporting home security cameras and routers with HomeKit, Apple's smart home platform. The new security feature caught our attention since Apple noted it would enable local devices to process video before sending it to the cloud for storage. Like mesh home WiFi and smart home management, it sounds like one of those things cablecos and telcos should have done years ago. While those companies watch Apple's moves interest, we wonder when they'll use their status as trusted utilities to really put consumers at ease with home networking, smart home setups, and cybersecurity. Is Apple really more trustworthy than a telco? The Light Reading Podcast is available on SoundCloud, Google Play, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Light Reading's Mitch Wagner and Phil Harvey conclude that the government's rhetoric around Huawei as a national security threat sure would sound more reassuring if someone, somewhere actually presented proof. They also discuss when to expect 5G's benefits to come to a neighborhood near you.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the US ramps its trade war with China, Google became one of several companies that said it would limit the software services it provides to Huawei. The aftershocks of that decision could be severe, said Daniel Gleeson, Principal Analyst, Consumer Technology at Ovum. In this podcast episode, recorded May 21, Gleeson discusses Huawei's device business, which shipped about 207 million smartphones outside of China last year. The loss of support from Google for its Android OS and apps means that Huawei "effectively means that it cannot sell any new [Android OS-based] handsets outside of China." That puts a $25 billion business at risk and it had implications for carriers in the US and Europe launching 5G services, too.Sign up today for the Light Reading newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.