May 11, 2026 · 38 min · 18 segments
This week on Buffering, Gabe and Zack are joined by Frank Ploumen, SVP of Product Line Leadership at Calix, to unpack a growing risk in today’s AI race: “AI orphans.” As service providers accelerate…
This week on Buffering, we're joined by Frank Pleumen, Senior Vice President of Product Line Leadership here at Calix.
Frank oversees product strategy across our entire cloud platform, and he sits at the intersection of every major technology decision we're making as a company, man, it's a big job, Frank, from network operations to customer experience to AI.
And Frank believes they're becoming one of the biggest hidden risks in telecom and, and Frank, I think really business in general.
And today we're gonna unpack what AI orphans are, why they happen, and what leaders should be doing about it.
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This week on Buffering, we're joined by Frank Pleumen, Senior Vice President of Product Line Leadership here at Calix.
Frank oversees product strategy across our entire cloud platform, and he sits at the intersection of every major technology decision we're making as a company, man, it's a big job, Frank, from network operations to customer experience to AI.
And Frank believes they're becoming one of the biggest hidden risks in telecom and, and Frank, I think really business in general.
And today we're gonna unpack what AI orphans are, why they happen, and what leaders should be doing about it.
