Phil Harvey

Fort Worth

Editor-in-Chief at LightReading

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Articles

Cogent's CEO is ready to ride the next wave

2 weeks ago | lightreading.com | Phil Harvey

Cogent nabbed buried treasure when it acquired Sprint's fiber network from T-Mobile a couple of years ago. Can it work through falling prices, rising demand, a fresh set of competitors and still meet Wall Street's expectations? It's been a long year already, and Cogent has been busy raising hell and expectations in the wavelength services market.
Leading Lights Deadline Alert: Fri. June 27

3 weeks ago | lightreading.com | Phil Harvey

As of June 2, there are only 20 business days left until the final deadline (on June 27) for entries in The 21st Annual Leading Lights Awards. Don't miss the opportunity to showcase your company's innovative products and technology use cases by taking part in the communications industry's most prestigious awards program. If you don't have a completed entry in our system by the deadline, we can't consider your work. Pro-tip: Enter now and edit later.
Leading Lights Early Deadline Alert: Fri. May 16

1 month ago | lightreading.com | Phil Harvey

At a GlanceThe Leading Lights entry deadline for preferred pricing is Friday, May 16 at 9 PM PST. Submit your entry for Light Reading's 2025 Leading Lights Awards by 9 PM PST this Friday to take advantage of our preferred pricing. The Leading Lights contest categories have been revamped for 2025. Don't miss the opportunity to showcase your company's innovative products and technology use cases in the communications industry's most prestigious awards program.
Here's our Trump Tax tracker, where you can find the latest developments on telecom-related tariffs

2 months ago | lightreading.com | Phil Harvey |Kelsey Kusterer Ziser |Nicole Ferraro

Light Reading's list of significant policy, PR and personal twists and turns while the telecom industry debates tariff strategies and braces for the reality of the Trump Tax. This list was produced by real Americans, even though other lists have been very unfair and unkind to the industry for far too long. +1Phil Harvey, Kelsey Ziserand 1 moreUnderstanding the nuances of President Donald Trump's latest tariff announcement is about as easy as singing along with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.
Enter the 21st Annual Leading Lights Awards by June 27

2 months ago | lightreading.com | Phil Harvey

Light Reading's flagship awards program starts accepting entries on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. We look forward to hearing about how your company, services, products and colleagues have excelled in the past year and where that momentum will take the industry next. At a GlanceThe first day Light Reading's Leading Lights Awards program will begin accepting entries is Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Friday, June 27, 2025, is the Leading Lights entry deadline.
Here's where you can find our MWC 2025 coverage

Feb 28, 2025 | lightreading.com | Nicole Ferraro |Phil Harvey

We'll update this page frequently with all of Light Reading's live coverage from MWC 2025 in Barcelona. Light Reading editors and contributors are on the ground at MWC 2025 in Barcelona from March 3-6, 2025. Here's where you can find a running list of all of our coverage from the event, updated daily. We'll also include some standout stories from our sister sites inside the Informa TechTarget editorial network. Bookmark this page for easy access.
DoJ sues to block Juniper-HPE deal

Jan 31, 2025 | lightreading.com | Phil Harvey

"Kill Mist!!!!!!"According to a complaint filed this week by the US Department of Justice, that was the 2021 battle cry of a former HPE senior VP of sales in the Americas. The DoJ is suing to block HPE from getting its mitts on Mist's technology. Mist was bought by Juniper in 2019. The DoJ's argument against HPE buying Juniper in a $14 billion acquisition announced a year ago is that the deal would reduce choice in WLAN enterprise networking to two big vendors – HPE and Cisco.
Virginia to get world’s first commercial fusion power plant

Jan 9, 2025 | urgentcomm.com | Phil Harvey |Rob Lemos

The world’s first grid-scale commercial fusion power plant will be built at the James River Industrial Park in Chesterfield County, Virginia. That’s according to a Dec. 17 announcement from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, one of the largest private fusion companies in the country. The multibillion-dollar project is still nascent, however.
Eutelsat discloses 48-hour outage on its OneWeb LEO constellation

Jan 8, 2025 | urgentcomm.com | Phil Harvey

Eutelsat Group rang in the new year with an extensive outage that began on the last day of 2024 and lasted two days. Following requests for comment from Light Reading on December 31, Eutelsat finally replied this morning with the following:"Eutelsat experienced a temporary, 48-hour outage on its OneWeb Low Orbit service, commencing on 31st December 2024," the said. "The root cause was identified as a software issue within the ground segment.
Data center shifts

Dec 17, 2024 | lightreading.com | Phil Harvey

The need for more cloud computing capacity and future AI applications has been steadily driving more data center investments. Those investments led to a steady demand for fiber capacity between data centers and more optical networking innovation inside data centers. Here's how Light Reading covered this trend in 2024. In 2024, 5G may have plateaued, but the excitement around data center infrastructure grew considerably.