On this podcast, Highline’s CTO Matt Hayes and Ciena’s CTO of the Americas Kevin Sheehan have an insightful, wide-ranging discussion on everything from the many challenges and opportunities involved in rolling out rural broadband, to operational excellence in networking, to the great potential and worrying risks of generative AI and its machine-learning capabilities.
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Episode 66: A CTO’s perspective on the digital divide, network operations excellence, and AI
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