Arelion's Mattias Fridström: Network disaggregation ain't easy, it's necessary

Arelion's Mattias Fridström joins the podcast to discuss why disaggregation in service provider networks is necessary and 'good in our industry,' but also 'keeps everyone on their toes and keeps the operators buying the latest and greatest gear.'

Kelsey Ziser, Senior Editor

September 20, 2023

Mattias Fridström, chief evangelist for Arelion, joins the podcast to discuss why disaggregation in service provider networks is necessary and "good in our industry," but also "keeps everyone on their toes and keeps the operators buying the latest and greatest gear."

He also discusses Arelion's approach to using pluggable optics and why he believes 400G bandwidth is good enough for now.

Click on the caption button for a lightly edited transcript.

Here are a few topics we covered:

  • Update on Arelion's wholesale business. (04:36)

  • How Arelion operates its optical network in Europe and the US and the two main use cases for that network. (05:50)

  • The business case for using pluggable optics. (08:37)

  • Analyzing Internet traffic patterns (14:32)

  • How the use of pluggables aligns with the trend toward disaggregation in service provider networks. (15:58)

  • Why 400G is "big enough" for now and there's no need to "stress" about immediately deploying 800G. (21:48)

  • Telecom topics covered in Fridström's podcast, The Connectivity Podcast. (25:18)

About the Author

Kelsey Ziser

Senior Editor, Light Reading

Kelsey is a senior editor at Light Reading, co-host of the Light Reading podcast, and host of the "What's the story?" podcast.

Her interest in the telecom world started with a PR position at Connect2 Communications, which led to a communications role at the FREEDM Systems Center, a smart grid research lab at N.C. State University. There, she orchestrated their webinar program across college campuses and covered research projects such as the center's smart solid-state transformer.

Kelsey enjoys reading four (or 12) books at once, watching movies about space travel, crafting and (hoarding) houseplants.

Kelsey is based in Raleigh, N.C.

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