Scaling Up: Texas A&M's 5G Expansion with CommScope's Tech Expertise [Sponsored]

In this episode of The Five Nine Podcast, host James Careless dives into the future of 5G technology with special guests Matthew Almand, Chief Technology Officer at Texas A&M University System, and Thierry Chau, Vice President of Market Development at CommScope. Texas A&M University System is gear…

The Five Nine: What does Trump mean for telecom and tech policy?

This week, we’re taking a look at what the recent U.S. election means for telecom and tech policy in the years ahead.   Donald Trump just won a second term in the White House, but this go around could be very different from the first thanks in part to the entrance of new key characters - like El…

Zeroing in on Zero Trust and the cloud security landscape

This week, we’re venturing into the thorny territory that is cloud security.   In a newly issued security report, Google Cloud noted that new tools are lowering barriers to entry for malicious actors, and will make it easier for them to launch attacks in the year ahead. The report also noted that …

What happens to the network when AI moves to the edge? Featuring Zayo

This week, we’re returning to the intersection of AI and network transport.   We recently spoke with Lumen Technologies CEO Kate Johnson about how AI is impacting the network, demanding ever-larger pipes for data transport and training. That’s, of course, a boon for a company like Lumen, which has…

Here’s why private networks have become so popular

This week, we're getting a behind the scenes look at the private networks that power our ports and industrial campuses and keep us connected both underground, in the subway, and inside stadiums. As consumers, we're used to being connected to sprawling cellular networks from the likes of AT& T and V…

Have we been doing automation all wrong?

This week, we’re turning our attention to automation, and, more specifically, why exactly it hasn’t taken over yet.   Fully autonomous networks are something of a holy grail for telcos and data center operators alike. And yet, progress has been slow at best. As AT&T CTO Jeremy Legg said in June of…

What is data curation and why does it matter?

This week we’re going back down the AI rabbit hole, but we’re venturing down a new tunnel to talk about something called data curation.  Though AI is still a developing technology, it’s well enough known at this point that models are only as good as the data they’re trained on. But for enterprises…

Sorting fact from fiction when it comes to GenAI hype

This week, we’re diving into the wonderful world of artificial intelligence, taking an in-depth look at how to balance risks inherent in the technology with the high expectations generated by a now years-long hype cycle. And we couldn’t have a better guest to explore the topic with.   Christopher …

What happens when data centers come to town?

Description: This week, we’re putting data centers under the microscope – but not from the perspective you might think. As a B2B news outlet, we normally cover data centers from an insider viewpoint. But with AI helping drive a massive data center expansion effort, we wondered: “how do communities …

Building a new network for AI with Lumen

This week, we sat down with Lumen Technologies CEO Kate Johnson to delve into how AI is changing not just the network, but the culture inside telecom companies. Just a few years ago, you’d have been forgiven for viewing Lumen as something of a company on the outs. Though company executives talked …