Podcast: Decoding Microsoft's M&A moves 759727

Light Reading's Mike Dano says that Microsoft's recent acquisitions of Affirmed Networks and Metaswitch signal that the company has bigger plans than just finding more stuff to sell to telcos.

Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief

May 18, 2020

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Light Reading's Mike Dano joins the podcast to talk about what's going on at Microsoft. The company is buying firms that have particular expertise in telecom-focused networking and have had some success in bringing complex telco network functions to the cloud.

Also, apparently Azure Private Edge Zones isn't a euphemism for anything. It's really a product.

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Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading

About the Author

Phil Harvey

Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading

Phil Harvey has been a Light Reading writer and editor for more than 18 years combined. He began his second tour as the site's chief editor in April 2020.

His interest in speed and scale means he often covers optical networking and the foundational technologies powering the modern Internet.

Harvey covered networking, Internet infrastructure and dot-com mania in the late 90s for Silicon Valley magazines like UPSIDE and Red Herring before joining Light Reading (for the first time) in late 2000.

After moving to the Republic of Texas, Harvey spent eight years as a contributing tech writer for D CEO magazine, producing columns about tech advances in everything from supercomputing to cellphone recycling.

Harvey is an avid photographer and camera collector – if you accept that compulsive shopping and "collecting" are the same.

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