The Cabling Podcast

On May 6, the TIA Fiber Optic Technology Consortium (FOTC) hosted a webinar on the topic of fiber polarity. Rodney Casteel, systems engineering manager with CommScope, delivered that webinar, which is now available for on-demand viewing. Leading up to the event, we sat down with Casteel to discuss how and why fiber polarity continues to challenge technicians and network owners. He explains that through best practices, and with the ...

Recently we had the opportunity to speak in-depth with highly accomplished industry professionals Brian Ensign—a long-time leader of people and organizations; Kevallyn Paskos—who embodies the future of what the industry can become; and Dave Sanders—a pioneer who has guided thousands along their professional paths. We sat down with each individually, for wide-ranging conversations about what makes our industry tick. While the topics...

Concert Technologies’ founder and CEO Dennis Mazaris, along with director of sales and marketing Zach Haverty, visit The Cabling Podcast to reflect on what has driven the company to complete 650,000 technology rollouts since its founding. Mazaris describes the company’s founding and evolution as a specialist in telecommunications project management. Haverty adds detail about the importance of actively managing each installation reg...

Mara Ervin, who recently founded Mara Jade Consulting, has spent decades serving the technology and business needs of data center operators and practitioners. From her roots in fiber-optic cabling to the formation of her multi-dimensional consultancy, Mara puts her experience and her connections to work solving data centers’ toughest problems. Listen to this episode to hear from Mara about the factors most affecting data center ope...

For the new episode of The Cabling Podcast, CI&M sits down with IEEE-SA's George Zimmermann and John D'Ambrosia. (Full bios here.)

Here’s a timeline of topics George and John discuss on the podcast:

00:40 - George Zimmerman introduction.

2:09 - John D'Ambrosia introduction.

3:37 - Panel question one: Broadly speaking, over Ethernet technology's 50 years, how have IEEE standards worked to shape and guide the technology's adoption fr...

For the latest episode of the Cabling Podcast, CI&M sat down for a discussion with Mungree Singh, MBA, RCDD, CBRS-CPI, Systems Engineering Manager - West for global network infrastructure provider CommScope.

A technical expert in cabling and connectivity physical infrastructure for information communications and technology (ICT) and data center deployments, at work Singh has achieved noteworthy success in driving growth and exceedi...

For this episode of The Cabling Podcast, senior editor Matt Vincent interviews Alcatraz AI CEO Tina D'Agostin to discuss the company's flagship "hardware as a service" platform incorporating its facial biometrics access control technology, the Rock.

The platform aims to transform building security by leveraging robust artificial intelligence and analytics capabilities. The company says the Rock enables building networks to make pow...

For this episode, we bring you a topically relevant recent interview from The Cabling Podcast's sibling in Endeavor Business Media, the Smart Buildings Technology Podcast. For the interview, senior editor Matt Vincent sits down with Tommy Linstroth, founder and CEO of Green Badger, a provider of a SaaS with comprehensive data analytics capabilities used to automate and easily report LEED compliance and ESG metrics for smart buildin...

Earlier this month, Cabling Installation & Maintenance's Cabling Podcast sat down with Cisco's Peter Jones, Ethernet Alliance chair, and Intel's Sam Johnson, the consortium's High Speed Networking (HSN) subcommittee co-chair for a discussion of the latest industry trends and technology advancements emanating from the Ethernet Alliance (EA) -- of which there's been no shortage.

With all the high-speed fiber applications being develo...

Earlier this month, Cabling Installation & Maintenance's Cabling Podcast sat down with Cisco's Peter Jones, Ethernet Alliance chair, and Intel's Sam Johnson, the consortium's High Speed Networking (HSN) subcommittee co-chair for a discussion of the latest industry trends and technology advancements emanating from the Ethernet Alliance (EA) -- of which there's been no shortage.

Ethernet Chair since 2020, Peter Jones is a Distinguish...

Josh Snowhorn is founder and CEO at Quantum Loophole, an operator of data center campuses in the gigawatt scale. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Snowhorn's key founding and executive positions include time at Terremark, Verizon (NYSE: VZ), Cincinnati Bell, and CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE). Snowhorn founded the Global Peering Forum, the annual meeting for the Internet interconnection and peering community, where he serves on ...

Last month, CI&M's co-publication in Endeavor Business Media, Broadband Technology Report, sat down for a Zoom interview with Dell'Oro Group vice president Jeff Heynen, renowned market analyst for the broadband access and home networking industries. This episode of The Cabling Podcast delivers the audio from that talk, as we seek to give our audience of information and communications technology (ICT) vendors, contractors, and insta...

For the latest episode of The Cabling Podcast, Cabling Installation & Maintenance sat down for a 2-part talk with Matt Koch, chief information officer for Allbridge, a provider of an integrated property technology, i.e. proptech, platform for smart buildings that integrates functions for design and planning, engineering, installation, and managed services and support. Building industry segments served by Allbridge’s proptech platfo...

For the latest episode of The Cabling Podcast, Cabling Installation & Maintenance sat down for a 2-part talk with Matt Koch, chief information officer for Allbridge, a provider of an integrated property technology, i.e. proptech, platform for smart buildings that integrates functions for design and planning, engineering, installation, and managed services and support. Building industry segments served by Allbridge’s proptech platfo...

In this 2-part episode of the Cabling Podcast, Cabling Installation & Maintenance senior editor Matt Vincent chats with Kam Patel, director of hyperscale and service provider data center solutions for CommScope. Patel has been with CommScope for more than 20 years in a variety of business development, engineering, marketing, operations, product management and strategy roles, and is the author of numerous articles, white papers, and...

In this 2-part episode of the Cabling Podcast, Cabling Installation & Maintenance senior editor Matt Vincent chats with Kam Patel, director of hyperscale and service provider data center solutions for CommScope. Patel has been with CommScope for more than 20 years in a variety of business development, engineering, marketing, operations, product management and strategy roles, and is the author of numerous articles, white papers, and...

This month's Cabling Podcast brings you an in-depth, 2-part interview with Dr. Curtis Knittle, Vice President of Wired Technologies at CableLabs.

As VP of Wired Technologies at CableLabs, the non-profit research and development lab funded by the global cable industry, Knittle and his team are responsible for specifying scalable deployment solutions in both hybrid fiber-coax and all-fiber access networks for CableLabs’ member compan...

This month's Cabling Podcast brings you an in-depth, 2-part interview with Dr. Curtis Knittle, Vice President of Wired Technologies at CableLabs.

As VP of Wired Technologies at CableLabs, the non-profit research and development lab funded by the global cable industry, Knittle and his team are responsible for specifying scalable deployment solutions in both hybrid fiber-coax and all-fiber access networks for CableLabs’ member compan...