Displaying episodes 1 - 30 of 30 in total

Vision of a low-latency future - Ben Janoff

In our second podcast, we speak to SamKnows lead integrations engineer Ben Janoff to find out how SamKnows has updated its tests to measure latency using a new metric ...

Vision of a low-latency future - Jason Livingood

This month we talk to Comcast Vice President Jason Livingood about low latency DOCSIS and the amazing results the company has recorded in its trials of their technology.

The AI answer to your broadband problems

AI expert Richard Windsor, Founder of Radio Free Mobile, joins us to discuss the rapid evolution of the technology over the past year and how it could transform custom...

Qualcomm delivers SamKnows on-demand

CEO Alex Salter tells us what being part of the QSDK means for the company and the huge benefits it will bring to SamKnows’ customers. And lead integrations engineer, ...

SamKnows, our diversity dividend

Roxanne Botman, People and culture consultant at SamKnows, reveals how the company has embraced diversity, and the practical measures that have changed the company’s c...

The journey of a test: Jamie Mason

Jamie Mason, our Head of Measurement Operations gives a detailed description of how SamKnows’ performance tests are designed, executed and analysed.

Wi-Fi, the moving target

Sam Crawford, Co-founder and chief technology officer of SamKnows, reveals how SamKnows can help consumers and broadband providers diagnose problems with in-home Wi-Fi...

The SamKnows Data Journey

The SamKnows founder and chief technology officer Sam Crawford tells us about his initial vision for broadband measurements back in 2008, and how the measurement metho...

Starlink, the truth is out there: Sam Crawford

Sam Crawford joins Barry Collins to discuss Starlink’s performance figures in greater detail. He also gives his views on the emergence of potential rivals and the new ...

Speed part 3, Who killed speed?

SamKnows CEO Alex Salter and Comcast vice president Jason Livingood talk about how the broadband industry is changing and how it moves beyond its obsession with speed.

Speed part 2, Something Changed

Hear more from Dr Jane Parry and Sophie Gordon as they discuss how the Covid lockdowns transformed the way we worked and what it means for the broadband industry now t...

Gaming Kingdom: Jamie Mason

Jamie Mason Head of measurement support for SamKnows, explains how SamKnows test the performance of many of the world’s most popular games, and why the location of th...

Gaming Kingdom: Dr Ahmed Alsohaily

Dr Ahmed Alsohaily Chief technologist and adviser for the governor of the CITC tells us how Saudi Arabia delivered on the Kingdom’s goals to improve the performance of...

Days of Speed

What was the internet industry like in its early days? How did speed come to dominate broadband marketing? Comcast vice president Jason Livingood and SamKnows founder ...

The Gigabit Difference - Sam Crawford

Sam, our founder and chief technology officer draws on SamKnows’ exclusive data to reveal why gigabit-grade connections deliver more than download speed benefits. Pl...

The Gigabit Difference - Richard Tang

Richard is Chief Executive Officer of Zen Internet which is one of the UK’s few remaining independent broadband providers – and one of the most respected. Richard expl...

Broadband nutrition labels - Roxanne Robinson

Roxanne Robinson, SamKnows’ director of government projects explains what lessons can the US learn from other regulators when it comes to giving consumers more informa...

Broadband nutrition labels - Walter Johnson

Walter Johnson, former member of the FCC’s Office of Engineering & Technology gives us his frank views of why the labelling system failed in the past and what should b...

Cloud Gaming Podcast Pt 2: Jamie Mason

Dive into much more detail on cloud gaming with SamKnows’ Jamie Mason

Cloud Gaming Podcast Pt 1: Nvidia

Dive into much more detail on cloud gaming with Nvidia’s Andrew Fear

FaultFinder, the internet's early warning system

Sam Crawford explains how his latest game-changing product for ISPs can find internet performance anomalies in realtime and trace the fault back to its root cause auto...

Fragile Internet

When Facebook falls off the internet it's big news, various outages has brought down many major website this year. What are the knock on effects of major websites goin...

Making a Metaverse

Ball Metaverse’s Jerry Heinz reveals what it’s going to take to build a metaverse.

Measuring Broadband America 2

Interview with Roxanne Robinson, Director of Government & Academia at SamKnows

Measuring Broadband America 1

Interview with Walter Johnson, Chief Architect of the Broadband America Program.

The technology edition: The super agent that Sam built

Listen to Sam describe how he and his team built the SamKnows agent and precisely what it does.

Bufferbloat

SamCrawford explains Bufferbloat

Reality Gap Edition: Interview with Sam

Sam Crawford explains why a fast broadband package doesn't necessarily guarantee a fast Netflix connection.

© 2021 SamKnows