The Connectivity Podcast

What does the future of telecom look like? Kent Lidström, CTO of Smartoptics returns to the podcast for a discussion with Mattias Fridström on:
The increased importance of where components are manufactured
How the convergence of IP and optical layers has impacted suppliers
Hyperscalers building their own gear
Hollow-core fiber
Where quantum networking research stands today
Sustainability challenges in networking
Optical innovations to expect in the coming years
Don’t miss this deep dive into the trends shaping tomorrow’s networks.

How has optical networking evolved over the past 25 years – and what’s next? In this episode, Kent Lidström, CTO at Smartoptics, joins Mattias Fridström to explore:
The biggest shifts in optical networking and what still needs to change
Openness and disaggregation in the telecom industry
Shannon’s limit
How mergers and acquisitions are reshaping the industry
Why enterprises are moving toward simpler services like “raw bandwidth”
Encryption-based and physical security 
Strategies for managing component shortages through dual sourcing
If you’re curious about the past, present, and future of optical networking, this conversation is packed with insights.

Markus Viitamäki, Senior Infrastructure Architect at Embark Studios is back on the podcast. In this episode, he and Mattias Fridström discuss Markus’ previous engagement in the world’s largest gaming festival DreamHack, when to establish local gaming sites to meet customer needs (and what the requirements are), DDoS attacks in the gaming industry, and whether gamers really understand how the Internet is working.

In this episode, Markus Viitamäki, Senior Infrastructure Architect at Embark Studios joins the podcast to discuss trends in the gaming industry, main drivers to creating a new game, and how much latency and bandwidth are affecting the gaming experience.

Misha Kuperman, Chief Reliability Officer at Zscaler is back on the podcast. In this episode he and Mattias Fridström discuss if the recent trade tariffs will impact services from Zscaler, whether people in general understand cloud connectivity, if security in the cloud is just a waste of bandwidth resources, what customers know about the public internet, if security standards in telecoms are important, and what security trends we will see in enterprise networking in five years’ time.