Bits, Bytes & Beyond
Bits, Bytes & Beyond
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Bits, Bytes & Beyond, hosted by Trent Blakely, Head of Product Marketing at PCCW Global, is a podcast that goes beyond the buzzwords and dives deep into the real-world challenges of how data moves โ and what may happen when things go wrong. Each episode features candid conversations with industry experts, breaking down technical use cases and unpacking the strategies that actually work.
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The podcast focuses on themes of cloud computing, data migration, network connectivity issues, and real-world technical challenges with episodes that include topics like multi-cloud deployment pitfalls and connectivity intricacies across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, striving to provide practical strategies and insights for tech practitioners.

Bits, Bytes & Beyond, hosted by Trent Blakely, Head of Product Marketing at PCCW Global, is a podcast that goes beyond the buzzwords and dives deep into the real-world challenges of how data moves โ and what may happen when things go wrong. Each episode features candid conversations with industry experts, breaking down technical use cases and unpacking the strategies that actually work.
The internet has enabled rapid IoT growth. But as deployments scale, so do the risks, hidden costs and complexity. How can enterprises design secure, scalable architectures without exposing traffic to the public internet? In Episode 8 of Bits, Bytes & Beyond, Trent Blakely sits down with Bart Coppens, Vice President Solutions Engineering at PCCW Global, to explore how private connectivity is reshaping IoT. From private APNs and programmable SDN to identity management without VPN sprawl, they unpack what it takes to build secure, future-ready architectures.
Episode chapters:
(00:00) Start
(01:39) Intro
(02:40) How do you design IOT solution architectures that can avoid traffic exposure to the public internet?
(06:46) What trade-offs are becoming clear between cost, scalability, security and isolation?
(09:00) Walk us through a real deployment where private connectivity solved a data security or compliance issue.
(10:32) How is identity management done when you rely on private APNs and programmable SDN layers instead of VPN tunnels?
(13:40) What are the most common challenges MNOs and MVNOs face when implementing out-of-the-box APNs
(16:00) Can you speak to how Edge SIM was invented and delivered as a team?
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