CommScope Crosstalk

Making new year’s resolutions has been a timeless tradition that often gets a bad rap because so many people fail to follow through on them, and they experience disappointment year after year.  But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Today is a special episode of CommScope Crosstalk, as we talk about new year’s resolutions for the ICT professional.

Elephants, ships and transcontinental railroads… to traverse the world in 80 days.  It’s been a long time since Jules Verne dreamed up such a tale.  

Today, we can go all the way around the world using only fiber optic cable… and not in 80 days.  More like under .8 seconds.  

One organization that spends a lot of time improving the ICT industry around the world is BICSI.

Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple computer, once said “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

I believe most world changers remain relatively unknown to the rest of us unless we happen to be connected in some esoteric way.

In our industry, we often bear witness to people incrementally changing the world through a little-known organization called iMasons.

We’re joined by founder of iMasons, and CEO of Cato Digital, Dean Nelson, talking about how Infrastructure Masons and Cato Digital is making the world a better place through their sustainability efforts.

It seems like everything’s an acronym these days.  We’re losing the art of conversation to shorthand abbreviations.  And I’m not convinced we all know what we’re saying to each other.  

In the ICT industry, we talk about IT, OT, IoT, IIot, IoB, AI… it goes on and on…

Today, we’re connecting the DoTs of IoT.

It’s the end of the world as we know it… and I feel fine.

We have seen more changes in the past three years than we likely experienced in the prior ten years… it’s tough to keep up for sure.

Today, we’re facing three macro trends that are promising to bring even more changes, and if we don’t prepare now, we could end up getting left behind.

Sound discouraging?  Scary?  Cynical?  Not at all.  Wherever there is change there’s opportunity.

Today, we’re talking about these trends and how to navigate them with confidence. 

The LC Connector won in the 90s.  Today, there's a whole new battle going on.  Join Ken Hall as he discusses the various SFF connectors, and why the MPO16 connector will be the dominant MPO connector for data centers in the future.

Are the machines going to kill us?  

In the movie Terminator, Kyle Reese explains to Sarah Conner that the machines got smart, saw humans as a threat, and decided our fate in a microsecond.

Today, Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is becoming more advanced, and more useful, and as a result there is increasing concern about whether AI is truly a helper or a job killer.

Today, we’re discussing AI and the many possibilities available to the ICT industry through recent advances in this technology.

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If there’s one thing that remains the same in our industry, it’s the constant cadence of change.  It can be tough to keep up.  At CommScope, we have an extremely talented team of system engineers to help the rest of us stay up to speed.  One of the best ways to learn from them is at industry events, such as the upcoming BICSI Fall conference in Las Vegas… Casey Adams joins the podcast to talk about our system engineering team and what CommScope is doing at this year’s Fall conference. 

The ICT industry is experiencing severe skilled labor shortages.  BICSI CEO John Daniels joins the podcast to discuss BICSI's response to these challenges and the many different initiatives BICSI is using to lead the industry through these challenging times.  In addition, we discuss the upcoming BICSI Fall Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.  

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