Episodes

Spirent Communications’ CTO, Dave Larson, explores how telecom providers are overcoming the technical debt associated with tightly integrated virtual private networks to leverage the cloud’s virtualized framework. Subscribe on Your Favorite Podcast Platform Apple Spotify Pandora YouTube RSS Feed In this Executives at the Edge podcast episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Dave Larson of Spirent Communications: What do public clouds lack that telco operators still nee...

Industry expert Sunil Khandekar highlights SD-WAN’s central role in the shift from bottom-up to top-down software-defined networking. He discusses how service providers can have their automation cake and secure it too by embracing SASE, SSE, and Zero Trust industry standards. In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Sunil Khandekar, founder of Nuage Networks: What is SD-WAN’s evolving value, from both a business and technical perspective? ...

Microsoft’s VP of 5G Strategy, Shawn Hakl, discusses how 5G’s inherently cloud-friendly architecture excels opportunities to skyrocket the efficiency and effectiveness of the network with finely tailored network slices—including private 5G networks and hybrid clouds with private mobile edge compute solutions. Subscribe on Your Favorite Podcast Platform Apple Spotify Pandora YouTube RSS Feed In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Shawn Ha...

Sparkle’s SVP, Daniele Mancuso, highlights how a company that built submarine cables has transformed to enable IoT connectivity by bundling LSO Sonata underlays with a highly intelligent overlay that classifies applications within an intelligent WAN—enabling a new business model, new revenue streams, and clear use cases on land and sea. Subscribe on Your Favorite Podcast Platform Apple Spotify Pandora YouTube RSS Feed In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these t...

Colt Technology Services’ Vice President, Mirko Voltolini, discusses how MEF LSO APIs provide the common language needed for both inter-provider automation within the service provider ecosystem, as well as intra-provider connectivity within the enterprise stack. What does it take to shift the industry to an automation-first approach? Subscribe on Your Favorite Podcast Platform Apple Spotify Pandora YouTube RSS Feed In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topi...

Blue Planet’s Vice President, Kailem Anderson, highlights the critical role of intelligent automation in the transition to 5G in multi-vendor, multi-layer, service provider networks as they become more dynamic, and workloads are distributed further out to the edge. With multiple cloud applications from different vendors being utilized across networks, is there such a thing as a single source of truth? Subscribe on Your Favorite Podcast Platform Apple Spotify Pandora YouTube RSS Feed In this Ex...

Orange Business’ Vice President, Franck Morales, discusses the intricacies of orchestrating true digital transformation in which human and AI users perform all tasks in the cloud. Businesses need a defined infrastructure strategy that delivers a cloud platform capable of hyperscaling their federated resources. Can today’s service providers be the providers of all? Subscribe on Your Favorite Podcast Platform Apple Spotify Pandora YouTube RSS Feed In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pas...

VMware’s Vice President, Craig Connors, discusses the evolution of Secure Service Edge (SSE), on one side and SASE on the other, with SD-WAN as the foundation. As workers stay remote, applications on distributed devices move from centralized locations to the edge, and the world goes cloud native, how do we securely connect users and devices running many applications in many different locations? What is the destination for SASE? Craig highlights opportunities for service providers as networking v...

Cisco’s Vice President, JL Valente, discusses the challenges IT groups face to support work from anywhere and the greater distribution of applications. Users need to connect to applications and get the best user experience from anywhere they work and from any device. How has networking and particularly SD-WAN evolved to address these requirements and support hybrid, secure multi-cloud environments? Subscribe on Your Favorite Podcast Platform Apple Spotify Pandora YouTube RSS Feed In this Execu...

Join host and Mplify CTO, Pascal Menezes, as he explores thought-provoking perspectives from the leaders and changemakers who are propelling enterprise digital transformation forward. Each episode delves into leading-edge business insights from top network, cloud, and technology executives and industry analysts—leaving you with key takeaways to help grow your revenue and bring solutions to market faster. Subscribe on Your Favorite Podcast Platform Apple Spotify Pandora YouTube RSS Feed Executi...