Chief Revenue Officer, Adtran Holdings
Search every verified James Wilson interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a September 2015 keynote at the Broadband World Forum, James Wilson, Chief Revenue Officer at Adtran Holdings, discussed the challenges facing the telecommunications industry. He stated that "the pace of change and the pace of adoption or the consumption of technology is increasing at an unprecedented level," noting that internet traffic composition in Europe and North America showed a significant portion of consumption was real-time entertainment. Wilson argued that this growth "affects and strains our networks" and makes it difficult to achieve a return on investment for delivering additional bandwidth. Wilson advocated for a "user-defined experience" enabled by fiber, cloud control, virtualized network functions, and highly automated, programmable networks. He described the industry's need to use data and knowledge to create "a more deterministic solution" to problems, and concluded by saying, "the best way to predict the future is to invent it ourselves."
“There's no such thing as infinite demand I realize but I do believe that we're virtually dealing with an infinite demand for bandwidth at this point.”
“When this continues to grow at this pace it affects and strains our networks for sure. It affects and strains our business cases because the values you can create by delivering additional bandwidth through services is hard to get the return on investment.”
“The pace of change and the pace of adoption or the consumption of technology is increasing at an unprecedented level.”
“The more fiber the better as it relates to the user experience, multiple service points, cloud control, virtualizing network functions so that you can program the network, and probably the most important one as it relates to being able to satisfy that real-time entertainment demand is having highly automated networks,...”
Session title: The Future State of the Network.
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