Episodes

  • Episode 46 - Autonomous Networks and Agentic AI, with Nokia

    Episode 46 - Autonomous Networks and Agentic AI, with Nokia
    Feb 14 2025
    Not one but two guests this week, representing insights from Nokia's Digital Operations and AI teams - Deepa Ramachandran, Head of Portfolio Management for Nokia Digital Operations, and Henrietta Katajakoski, from AI & Analytics marketing. They both draw on plenty of time spent on real projects and customer discussions. Topics covered include Autonomous Networks, the Network Autonomy Chasm, Digital Twins, the size and impact of Agentic AI, and Nokia projects in North America and China.

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    48 mins
  • Episode 45 - AWS in Telecom

    Episode 45 - AWS in Telecom
    Feb 2 2025
    AWS has been the most successful of the hyperscalers in convincing telcos to put mission-critical workloads onto public cloud. But it's taken a decade. In this episode, AWS' Chief Technologist for Telco, Ishwar Parulkar, explains the strategy behind AWS's significant impact and growing presence in telecom. With Patrick Kelly and Robert Curran.

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    26 mins
  • Episode 44 - The AI-RAN Alliance with Alex Jinsung Choi

    Episode 44 - The AI-RAN Alliance with Alex Jinsung Choi
    Jan 27 2025
    AI - in the form of predictive models - has been part of the radio access network already for quite a few years. So what does the AI-RAN Alliance consortium bring that's new? And how has it progressed in the year since it was publicly announced. Just ahead of MWC2025, Patrick and Robert revisit the goals and work of the AI-RAN Alliance with its Chair, Dr Alex Jinsung Choi.

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    21 mins
  • Episode 43 - Open RAN Reality Check with Mavenir CEO Pardeep Kohli

    Episode 43 - Open RAN Reality Check with Mavenir CEO Pardeep Kohli
    Jan 9 2025
    In a discussion that is as candid as it is well-informed, the CEO and President of Mavenir, Pardeep Kohli, shares his perspectives on the prospects for Open RAN, and Mavenir's strategies for growth in a challenging market. It's a frank and honest account of what it will truly take for operators - and the wider industry to achieve the transformative goals that open, disaggregated and cloudified networks make possible. the With Robert Curran and Patrick Kelly.

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    40 mins
  • Episode 42: Transforming Test from Lab to Live

    Episode 42: Transforming Test from Lab to Live
    Dec 30 2024
    In this episode, we explore how the testing of networks has evolved to cope with rising complexity, new technologies, disaggregation, the acceleration of growth in networks, and fundamental changes in how telecom networks are used. We zero in on the re-framing of test from siloed function to a continuous process spanning vendor supply chains, traditional telco in-house test, through to live networks - a concept called "lab-to-live". Francis and Robert talk with Anil Kollipara, VP of Product Management for Test Automation at Spirent, one of the world's oldest established network test companies.

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    40 mins
  • Episode 41 - Christmas Episode: AWS, Mavenir, Open RAN

    Episode 41 - Christmas Episode: AWS, Mavenir, Open RAN
    Dec 20 2024

    In the final episode of 2024, Robert and Patrick swap notes from some major vendor events - AWS Re:invent, Mavenir's analyst day, Fyuz plus Telecom TV's Great Telco Debate.


    Merry Christmas, one and all!


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    34 mins
  • Episode 40 - NaaS, APIs, B2B and Telco/Techco with Divesh Gupta, Console Connect

    Episode 40 - NaaS, APIs, B2B and Telco/Techco with Divesh Gupta, Console Connect
    Dec 17 2024

    The network automation journey that global carrier PCCW has been on for the last 6 or 7 years is fascinating, as they describe the changes in the industry through the same period.

    In a highly enlightening episode, Divesh Gupta walks us through how they have embraced the concept of network APIs and network automation, the choices in OSS and BSS, partnership, as well as the kind of vision and leadership required to achieve transformational change. We also discuss work going on with the MEF and TM Forum.



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    42 mins
  • Episode 39: Open & Disaggregated Networks, with Fujitsu's Greg Manganello

    Episode 39: Open & Disaggregated Networks, with Fujitsu's Greg Manganello
    Dec 7 2024

    Robert and Grant are joined by Fujitsu's Greg Manganello to explore the drivers behind, and implications of, open and disaggregated networks.

    Along the way we discuss multiple industry interpretations of "open", buyer personas, the tactics of Big Telecom on open RAN, and Greg's "cocktail party' trick for remembering the difference between real-time and non-real-time RICs...


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    43 mins