Carrier 2.0

Carrier 2.0

Hosted by Steve Saunders · Fierce Network TV

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15
Episodes
4
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Daily
Cadence
2025
First episode

About Carrier 2.0

Carrier 2.0 goes beyond the headlines to uncover the future of telecom. Hosted by Fierce Network’s Steve Saunders, the show brings you inside the minds of the executives rewriting the rules of connectivity. Each episode delivers unfiltered conversations with industry leaders as they confront today’s biggest challenges, share hard-won lessons, and offer bold predictions about what comes next. From 5G and AI to the cloud and open networks, Carrier 2.0 cuts through the hype to reveal the real signals shaping tomorrow’s connected world.

Publisher
Fierce Network TV
Category
business · technology
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
29 Sept 2025
Latest episode
16 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 15 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Extensibility at Scale

  2. 24 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Industry Already Knows the Future of Networking

  3. 3 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Trust Is the New Perimeter

  4. 13 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Who Governs The Agents?

  5. 22 Jun 2026

    Sovereignty Without Isolation

  6. 1 Jun 2026

    The Carrier Identity Crisis

  7. 26 Feb 2026

    Telco Execution: Where Complexity Meets Trust

  8. 13 Feb 2026

    AI as a Systems Problem

  9. 23 Jan 2026

    Strategies for Carrier Transformation

  10. 16 Jan 2026

    Networks Under Siege – AI Security, Infrastructure Threats, and the Battle to Protect Carrier Networks

  11. 10 Dec 2025

    The AI-Driven Network – How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Architecture, Open RAN and the Future of Work

  12. 13 Nov 2025

    Masum Mir of Cisco on AI Data Gravity, IT/OT Convergence, and the Edge Opportunity

  13. 29 Oct 2025

    Yago Tenorio of Verizon on AI, Open RAN, and the Next Smartphone Moment

  14. 29 Sept 2025

    Ryan Asdourian of Lumen on Culture, AI, and the Next Era of Carriers

  15. 29 Sept 2025

    Carrier 2.0 Trailer

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Extensibility at Scale

Published 16 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Pilots are an established part of deploying new technology and services. But they can be deceptive. There is a tendency, consciously or unconsciously, to design them to succeed. Limited variables, easier problems, and no black swan events. But that's not the real world in which real businesses operate. And this is especially true of AI. When deployments fail, it usually isn't because of the model. They fail because everything around the model changes. Different processes, data, governance and people. Scaling doesn't test the technology. It tests the architecture. We want to make it real. And the way we make it real is help our clients move from a pilot purgatory phase to a scale deployment phase, where you're really adopting AI at an enterprise-wide. […]

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