CommScope Crosstalk
by Mike Rearden
Whether you want to plug into emerging technologies that will help you shape your business or tap industry expertise to unlock your partnership potential, don’t miss the CommScope Crosstalk podcast. The series airs every other Thursday and features the insights you need to gain the competitive edge in connectivity. Join host Mike Rearden as he chats with influencers, subject experts and telecom leaders to bring you insider strategies and best practices.
Episodes
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The Power Shift: The Next Wave of Electrification with Ronna Davis of VoltServer
You know, for decades we've been moving electricity pretty much the same way. Bigger wires, bigger conduits, bigger challenges. But as AI, cloud computing, and edge deployments continue to explode, the industry is asking a simple question: "What if power distribution could become as intelligent,...
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Practical everyday uses for AI applications including Copilot
We bring on a new co-host and get honest about how AI is reshaping daily work, creativity, and even the way we learn. With author and trainer Mike Song, we move from AI hype to practical Copilot habits that boost productivity without ignoring security and authenticity. • Welcoming new co-host…
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To Build A.I. in the Cloud, We Need a Different Type of Plane to Get There
A.I. is everywhere… you can’t be in the ICT industry without A.I. impacting you in some way these days… even if it’s just the need to stay well informed on progress, adoption, and trends. There’s currently a tremendous focus on building data centers for this new life form, but to build A.I. in…
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Dispersion and Next Gen Transmission, with Mike Cooper and Earl Parsons
Earl Parsons and guest host Mike Cooper dig into fiber dispersion and next generation transmission.
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Managing Fiber in the Data Center with CommScope's FiberGuide
CommScope Systems Engineer Mungree Singh discusses the FiberGuide Fiber Management System.
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Journey to the Edge - Advancing Building Networks to Support Tomorrow's Applications
Rebroadcast from the 2024 Winter BICSI conference in Orlando, Florida. Presented by Mike Rearden
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Safety, Privacy, and the Five D's of Physical Security - with Kelly DeLeo of Axis Communications
In 1984, Rockwell released the song “Somebody’s Watching Me”… a song about a guy who feels like he’s always being watched. But this was 1984… Fast forward to 2024, and there are cameras everywhere, making up a major element to a larger security apparatus we’ve all come to expect everywhere we go....
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Going the Distance - Reaching beyond the Standards with Confidence
Have you ever been doing something and felt like there had to be a better way to do it? Staring at a current frustration thinking that someone should come up with product or solution to make things easier. Our daily lives continue to get better and better because smart people come up with new…
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Powering the Future - A Conversation with Stephen Eaves, the inventor of Fault Managed Power
What does VHS and Blu-Ray have in common? How about the Compact Disc and LC Fiber Connectors? What about asphalt roads and AC Power? What do they all have in common? They all had a competitor they beat out to become the quasi standard of their technology. Remember Betamax? HD-DVD? Digital Tape?...
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Partnership Defined - When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts - With Jared Marcel, Boe-Tel TN Company
The word “Partner” has become quite cliché these days. I’m not even sure people really know what it means anymore. It tends to be used haphazardly like the term “Trusted Advisor”, so we try to clearly define it by adding modifiers. In our industry we have channel partners, installation partners,...
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Flying Blind - How to Gain Valuable Visibility in your Network, with Shawn Clark
The legend of the crystal ball is famous for giving people visibility into the future. What an amazing gift that would be. Clear visibility in general is a gift itself if recognized and utilized properly. Take the dashboard in a car, or the cockpit of an airplane, giving you clear visibility of...
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Choosing the Right Training and Enablement for your Team
Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, once said, “The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay”. Famous entrepreneur, Richard Branson once said “Train people well enough so they can leave, but treat them well enough so...
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Endless Innovation - SYSTIMAX 2.0 with Luc Adriaenssens
SYSTIMAX 2.0 What is that? What does that even mean? Let’s not speculate with a poorly written introduction. Listen now and we'll get right to it.
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Innovation Defined - The Legacy of SYSTIMAX
“A legacy of innovation”. It’s a catchy phrase, to be sure, but how can one determine if something is just marketing hyperbole, or an accurate way to describe one’s contributions to something? The best way is to talk with those responsible for such a legacy. In the ICT industry there are…
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Smart Hospitals, Lunar Data Centers, and A.I. with John Daniels, CEO of BICSI
If there’s one thing we learned from the way the world responded to covid, it’s the fact that hospitals need to get smarter. I mean, it makes sense. Today we have smart phones, smart homes, smart cars, smart buildings… everything seems to be getting smarter. It’s only logical that we consider how...
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Three New Year's Resolutions for the ICT Professional with Mike Rearden
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...
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Leading Locally AND Globally - BICSI's Global Impact in the ICT Industry. A Conversation with John Daniels, CEO of BICSI
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…
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Making the World a Better Place with iMasons. A Conversation with Dean Nelson
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...
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Connecting the Dots of IoT with Andy Jimenez
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…
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TEOTWAWKI - Three Macro Trends threatening the Status Quo in the ICT Industry with Ronna Davis
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...
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The SFF Battlefield - Choosing the Small Form Factor Connector of the Future, with Ken Hall
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.
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AI and the ICT Industry, with Bill Kleyman
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...
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Staying Ahead of Constant Change - A BICSI Preview with Casey Adams
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,...
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ICT Industry's Skilled Labor Shortage and BICSI's Response, with John Daniels, CEO of BICSI
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...
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Reaching the Dark Spaces on Your Campus, with Mungree Singh
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Utility Grade Infrastructure with Zac LaFever
What is Utility Grade Infrastructure (UTG) and how can it make a difference in a network's design and deployment. Join CommScope Crosstalk host Mike Rearden as he talks with Wesco's Zac LaFever about all things UTG.
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Data Centers, Sustainability, and Nomad Futurists - A Conversation with Lee Smith
CommScope Crosstalk host, Mike Rearden, sits down with widely known data center consultant Lee Smith to discuss modern data centers, critical incident documentation, sustainability in the data center, and the Nomad Futurist Foundation.
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Next Gen Data Centers and Modern AI - A Conversation with Bill Kleyman
CommScope Crosstalk host, Mike Rearden, sits down with AFCOM Data Center World Program Chair, Bill Kleyman, recorded live from Data Center World in Austin, Texas, to discuss next gen data centers and the future of AI.
About this show
Whether you want to plug into emerging technologies that will help you shape your business or tap industry expertise to unlock your partnership potential, don’t miss the CommScope Crosstalk podcast.
The series airs every other Thursday and features the insights you need to gain the competitive edge in connectivity. Join host Mike Rearden as he chats with influencers, subject experts and telecom leaders to bring you insider strategies and best practices.
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