Bits, Bytes & Beyond

About Bits, Bytes & Beyond

Bits, Bytes & Beyond, hosted by Trent Blakely, Head of Product Marketing at PCCW Global, is a podcast that goes beyond the buzzwords and dives deep into the real-world challenges of how data moves – and what may happen when things go wrong. Each episode features candid conversations with industry experts, breaking down technical use cases and unpacking the strategies that actually work.

Publisher

PCCW Global | Console Connect

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Jun 2025

Latest episode

22 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 11 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Sweet dreams are made of RPCs | Ep.10

   Host Trent Blakely interviews Omar Abi Issa, Global Sales Director – Blockchain, Web3 & AI at OVHcloud, about evolving blockchain infrastructure, scaling challenges, and network architecture's critical role.

2. 

   11 May 2026

   Cloudy with a chance of connection | Ep.9

   Trent Blakely interviews Daniel Healey, Senior Technical Partner Manager at PCCW Global, about the fusion of cloud and network domains and its impact on end-to-end service delivery.

3. 

   9 Mar 2026

   Keep it SIMple | Ep. 8

   Host Trent Blakely interviews Bart Coppens, VP Solutions Engineering at PCCW Global, about how private connectivity secures and scales IoT architectures without public internet exposure.

4. 

   11 Feb 2026

   WAN way or another | Ep. 7

   Trent Blakely interviews Pascal Menezes and Divesh Gupta about how AI, open standards, and automation are transforming the WAN for enterprise and service provider needs.

5. 

   16 Dec 2025

   Routing the road to 2026 | Ep.6

   Host Trent Blakely interviews PCCW Global CTO Paul Gampe about three key trends reshaping global connectivity: Network as a Service, transmission on-demand, and the Model Context Protocol.

6. 

   21 Oct 2025

   The last mile is always the hardest | Ep.5

   Host Trent Blakely interviews Shaheen Kalla, Presales Team Lead at PCCW Global, exploring the persistent challenges and future of last-mile connectivity.

7. 

   22 Sept 2025

   Peering into the future | Ep.4

   Richard Petrie, CTO at LINX, and Trent Blakely discuss the evolving role of network peering amidst data sovereignty, automation, and AI advancements.

8. 

   18 Aug 2025

   The API Effect | Ep. 3

   Trent Blakely interviews Lawrence Lim and Diego Neto about how APIs revolutionize network design, management, and evolution for business agility.

9. 

   21 Jul 2025

   Mind Your MANRS | Ep.2

   Trent Blakely interviews Paul Gampe, CTO of PCCW Global, and George Michaelson, former Senior Research Scientist at APNIC, about securing internet routing infrastructure through MANRS.

10. 

    23 Jun 2025

    Not all clouds are created equal | Ep.1

    Jay Turner, SVP at PCCW Global, discusses the unexpected challenges of multi-cloud deployments with Trent Blakely, revealing connectivity issues and quirks across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure in this interview.

11. 

    19 Jun 2025

    🚀 Launching Bits, Bytes & Beyond: The podcast for those who always get asked how to make it work 🛠️

    Trent Blakely interviews Jay Turner about cloud provider networking, revealing insider tips for moving data across complex digital ecosystems in this inaugural episode.

Inside a recent episode

Sweet dreams are made of RPCs | Ep.10

Published 22 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I want to correct a misattribution here, a little slight misattribution. It gets repeated broadly, but the 34% figure that people cite actually traces back to, and I have here notes, it was a 2019 Chainstack analysis report, and it found 34% of cloud-hosted Ethereum nodes were geographically concentrated in the US. […]

Who has been a guest on Bits, Bytes & Beyond

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Omar Abi Issa
• Daniel Healey
• Bart Coppens
• Pascal Menezes
• Divesh Gupta

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,070,438

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

39

Social presence

0

YouTube

82

Engagement

0

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