Jeff Baumgartner is a Senior Editor at Light Reading. He specializes in the telecommunications industry, focusing on themes such as telecom transportation and mobility, mobile networks, and the Internet of Things (IoT), while also covering topics like 5G technology and telecommunications infrastructure. Jeff's work has been featured in Data Center Knowledge, IWCE's Urgent Communications, Light Reading, and Editor & Publisher (E&P) Magazine.
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By: Jeff Baumgartner, Rob Pegoraro, Jeff Baumgartner, Jeff Baumgartner, Jeff Baumgartner, Robert Clark, Nicole Ferraro, Jeff Baumgartner, Robert Clark
Today's networks built for streaming and data won't suffice for the demands of the AI inference network.
By: Jeff Baumgartner, Jeff Baumgartner, Jeff Baumgartner, Jeff Baumgartner, Robert Clark, Nicole Ferraro, Jeff Baumgartner
With plans to extend its fiber footprint to around 2 million premises and launch a mobile offer, Community Fibre looks like a rare 'altnet' success story in the UK.
Amid a plan to trim debt, Optimum has struck a series of transactions, including moving its East footprint and Lightpath unit into an new subsidiary.
EchoStar said it is not making an interest payment due today as it waits to be paid for its pending spectrum sale to AT&T.
By: Jeff Baumgartner, Jeff Baumgartner, Paul Rainford, Jeff Baumgartner, Jeff Baumgartner, Jeff Baumgartner, Jeff Baumgartner
The industry is constantly being warned about traffic growth, and yet research and telco behavior shows networks have all the capacity they need.
By: Anne Morris, Jeff Baumgartner, Paul Rainford, Jeff Baumgartner, Jeff Baumgartner, Jeff Baumgartner, Jeff Baumgartner, Nicole Ferraro
Electric cooperatives are disappointed with a number of policy changes to the BEAD program, from its dropped fiber preference to the NTIA's move to impose FCC pole attachment regs on co-ops. Some are declining their grants.
By: Jeff Baumgartner, Paul Rainford, Jeff Baumgartner, Nicole Ferraro, Jeff Baumgartner
The new route, which complements FLAG's Mumbai-Singapore route, provides a second, geographically distinct path between India and Singapore.
By: Jeff Baumgartner, Paul Rainford, Jeff Baumgartner, Nicole Ferraro, Jeff Baumgartner
VEON continues its push to embed AI into digital services, which are becoming an ever bigger part of the group's revenue.
By: Jeff Baumgartner, Paul Rainford, Jeff Baumgartner, Nicole Ferraro, Jeff Baumgartner
Roger Entner breaks down seven operating moves SpaceX has made that no wholesale satellite supplier needs and what the carriers' panicked JV announcement seems to signal.
By: Jeff Baumgartner, Paul Rainford, Jeff Baumgartner, Jeff Baumgartner, Paul Rainford, Jeff Baumgartner, Paul Rainford, Jeff Baumgartner, Jeff Baumgartner
Data and latency demands for AI paired with AI agents and strict security requirements are fueling a 'network supercycle,' says Cisco's Jeetu Patel. Execs also were asked if they foresee an AI 'bubble' similar to the dot-com era.
