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Sumita Gupta Sharma, head of Transmission Networks at Arelion (formerly Telia Carrier) speaks to the company's name change and ambitions around disaggregating its optical networks. She also describes the need for more direct optical routes around the globe.

Teresa Monteiro, Infinera's director of Solution Marketing, Software and Automation, discusses the benefits and challenges of disaggregated optical networks, how the increase in traffic is impacting these networks, and also, why she believes everyone should have a basic science education.

In this episode of Will 5G Change the World?, Nokia's Olivier Guéret talks through strategies for operators to monetize their 5G investments. In addition to shifting from selling connectivity to selling business outcomes, Guéret highlights the need for a strong focus on ecosystem development from both a governance and engagement perspective.

Cora Brito, application support manager at IntelePeer, teaches me all about CPaaS and voice-automated AI. We also discuss the controversial topic of call bots. Are they just infuriating or are they also helpful?

Deborah Simpier, CEO at Althea, a networking company, comes on the podcast to explain how the company's solution offers a different approach to a distributed network, and why the current internet business model doesn't work for everyone.

On this episode, Marisa Viveros, vice president of Strategy & Offerings for the Telecom, Media and Entertainment Industry at IBM defines the IBM telco cloud network ecosystem, delves into the specifics of the company's recent cloud partnerships with Verizon and Telefonica and explains how Open RAN fits into the larger telco cloud conversation.

In this episode of Will 5G Change the World?, Ericsson Chief Technology Officer for North America, Mike Murphy, discusses how network infrastructure modernization and other factors can help operators break the energy curve as the upgrade to 5G. Further, Murphy discusses Ericsson's own sustainability initiatives, and shares his thoughts on how 5G can enable other applications with positive impacts on sustainability.

In this podcast, Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s Tim McCarthy, senior director of product management, discusses the importance of FastConnect to the company’s currently products as well as how it figures into a recently-articulated 10-year growth plan that applies mobile technologies to new market areas like compute, XR, gaming and more.

Shannon Rosales Mirani, senior human resources business partner for Global Sales at Tanium, comes on the podcast to discuss how prioritizing diversity and equity helps the company to grow and innovate.

According to Oracle's Director of Product Marketing Chantel Cary, there are still more questions than answers around how to best monetize 5G. Listen to this week's episode to discover how the company is helping CSPs tackle this reality.

Carla Guzzetti, VP of customer experience at Extreme Networks explains what distributed networking is, why it's something you should care about and what it has to do with the concept of the infinite enterprise. She also uses her own experience as a podcast host to give me some solid podcasting tips.

On this week's episode, FiberLight's SVP of Enterprise Sales Sue Kelly discusses the important, and often overlooked, role that fiber will play in the 5G era, as well as what operators and enterprise customers are looking for in their fiber solutions.

Gena Sbeglia is a biologist and biology education researcher at Stony Brook University, and perhaps most importantly, my big sister. On this week's episode, we talk about what it means to have a STEM identity and how traditional approaches to science and STEM education prevent true learning in a way that disproportionally impacts female students and students of color.

Innovate5G's President and CTO Rashmi Varma shares the company's 5G efforts and vision and offers a deep dive into why making technology and innovation more accessible has been at the heart of her work.

By mid-2021, roughly 170 service providers had launched 5G networks, adding 1 million subscribers per day. 5G's growing adoption is exciting, but it also requires a new approach to network design, deployment and management. On this week's episode, Ericsson's Cecilia Atterwall and Sibel Bahadir discuss how the company has evolved its network service offerings to help its customers better tackle 5G implementation.

Movandi Corporation's CEO and founder, Maryam Rofougaran compares key characteristics of C-Band and mmWave. She also details the company's demonstration in which it placed mmWave repeaters inside a moving vehicle, advancing C-V2X communications for the next generation of connected cars.

Rachel Van Gorp, co-founder and creator of a new mobile app that lets you buy drinks for loved ones from anywhere in the world, shares her experience being a female tech founder and her perspective on our changing social behaviors.

According to Sandy Carter, vice president at Amazon Web Services, the company's customers are moving past the technology implementation stage of the digitalization journey and are beginning to focus on developing and achieving their mission. Listen to this week's episode to hear more about this transition, as well as Sandy's involvement with Girls in Tech.

IBM's Steve Goetz, vice president, senior partner, and global leader of the Telecom Media Entertainment Industry Center of Competency, discusses the role of system integrators as mobile networks become disaggregated and operators look to sell 5G into enterprise verticals.

With the industry’s first programmable 800G solution now on the market, how fast have customers been embracing it? Well, according to Helen Xenos, senior director of Portfolio Marketing at Ciena, pretty fast. Take a listen to find out what's behind the high interest in 800G and what challenges it helps solve for service providers, as well as an update on what's happening at the edge of our networks.