Broadband Pulse

Zayo's Bill Long sounds off on the middle mile

In this latest episode of the Broadband Pulse podcast, we talk to Bill Long, Zayo's chief product officer. Long leads the company's overall product strategy, financials, and roadmap.
In this episode, we discuss the importance of the middle-mile fiber network. Zayo has been an advocate for middle-mile networks. The provider is set to receive $92.8 million through the NTIA’s middle-mile program for three separate middle-mile projects touching eight states.
It was recently contracted by the State of Nevada to lead a $153 million open-access fiber network targeting underserved locations throughout rural parts of the state. It also won a $27.8 million funding grant from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to expand middle-mile infrastructure and deliver equitable Internet access across Dallas County, Texas.
 

Broadband Forum celebrates 20 years of TR-69 standard and industry innovation

The Broadband Forum celebrated a milestone this year: the twentieth anniversary of the TR-069 standard. Introduced in 2004, TR-069, known as CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP), provided service providers an interface for the remote configuration and management of user devices. TR-069 has streamlined service provisioning and reduced operational expenditures for ISPs. 
Now, TR-369/User Services Platform (USP), which builds on the TR-069 blueprint, has become the new device management.
In this latest Broadband Pulse podcast, we talked to two key members of the Broadband Forum about what's next, including: 
Craig Thomas, CEO of Broadband Forum
Jason Walls, QA Cafe, Broadband User Services Work Area Co-Director at Broadband Forum
 

MEF's CTO Pascal Menezes takes on the IP service automation opportunity

In this first episode of Lightwave+BTR's podcast series, The Broadband Pulse, we talked with MEF's CTO, Pascal Menezes, about the organization's goals for this year and into 2025.
MEF's big focus in 2024 is helping service providers enhance their Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) offerings. As MEF sees it, NaaS combines on-demand connectivity, application assurance, cybersecurity, and multi-cloud-based services delivered across a standards-based automated ecosystem of partners. It recently announced a joint initiative with the TM Forum aimed at aligning their respective API and product and service models.  
Listen to this episode to hear from Pascal as he addresses these new networking trends while providing a sneak peek at the Global NaaS Event (GNE) event coming this fall. 
Pascal Menezes, CTO at MEF, is a seasoned expert with a laser focus on cutting-edge technologies. His areas of expertise encompass SD-WAN, SASE, cloud-scale architectures, real-time media networks, SDN, NFV, and LSO. With a decade at Microsoft Skype for Business Global Carrier Group, and a track record of success in five startups, Pascal has earned global thought leadership awards, presented at renowned events, contributed to industry standards in the IETF, MEF, and Broadband Forum (MPLS), holds 30+ patents. Pascal hosts MEF's Executives at the Edge podcast. Get access to the 2024 MEF State of the Industry Report on SASE here.

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