What's the Story? AT&T, Verizon, Dish and others hunt for common network APIs

Light Reading's Mike Dano joined the podcast to discuss how AT&T, Verizon, Dish, the GSMA and others are approaching the development of network APIs.

Kelsey Ziser, Senior Editor

July 18, 2023


Light Reading's Mike Dano joined the podcast to discuss how AT&T, Verizon, Dish Network, the GSMA and others are approaching the development of network APIs. We examined the challenges in publishing a common set of APIs and the capabilities those APIs will support such as network insights and threat detection.

For a lightly edited transcript, please click the caption button in the video toolbar.

Here are a few topics we covered:

  • AT&T develops new network APIs for network insights and performance. (00:57)

  • AT&T's partners for API development. (03:31)

  • Verizon's API development efforts. (05:40)

  • GSMA works on publishing common set of APIs. (06:52)

  • Challenges for the industry in agreeing on common set of APIs. (08:32)

  • Ensuring common APIs are secure. (09:34)

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— Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Senior Editor, Light Reading

About the Author(s)

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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