QuickFire | Why monetization is harder to find than love
Everybody pursues monetization, yet it appears to be increasingly elusive. Just as love can be. Yet, I argue that finding love in life is easier than finding monetization in wireless. Not everything...
27 Sep 202424min
QuickFire | What should 6G do for us? With Preston Marshall, Google
We still do not know what 6G is going to be, but it is the right time to decide what we want it to do. I talked to Preston Marshall, Director of Wireless Standards and Policy at Google Internet Evange...
20 Sep 202433min
QuickFire | The software developer view on telco APIs, with Magnus Olden, Domos
Magnus Olden, CTO at Domos, comes to telco API from an IT and Wi-Fi background and works to make API less complex, more easily usable and valuable to application developers. We talked about what app d...
13 Sep 202428min
Quick Fire | Open networks, open RAN, with John Baker, Mavenir
John Baker is the SVP of Business Development at Mavenir and one of the strongest proponents of Open RAN, since the very beginnings. We have talked about Open RAN in a previous Sparring Partners, and ...
7 Sep 202430min
QuickFire | Introduction: What Sparring Partners is about
This is an introduction to the podcast version of Sparring Partners from Monica Paolini, the podcast host on what Sparring Partners is about, its approach and its format. I talk about the reasons why ...
30 Aug 202413min
APIs: the good, the bad, the debatable, with Markus Kümmerle, Deutsche Telekom and CAMARA, and Daryl Schoolar at Recon Analytics
A conversation with Markus Kümmerle, Deutsche Telekom and CAMARA, Daryl Schoolar at Recon Analytics and Monica Paolini at Senza Fili on the value, benefits and challenges of APIs APIs have been around...
27 Juli 20241h 1min
AI-driven automation at AT&T, with Jennifer Yates
In this final Sparring Partners on AI and automation, we heard the operator's perspective from Jennifer Yates about AT&T's experience to date, ongoing activities, and future roadmap to adopt AI-driven...
20 Juli 20241h 2min
NETSCOUT: Rethinking AIOps – It’s all about the data, with Rick Fulwiler
In network operations, we are always looking for areas for improvement. How should we manage applications to best serve end customers? How can we use end-to-end visibility of application and service p...
21 Juni 20241h 1min
