High Tech Forum Podcast
By Richard Bennett
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Description
Explaining the networking technology that makes the Internet possible. High Tech Forum editor Richard Bennett regularly interviews Internet pioneers about the details behind the high-tech magic we interact with everyday.
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CleanITS Director Keith Gremban on 5G Propagation | Costs of deployment for new networking technologies tend to decline over time as we learn how to avoid unnecessary redundancies. Deployment costs of fiber-to-the-home networks declined to about 20% of initial levels over the first three years of deploy. | 10/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShane and Richard on Wi-Fi, Security, and Europe | In this edition of the podcast, Shane and Richard talk about setting up a Wi-Fi network for optimal security and performance, recent developments in security, and what's going on in Europe with copyright enforcement and privacy. | 9/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly on 5G | FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly joined us for a High Tech Forum podcast this week to bring us up-to-date on FCC issues such as 5G, broadband deployment, mid-band spectrum, and the... | 6/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFCC Commissioner Brendan Carr on 5G | This edition of the podcast features Commissioner Brendan Carr, the FCC’s 5G champion. Carr was promoted from Chief Counsel to Commissioner in August. Since his swearing-in he’s taken up the... | 5/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWill Rinehart Explains the Cambridge Analytica Story | It's obvious that some of this story is hokey, but you're not sure which part. You've come to the right place because Will Rinehart lays it all out in this podcast. | 3/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Vast 5G Conspiracy and Other Oddities | In this edition of the High Tech Forum podcast, Richard and Shane discuss the report from Axios (or was it InfoWars?) about a White House intern’s plan for government takeover... | 2/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShane and Richard Talk Internet Performance and Politics | In this edition of the High Tech Forum podcast, Shane Tews interviews me about my recent research paper, “You Get What You Measure“. This is the paper that looks into... | 11/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInternet Pioneers Discuss Network Architecture and Regulation | Internet regulation is like the Game of Thrones, a battle between parochial interests that ignores the threat of an innovation-less winter. | 8/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Coming Productivity Boom with Bret Swanson | In this edition of the HTF podcast, we talk with Entropy Economics founder Bret Swanson about his recent paper (with Michael Mandel), The Coming Productivity Boom. Swanson sees high productivity... | 8/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRoslyn Layton Visits High Tech Forum | What are we losing by pretending that mobile broadband is a noncompetitive market that needs to be tightly managed by a Washington-based regulator? We can't know that in the US because we only have the market we have. | 6/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPodcast: How Title II Net Neutrality Undermines 5G | Peter Rysavy identifies the friction points between 5G networks and Title II regulation. | 5/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDave Farber on Title II ISP Regulation | The FCC was designed as an independent agency because the public is always biased in favor of the status quo. As Henry Ford may have said about his Model T, the public just wanted faster horses because they were scared of cars. | 5/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHoward Waltzman on Internet Privacy | We should absolutely be focusing on data security as well as privacy expectations. All companies should take steps to protect the security of collected data holistically in a comprehensive way. | 4/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChuck Jackson on Radio Interference | In this podcast, we talk with Professor Charles Jackson about the paper he presented at the TPRC conference in October, Defining Harmful Interference Efficiently. The paper proposes a way of... | 2/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChairman Pai’s FCC Challenge | In this podcast, Shane Tews and Richard discuss key issues likely to grab the FCC's attention this year, the impact of Chairman Pai, and whether the FCC needs to be reorganized. Beyond the issues themselves, | 1/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanForecasting Tech with Dave Farber | Dave Farber, the Internet's grandfather, makes some insightful and surprising predictions for the Internet in 2017. Augmented reality will penetrate social and business life, and work on a more secure Internet will begin in earnest. | 12/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGovernment Underreach and Overreach with Dave Farber | Between government underreach with cybersecurity law and overreach in reacting to attacks and fake news, we live in troublesome times. | 12/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanICANN Expert Shane Tews Dishes Internet Governance | In this edition of the High Tech Forum Podcast, Richard Bennett is joined by ICANN insider Shane Tews (@ShaneTews) for the lowdown on current issues in international Internet governance. | 11/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAjit Pai Talks Spectrum and FCC Reform on High Tech Forum | In this edition of the High Tech Forum Podcast, Richard Bennett is joined by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Ajit Pai (@AjitPaiFCC) to discuss a range of issues, including the... | 10/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOm Malik Joins Richard Bennett on this HTF Podcast Edition | Om Malik, the long time tech journalist, founder of Gigaom and current True Ventures partner, joins Richard Bennett in the latest edition of the High Tech Forum Podcast. As the... | 9/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHappy Birthday, Internet: Richard Bennett talks with Don Nielson | The Internet was born 40 years ago in a demonstration connecting a wireless node in California with all the computers on ARPANET. Listen to the godfather. | 8/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat the IoT is all about with Stacey Higginbotham | Richard Bennett talks with The Internet of Things Podcast Host, Stacey Higginbotham In this High Tech Forum podcast edition, Stacey Higginbotham (@gigastacey) joins Richard Bennett (@iPolicy) to talk about what... | 8/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRichard