In this latest episode of the Broadband Pulse podcast, we talk to Kevin Morgan, Clearfield's Chief Marketing Officer.

Morgan, who has served in this role since 2016, will transition into the newly created role of Executive Advisor to the CEO in January 2025.

During this episode, Morgan addressed several issues facing broadband providers:

• Highlights of the 2024 Fiber Connect trade show
• How the upcoming unprecedented buildout of fiber prompted by the Broadband, Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program can be made easier with proper planning
• Customers’ critical concerns about the BEAD allocation process
• How service providers and communities continue to take advantage of existing funding like the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and ReConnect
• How Clearfield’s BILT and the ClearPass®Dust Cap can simplify new fiber broadband deployments
• Upcoming innovations Clearfield plans to release in 2024 and 2025

In this latest episode of the Broadband Pulse podcast, we talk to Charles Seifert, senior manager of network test hardware platforms for Keysight, about the 800GE network opportunity.

Seifert, who has decades of experience in the networking industry, addresses several issues:

• What technologies are driving changes in data center interconnects that affect the buildout of new network infrastructures
• How has AI and/or HPC effected Keysight’s strategy for testing network infrastructures
• The challenges in building a new network infrastructure for AI and HPC network applications

Listen to this episode to hear from Charles about the emerging 800GE market, and how it will evolve to meet current and future needs.

In this latest Broadband Pulse podcast, we talked to Nigel Alvares, Marvell's VP of global marketing and business planning.

During the podcast, we addressed the need to accommodate growing AI and other applications, and data center power and water consumption is poised to skyrocket.

Marvell has also been actively enhancing its product line to deal with the AI explosion.

During the September ECOC 2024 tradeshow, Marvell highlighted new product innovations like:

• Orion 800G coherent DSP for carrier and data center interconnect
• COLORZ® 800G ZR/ZR+ DCI optical modules with C-Band and L-Band support
• Nova 1.6T PAM4 DSP for AI and cloud connectivity