CommScope Crosstalk

Apr 18 2024
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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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Going the Distance - Reaching beyond the Standards with Confidence

Apr 18 2024 13 mins  
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 ways to overcome challenges.Leave it to the genius’ at SYSTIMAX Labs to come up with a wa

Powering the Future - A Conversation with Stephen Eaves, the inventor of Fault Managed Power

Apr 04 2024 15 mins  
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? What about DC Power?But what if we got one of them wrong? What if the technology that wa

Partnership Defined - When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts - With Jared Marcel, Boe-Tel TN Company

Mar 21 2024 22 mins  
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, design partners, supply chain partners.I don’t mean to sound overdramatic,

Flying Blind - How to Gain Valuable Visibility in your Network, with Shawn Clark

Mar 07 2024 13 mins  
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 what’s going on with the vehicle transporting you and your passengers. You would be lim

Choosing the Right Training and Enablement for your Team

Feb 22 2024 10 mins  
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 they don’t want to.”Training is so critically important. Easily one of the mos

Endless Innovation - SYSTIMAX 2.0 with Luc Adriaenssens

Feb 08 2024 10 mins  
SYSTIMAX 2.0What 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.

Innovation Defined - The Legacy of SYSTIMAX

Jan 25 2024 11 mins  
“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 thousands of people responsible for contributing to impactful innovations over the decad

Smart Hospitals, Lunar Data Centers, and A.I. with John Daniels, CEO of BICSI

Jan 11 2024 20 mins  
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 to make our modern hospitals “smart”.The results can literally be life chan

Three New Year's Resolutions for the ICT Professional with Mike Rearden

Dec 28 2023 9 mins  
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 new year’s resolutions for the ICT professional.

Leading Locally AND Globally - BICSI's Global Impact in the ICT Industry. A Conversation with John Daniels, CEO of BICSI

Dec 14 2023 17 mins  
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 spends a lot of time improving the ICT industry around the world is BICSI.