Light Reading Weekly #21
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Omdia's Jaimie Lenderman on how cable is speeding ahead on network upgrades
Speaking before a packed house at last week's Cable Next-Gen Technologies and Strategies event in Denver, Omdia analyst Jaimie Lenderman presented fresh data on how cable operators are pushing ahead with access network upgrades.
Cable broadband: A look forward... and a look (way, way) back
Last week's Cable Next-Gen Technologies and Strategies event was, as the title suggests, a definitive look forward. Many top engineers and execs in the industry convened in Denver to discuss what's on the horizon: distributed and virtualized access networks, DOCSIS 4.0 and the increased use of PON technologies in both greenfields and brownfields.
The Notebook Dump: T-Mobile to scrap 5G reliability ads
Jeff Baumgartner, Mike Dano, Nicole Ferraro and Phil Harvey discuss cable versus fiber, consumer broadband labels and potential roadblocks to BEAD program rollouts. The editors also discuss why T-Mobile will need to re-think its 5G advertising strategy and whether TikTok is now cooler than ever in The Notebook Dump for the week ending March 24.
Ciena's Steve Alexander: A terabit in the hand
Ciena CTO Steve Alexander recently joined the podcast to discuss the company's announcement of WaveLogic 6, a 1.6 Tbit/s coherent optical technology that will power long-haul, metro and data center connections starting around the middle of next year.?