In Lightwave’s day three daily podcast for Fiber Connect 2025, we're breaking down the key announcements, presentations, and conversations at the Nashville show.

Some of the highlights of the day included:

• Frontier Communications’ Scott Mispagel Receives 2025 Connect the Unconnected Award
• FBA’s state broadband summit
• T-Mobile brings its Fiber Home Internet service
• Fiber Broadband Association previewed its ThoughtWaves Documentary
• Lightera’s new InvisiLight Home Fiber Kit

About the Podcast In the Lightwave Broadband Pulse podcast, we address the key issues affecting the optical and broadband industry segments. Join us every week for insights from industry leaders on these topics. Visit our website at www.lightwave.com and click on our podcast site at broadbandpulse.podbean.com/.

In the second Lightwave’s daily podcast for Fiber Connect 2025, we're breaking down the key announcements, presentations, and conversations at the Nashville show.

Some of the highlights of the day included:

• Economic Impact Underscores Importance of NTIA BEAD Program
• Nokia's co-existence solution for 10G, 25G, and 50G PON
• The marriage of fiber and AI
• Enhancing middle mile networks
• Ting emphasizes community-centric approach to delivering broadband

About the Podcast In the Lightwave Broadband Pulse podcast, we address the key issues affecting the optical and broadband industry segments. Join us every week for insights from industry leaders on these topics. Visit our website at www.lightwave.com and click on our podcast site at broadbandpulse.podbean.com/.

In the first episode Lightwave’s daily podcast for Fiber Connect 2025, we're breaking down the key announcements, presentations, and conversations at the Nashville show.

Some of the highlights of the day included:

• Keynote speeches from Sasktel, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn and Ting Internet
• Sean Buckley’s hosting of the Tribal Broadband: Key Considerations and Expectations Creating the Framework for Innovation and Enhanced Connectivity panel
• MDU products: We feature new products from AirTies, Harmonic and Vecima
• BEAD—How industry groups, including the Fiber Broadband Association, are asking the Trump administration to end its delay with BEAD funding
• Funding—Ripple Fiber secured $250 million in new funding

About the Podcast In the Lightwave Broadband Pulse podcast, we address the key issues affecting the optical and broadband industry segments. Join us every week for insights from industry leaders on these topics. Visit our website at www.lightwave.com and click on our podcast site at broadbandpulse.podbean.com/.

In this new Broadband Pulse podcast, Lightwave editor Sean Buckley talked to David Zumwalt, President and CEO of WISPA.

During this episode, Zumwalt addressed how the federal government could simplify the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program.

He also addressed the FCC's move to pull to ban all bulk billing agreements in multi-tenant environments (MTEs).

About the Podcast In the Lightwave+BTR Broadband Pulse podcast, we address the key issues affecting the optical and broadband industry segments. Join us every week for insights from industry leaders on these topics. Visit our website at www.lightwave.com and click on our podcast site at www.broadbandpulse.podbean.com/.

In Broadband Pulse podcast's special Memorial Day holiday edition, we’re rounding up new broadband builds from various providers over the past week.

We’re tracking new broadband deployments from altafiber, Bluepeak, Comcast, Fidium, GoNetspeed, IdeaTek, Kinetic and Stellar Broadband.

We also highlight two key broadband developments made over the past week that will likely alter the competitive landscape in broadband: AT&T's move to acquire Lumen's Mass Markets fiber business and Charter and Cox's merger plans.

About the Podcast In the Lightwave+BTR Broadband Pulse podcast, we address the key issues affecting the optical and broadband industry segments. Join us every week for insights from industry leaders on these topics. Visit our website at www.lightwave.com and click on our podcast site at www.broadbandpulse.podbean.com/.

In this episode of the Broadband Pulse podcast, host Sean Buckley, editor in chief of Lightwave and BTR, talked to Sean Baillie, SVP of Carrier, Channel and Hyperscale for Consolidated Communications about new wholesale opportunities for the data center services market.

As data center connectivity demands rise due to AI's emergence, Consolidated has responded by expanding its platform and delivering high-capacity network options.

Consolidated is expanding its fiber network across major data center hubs. Offering a platform that delivers Ethernet and optical wavelengths, Consolidated’s fiber footprint serves data centers across the Upper Midwest, Texas, Northern California and its newest unique route connecting Montreal and Boston.

About the Podcast In the Lightwave+BTR Broadband Pulse podcast, we address the key issues affecting the optical and broadband industry segments. Join us every week for insights from industry leaders on these topics. Visit our website at www.lightwave.com and click on our podcast site at www.broadbandpulse.podbean.com/.

In this episode of the Broadband Pulse podcast, we talked with Chris Bonavita, VP of strategy and technology adoption for GTT, about the provider's vision to simplify enterprise customers’ consumption of managed services.

Last September, GTT launched GTT Envision, a global technology platform for connecting, orchestrating, virtualizing, and automating enterprise networks. Built on its network backbone, GTT Envision enables enterprises to solve complex networking and security challenges by simplifying the orchestration and management of global security, cloud, and networking solutions.

The GTT Envision platform combines the technology of EnvisionCORE and EnvisionEDGE to enable the virtual deployment of orchestrated network functions anywhere. This is managed, customized, and controlled through a single digital experience with EnvisionDX.

Here's a timeline of the interview's key moments:

Opening | 0.00

Host introduction of guests | 0:29

GTT’s outlook and priorities for 2025 | 0:52

GTT Envision’s elements | 2:37

5G wireless and satellite partnerships | 5:30

Regional reach | 8:10

Virtual options for Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) and MPLS | 9:20

Scaling SD-WAN | 11:03

Final thoughts/closing | 13:49

About the Podcast In the Lightwave+BTR Broadband Pulse podcast, we address the key issues affecting the optical and broadband industry segments. Join us every week for insights from industry leaders on these topics. Visit our website at www.lightwave.com and click on our podcast site at www.broadbandpulse.podbean.com/.

In this episode, we discussed how AI can be helpful to small to medium-sized businesses.

We feature Michael Caralis, Verizon's VP of business markets.

With over 20 years of experience driving success in multi-billion-dollar business units, he oversees Verizon’s inside and digital sales teams, ensuring effective implementation of company strategies and exceptional customer service. Additionally, he directs strategy, innovation, and sales operations across small and medium business sales channels.

Here's a timeline of the interview's key moments:

In this episode, we discussed how AI can be helpful to small to medium-sized businesses.

We feature Michael Caralis, Verizon's VP of business markets.

With over 20 years of experience driving success in multi-billion-dollar business units, he oversees Verizon’s inside and digital sales teams, ensuring effective implementation of company strategies and exceptional customer service.

Additionally, he directs strategy, innovation, and sales operations across small and medium business sales channels.

Here's a timeline of the interview's key moments:

Opening | 0.00

Host introduction of guests | 0:22

AI philosophy and plans around AI? | 1:02

AI benefits for your business customers? | 3:34

Verizon’s differentiation | 5:21

SMB’s key concerns implementing AI | 6:34

How SMBs can implement the Verizon AI platform | 8:36

Business vertical adoption | 10:59

Final thoughts/closing | 13:50

About the Podcast In the Lightwave+BTR Broadband Pulse podcast, we address the key issues affecting the optical and broadband industry segments. Join us every week for insights from industry leaders on these topics. Visit our website at www.lightwave.com and click on our podcast site at https://broadbandpulse.podbean.com/.