The Death of the Single Connection: Alex Duncan lays out real talk on 5G, Starlink and resilient ...

Your network can look fine on paper and still be one bad day away from trouble, because one connection is one point of failure. Alex Duncan, Chief Solutions Officer at CTS Mobility, has been the person paged at 2 a.m., led enterprise wireline and wireless work at Verizon, and fixed deployments tripped up by everything from a misplaced adapter to an MRI machine. He joins host Steve MacDonald to explain why the single connection is on its way out and what to build in its place. Along the way, Alex shares what he learned from large wireless rollouts, why satellite needs rules around metered data, and why he still asks what happens if an asteroid goes through the satellite. Key Learnings • Why wireless earned its reputation on 4G, and what 5G, network slicing, and dedicated spectrum change • How application steering helps wireless behave like the wireline circuit you trust • Why satellite deserves its own role, and how to manage metered data • Why customers want prescriptive, plug-and-play solutions even when every deployment is different • How to avoid lock-in and cut costly truck rolls “I think building in that future-proof and resiliency and consistency into your network is the most important thing that you can do as you're looking at wireless first.” Alex Duncan, Chief Solutions Officer at CTS Mobility Watch or listen to the full conversation at https://www.bigleaf.net/podcast/episo....