The Connectivity Podcast

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: 

• How Mike became one of the pioneers in the cloud industry
• Whether cloud has become a mainstream solution
• Best advice to someone that wants to start using the cloud
• Major mistakes companies do when moving to the cloud
• If people really understand connectivity to the cloud (and do they need to?)
• The trend towards major cloud providers touching the connectivity space

In this episode, Mattias Fridström is meeting with Funke Opeke, founder and CEO of MainOne, the leading provider of telecom services and network solutions for businesses in West Africa. With its 7,000km subsea cable system, including landing stations in Nigeria, Ghana and Portugal, and its growing metropolitan infrastructure and data center ecosystem, MainOne is uniquely positioned to accelerate the development of digital infrastructure in the region. In April 2022, Equinix announced that it’s entering Africa by closing the acquisition of MainOne.

Learn about: 

• The recent entrance of hyperscalers to Africa
• Sustainability within the data center market in Africa
• The regional impact of COVID-19 in the industry
• If people really realize how important connectivity is
• The future of the data center market and telecom development in Africa

In this episode, Mattias Fridström is meeting with Funke Opeke, founder and CEO of MainOne, the leading provider of telecom services and network solutions for businesses in West Africa. With its 7,000km subsea cable system, including landing stations in Nigeria, Ghana and Portugal, and its growing metropolitan infrastructure and data center ecosystem, MainOne is uniquely positioned to accelerate the development of digital infrastructure in the region. In April 2022, Equinix announced that it’s entering Africa by closing the acquisition of MainOne.

Learn about: 

• The story of MainOne
• Challenges of running a data center and a network in Africa
• The building on MainOne’s subsea cable to Europe some 15 years ago
• Status of the African market: data centers, connectivity on land, international sea cables 

In this episode, Stephen Alexander, CTO at Ciena and Mattias Fridström discuss the industry trend towards open and disaggregated networks, the latest developments in IPoDWDM, hyperscalers building their own gear, sustainability in networking, and the future of the optical development. 

In this episode, Stephen Alexander, CTO at Ciena and Mattias Fridström discuss how the optical networking industry has developed over the last decades, trends in enterprise networking such as the increased demand for raw bandwidth, the global component shortages, and the pandemic’s impact on network design. 

In this episode, Johan Gustawsson, Senior Director MIG Routing at Cisco and Mattias Fridström discuss what the disaggregation in the industry is all about, the role that IPoDWDM plays in this development, and how this can change the world for operators. They also speak about sustainability in the networking industry and how this can be improved.

In this episode, Johan Gustawsson, Senior Director MIG Routing at Cisco and Mattias Fridström discuss the usage and development of routing silicon, and why this is important to operators. They also speak about Moore’s law and what this means for Life Cycle Management in the networking space. 

Mattias Fridström and Rudolf Gordon-Seymour, Head of International Funding at Télécoms Sans Frontières discuss the NGO’s responses to the 2020 Beirut port explosion and the 2020 Moria refugee camp fire, attracting talent and funding as well as getting hold of new technology as a non-profit organization, and the impact of COVID-19 on the organization’s work.

Mattias Fridström and Rudolf Gordon-Seymour, Head of International Funding at Télécoms Sans Frontières discuss challenges of enabling communications in disaster areas, the NGO’s educational programs to increase digital skills in these areas, preventing bandwidth heavy applications and data by using custom-engineered communications kit, and the possibilities of satellite broadband. 

In this episode, Mattias Fridström and Phartiban Kandappan, CTO at Infinera discuss the strategy of hyperscalers building their own gear, dealing with the Shannon limit, if the development of fiber is important to optical suppliers, and how telecom cables are used to predict earthquakes.

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