CommsDay Live

#131 Australian Telecommunications Alliance CEO Luke Coleman

Ahead of the CommsDay Summit's Restoring Telecom Reputation session held with the Australian Telecommunications Alliance, we talk with its CEO, Luke Coleman, about how telco can repair its lustre.

#130 BAI Communications' Stephen Farrugia

In this podcast, Grahame Lynch talks with BAI Communications' Stephen Farrugia about its proposal for reforms in the 600MHz band that could sure up public safety connectivity, as well as the firm's recent acquisition of Titan ICT and its success overseas.

#129 Kearney's Alex Liu and Sarovar Agarwal

In this episode, we interview visiting Kearney chairman emeritus Alex Liu and managing partner, ANZ Sarovar Agarwal talking AI in the telco, takeouts in MWC and a 10 mile-high look at where the global telecom industry sits right now. It's a fantastic trip through current thinking in the global telecom C-suite

 

 

#128: 40 Years of .au with Dr Bruce Tonkin

Grahame Lynch interviews Dr Bruce Tonkin, CEO of AUDA, about the 40-year history and evolution of the .au domain. They discuss AUDA's unique multi-stakeholder rules, the role of ICANN, the DNS infrastructure, critical infrastructure protections, and how domain names will shape digital identity and AI-driven services in the future.

#127 Corning's Brian Rhoney on AI, optical connectivity and the DC

Brian Rhoney, Director of Data Center Market Development at Corning Optical, explains how optical fibre and new interconnects are critical to scaling AI clusters, shifting data center traffic, and solving the memory and bandwidth challenges posed by modern GPUs.

The episode also covers supply and infrastructure constraints, power and water considerations, Australia’s competitive position and sovereign AI concerns, and emerging trends like lensed connectivity and replacing copper links with optical solutions.

Interviewer: Grahame Lynch

#126 Belinda Dennett of Data Centres Australia

Australia's data centre industry finally has a peak body to represent its interests to governments and the community. We speak with Belinda Dennett, the head of Data Centres Australia, about the new group's plans and why Australia has an opportunity to become a significant player in the AI infrastructure space.

#125 NBN Co's Accelerate Great explained, with Bec Heap, Brendan Donohoe

In this special podcast, NBN Co execs Bec Heap and Brendan Donohoe take CommsDay's Grahame Lynch through the new Accelerate Great initiative, which sees speeds increase on existing plans, new plans and a push to improve the in-home experience. This is the most extensive interview yet on NBN's plans.

#124 CommsDay Summit panel: Building Australia's digital infrastructure

From CommsDay Summit 18 June. Chaired by Steve Cannane and featuring Brookfield global data centres CEO Udhay Mathialagan | FibreconX CEO Mark Rafferty | Equinix Australia MD Guy Danskine | NextDC chief operating officer Simon Cooper.

 

#123 CommsDay Summit: State of the telecom industry panel

Hear the full panel discussion from this week's CommsDay Summit, moderated by Steve Cannane, featuring: 

Comms Alliance CEO Luke Coleman | Telsoc president Michelle Lim | Telecommunications Carriers Forum NZ CEO Paul Brislen | regulatory expert Andrew Sheridan | NSW Dep’t of Primary Industries & Reg Development’s Peter Adams | New Street Research analyst Ian Martin.

#122 Telstra's new Connected Future plan | Corning's Kevin Hussey talks data centres

In this episode we look at Telstra's new Connected Future 30 program and how it is attempting to even change the lexicon around how the telco describes itself and we do a deep dive into the world of fibre connectivity and data centres with Corning's Kevin Hussey