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1 week 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.
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1 month ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
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.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
urgentcomm.com | Phil Harvey |Robert 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.
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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.
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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.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
connectingafrica.com | Phil Harvey
Phil Harvey, Light Reading Editor-in-ChiefLegendary women's footballer, Asisat Oshoala, and Lara Dewar, chief marketing officer of the GSMA, join the Light Reading podcast to discuss tech literacy, the mobile usage gap, and how companies and governments can make more opportunities for girls and women in telecom and tech. Oshoala, who hails from Lagos, Nigeria, is one of the top players in Nigeria’s national soccer team history.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
lightreading.com | Kelsey Kusterer Ziser |Phil Harvey
At a GlanceWhy MetTel is building a space-based network for enterprise customers (01:28)Why MetTel chose to work with a LEO satellite provider (11:26)Using Starlink service during natural disasters such as hurricanes (20:08)MetTel now can offer space-based managed WAN services as an authorized Starlink reseller. The managed service provider is working with SpaceX's Starlink to deliver SD-WAN over satellite and provide additional network connectivity options for federal and commercial customers.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
lightreading.com | Kelsey Kusterer Ziser |Phil Harvey
In its research of 20 cities globally, research firm Opensignal found that locals spend more time on 4G and 5G networks than roamers. Sylwia Kechiche, senior director of Industry Analysis for Opensignal, joined the podcast to dive further into Opensignal's findings on the causes of network performance disparity between locals and roamers. "Price is quite often one of the main considerations when people think about roaming, but experience is becoming ever more important," said Kechiche.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
lightreading.com | Phil Harvey
Assorted news and notes from last week's MWC Las Vegas show, beginning with a company to watch and ending with a question about whether a show has gone from hot to uncomfortable. Like a wedding band on a fall weekend, last week's MWC Las Vegas keynote speakers played some familiar tunes and hit all the usual beats. The industry wants more of some things (spectrum) and less of others (regulation, oversight, taxes, employees).