Bennett: FCC STB Plan is Out of Step with Today’s Technology | High Tech Forum founder Richard Bennett talks with Shane Tews of the American Enterprise Institute and Vrge Strategies about the FCC’s set-top box Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and the habits... | 6/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA High Tech Forum Conversation on Wi-Fi vs. LTE-U with Mike Thelander | In the latest High Tech Forum podcast, Richard Bennett talks with Mike Thelander, CEO and founder of Signals Research Group (SRG), about Thelander’s research and recent developments in wireless technology.... | 5/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Future of Wi-Fi: A HTF Conversation with Peter Rysavy | Ever wonder if Wi-Fi will always be around? Or what the future of mobile will hold? High Tech Forum founder Richard Bennett resumes his discussion with Rysavy Research founder and... | 3/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean5G: A Dynamic, Flexible Future Network | In this High Tech Forum podcast edition, High Tech Forum founder Richard Bennett talks with Rysavy Research founder Peter Rysavy about 5G, spectrum, and how consumers will benefit from wireless... | 3/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSpectrum, Spectrum, Spectrum | These days, it’s hard to think of any major consumer product that doesn’t offer wireless Internet connectivity. Thermostats, appliances, cars, baby monitors – all of these and more depend on... | 1/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWho Cares About Consistency? | The DC Circuit Court’s oral arguments largely ignored fundamental inconsistencies with the FCC’s regulations—problems that engineers recognize as vital to operation of the Internet. In the latest High Tech Forum... | 12/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHigh Tech Forum In-Depth “State of the Internet” Discussion with David Belson and Richard Bennett | High Tech Forum Founder Richard Bennett recently spoke with David Belson, the editor of Akamai’s“State of the Internet” reports, about Akamai’s most recent findings. SOTI is the most definitive data set and analysis... | 12/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Emerging Future Internet | Cybersecurity is on the front burner of Internet concerns for both users and policy makers thanks to relentless, high profile attacks. We’ve all heard about data breaches at Sony, OPM,... | 11/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanImpact of Regulations on Internet Traffic Management | The Internet is a wonderful and complex system, but it’s often poorly understood by regulators. The wrong regulations can prevent it from working reliably and from serving society’s communication needs.... | 11/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBennett on cybersecurity: ‘We want networks to compensate for errors in judgment’ | In the latest High Tech Forum podcast, Richard Bennett sat down with Shane Tews, chief policy officer at 463 Communications, a firm that advises high-tech organizations on Internet policy. Tews... | 10/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCTIA CTO Tom Sawanobori | CTIA Chief Technology Office Tom Sawanobori sat down with High Tech Forum founder Richard Bennett to discuss the state-of-play in the wireless industry. Click play to learn more about: The... | 10/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOfcom Report Raises Questions about Feasibility of Net Neutrality Regulations | In Part 2 of our interview with Neil Davies, the network expert discusses the results of a study commissioned by the British regulator Ofcom, and what lessons can be drawn... | 9/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHave We Reached ‘Peak Internet’? A Conversation with Neil Davies | We may have reached “Peak Internet,” Dr. Neil Davies tells HTF Founder Richard Bennett in a new interview. “We haven’t actually got a sustainable system at the moment, and the... | 9/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Conversation with Henning Schulzrinne | Columbia University Professor Henning Schulzrinne served as Chief Technologist at the Federal Communications Commission from 2011 to 2014. During his career, he has helped develop the key protocols that enable... | 9/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRichard Bennett’s amicus filing in the challenge to the FCC’s open Internet Order | High Tech Forum refrains from taking policy positions, but the FCC’s Open Internet Order was one issue on which Founder Richard Bennett simply couldn’t stay silent. Bennett filed an amicus brief questioning... | 8/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDino Flore, Chairman of the 3GPP RAN Group | You can take your smartphone anywhere in the world, pop in a new SIM card, and it will just work. That’s not just some happy accident; that’s the result of... | 8/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShane Tews interviews HTF Founder on 5G and the Future of Networking | High Tech Forum Founder Richard Bennett recently sat down with Shane Tews, chief policy officer at 463 Communications, a firm that advises high-tech organizations on Internet policy. Tews also works... | 7/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJohn Cioffi, the Father of DSL | Stanford Professor John Cioffi is world-renowned for his contributions to networking: He invented DSL, VDSL and Vectored DSL, and his work has led to more than 400 publications and more than... | 7/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFred Baker, Cisco Fellow | HTF Editor Richard Bennett spoke with Cisco Fellow Fred Baker about his thoughts on networking technology, security, and the intersection between law enforcement requests and what is actually doable within... | 7/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Conversation with Dave Farber, Grandfather of the Internet – Part Two | Dave Farber, known to many as the Grandfather of the Internet, talks about his role in the development of the world’s first computer networks. Farber also speculates on what’s next,... | 6/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Conversation with Dave Farber, Grandfather of the Internet – Part One | Dave Farber, known to many as the Grandfather of the Internet, talks about his role in the development of the world’s first computer networks. Farber also speculates on what’s next,... | 6/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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This podcast is a unique glimpse into the tech & internet world. It is so interesting to hear from the innovators and the early creators -- and how technologies are used today. First podcast about creation of internet was fascinating. Keep them coming!
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