{"id":188624,"date":"2025-03-20T22:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/state-of-connectivity-podcast-lightyear"},"modified":"2025-03-20T22:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:00:55","slug":"new-on-the-pod-lightyear-considers-the-state-of-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=188624","title":{"rendered":"New on the Pod: Lightyear Considers the State of Connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\">\n <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/state-of-connectivity-podcast-lightyear\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/hubfs\/2019\/Blog%20Assets\/chainlink-690503_1280.jpg\" alt=\"Depiction of a chain link fence to symbolize connection.\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re pumped to have Dennis Thankachan, Co-Founder and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/lightyear.ai\/\">Lightyear<\/a>, back on <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.telegeography.com\/telegeography-explains-the-internet-podcast\"><em>TeleGeography Explains the Internet<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last time Dennis joined us on the show, we dug into Lightyear&#8217;s approach to creating a digital telecom lifecycle automation platform for enterprise networks.<\/p>\n<p>This time, we discuss their <a href=\"https:\/\/lightyear.ai\/ebooks\/lightyears-state-of-connectivity-2025\">State of Connectivity Report<\/a>, which dovetails nicely with many of the issues we research here at TeleGeography. (Perhaps this read is a perfect companion to our <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.telegeography.com\/the-state-of-the-network-in-2025\">State of the Network<\/a>? A match made in heaven, etc.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/track.hubspot.com\/__ptq.gif?a=594292&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.telegeography.com%2Fstate-of-connectivity-podcast-lightyear&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fblog.telegeography.com&amp;bvt=rss\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; \"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re pumped to have Dennis Thankachan, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightyear, back on TeleGeography Explains the Internet.<br \/>\nLast time Dennis joined us on the show, we dug into Lightyear&#8217;s approach to creating a digital telecom lifecycle automation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15102,5030,480,5031,5037],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-centers","category-internet","category-podcast","category-pricing","category-wan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188625,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188624\/revisions\/188625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}