The Connectivity Podcast

The number of Internet users in Japan is expected to increase to 116.4 million by 2026. With many of Japan’s businesses at the cutting edge of technology, there is a demand for scalable connectivity to connect local businesses to a global network of customers and partners. How is Japan’s Internet market developing? What are the traffic trends? What role does organizations like JPNAP and APIX play in this region? And what can be done to mitigate connectivity outages following natural disasters like earthquakes?

In this episode, Mattias Fridström is joined by Katsuyasu Toyama, COO at JPNAP, the biggest Internet exchange in Japan. 

Maxie Reynolds started her career as an offshore underwater robotics pilot and subsea engineer working in Norway, Venezuela, Australia, Italy, Russia, Nigeria and the US. She then transitioned into cyber security, working in ethical hacking, social engineering and red teaming. She also published a best selling book titled ‘The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals.’ In 2021, she moved back to the field of subsea engineering and founded Subsea Cloud – a data center infrastructure company that places data centers underwater. 

In this episode, she and Mattias Fridström talk about deploying subsea data centers pods, using robotics for maintenance, the importance of mindset among new talent, scaling your business, and proving sustainability through transparency.

Maxie Reynolds started her career as an offshore underwater robotics pilot and subsea engineer working in Norway, Venezuela, Australia, Italy, Russia, Nigeria and the US. She then transitioned into cyber security, working in ethical hacking, social engineering and red teaming. She also published a best selling book titled ‘The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals.’ In 2021, she moved back to the field of subsea engineering and founded Subsea Cloud – a data center infrastructure company that places data centers underwater. In this episode, she and Mattias Fridström talk about subsea engineering, physically breaking into high security facilities like headquarters and prisons, and the idea of putting data centers underwater (and challenges that come with that).

Neal Elinski, General Manager of Software Engineering at Cologix is back to share insights on the development and trends in the colocation market. Together with Mattias Fridström, he talks about what factors impact the selection of where to put a data center, physical and data security trends, finding skilled people in competition with for example the hyperscalers, remote working in the wake of the pandemic, how to prove your sustainability and becoming even more sustainable, and how the colocation market will develop in the next couple of years. 

Cologix is a leading network-neutral interconnection and hyperscale edge data center company.

In this episode, our guest is Neal Elinski, General Manager of Software Engineering at Cologix, a leading network-neutral interconnection and hyperscale edge data center company. Mattias Fridström and Neal talk about trends and challenges in the cloud services market, real or virtual cross connects and how much needs to be pre-built to be fast, edge computing and keeping control of your data, consolidation of the data center market, and supply chain issues in the industry. 

Jesse Robbers, Director Industry & Digital Infrastructure at Quantum Delta NL is back to discuss Quantum Networks with Mattias Fridström. Who is supporting and funding the development of Quantum Internet? Has COVID-19 had any impact on this work? How does the industry compete with the hyperscalers and others in finding skilled people? What security trends do we see in Quantum Internet? Will Quantum Internet have an impact on sustainability?

Quantum Delta NL is a joint effort by a team of specialist from quantum research institutes, coordinating bodies, and a range of exciting industrial partnerships and startups.

This episode features Jesse Robbers, Director Industry & Digital Infrastructure at Quantum Delta NL, a joint effort by a team of specialist from quantum research institutes, coordinating bodies, and a range of exciting industrial partnerships and startups. Mattias Fridström and Jesse Robbers discuss the development in Quantum Internet: How is this work progressing in the lab and in the real world? How close are we to some really cool stuff in this area? What is the Quantum Internet Alliance?  Should Quantum Internet be considered in current network plans stretching to 2030?

In this episode, Mattias Fridström continues speaking to Katia González, Head of Fraud & Advanced Analytics at BICS, member of GSMA Fraud and Security Group, and Chair of i3 Forum’s Fight Against Fraud workgroup. 

Learn about:

• The estimated loss to fraud of 28 billion € / year
• Who is losing this money?
• Using crowd sourcing in fraud prevention
• Pandemic’s impact on frauds
• Trends in the overall voice business
• What is GSMA doing in the fraud prevention space?
• The future fraud market and telecoms development

EP27: Preventing frauds in the telecoms industry 

In this episode, Mattias Fridström meets with Katia González, Head of Fraud & Advanced Analytics at BICS, member of GSMA Fraud and Security Group, and Chair of i3 Forum’s Fight Fraud Workstream. 

Learn about:

• What types of fraud are common in the telecoms industry?
• What solutions could help?
• Who are behind these frauds – private actors, organizations or even countries?
• Trends among attackers in terms of technology and targets

In this episode, Mattias Fridström is meeting with Mike Kavis, Chief Cloud Architect at Deloitte Consulting, author of Accelerating Cloud Adoption & Architecting the Cloud, and host of The On Cloud podcast. 

Learn about: 

• The impact of COVID-19 in the cloud space
• Sustainability in the datacenter market
• If there’s a need for more clouds
• Cloud at the edge
• Mike’s authorship 
• The development of the cloud market and telecoms in general over the next years