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Stephen Rose hopes to apply his two-and-a half decades of telecom experience as the newly named CEO of Render Networks.
By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities
With experience from companies like IBM and Nokia Bell Labs, Stephen Rose hopes to apply a fresh and innovative approach as the new CEO of Render Networks.
Rose, who spoke to Broadband Communities on Day 2 of Connected America 2025 in Dallas, said AI presents an opportunity to increase efficiencies in network construction efforts and deployments.
He said there is an imperative to derisk deployments, considering the current cost of capital and the sheer amount of money spent on networks.
“If you can do that, then everybody wins,” he said during an appearance on the Beyond the Cable podcast.
Rose was named as Render’s CEO earlier this month, the network deployment management software firm announced on their website.
According to Rose, the use of generative AI remains at a “fairly nascent stage.”
“But traditional AI has been used in telco networks on the OSS and the BSS platforms, particularly, for years,” he said. “And we’ve had massive success with it.”
Rose also said it’s important that quality assurance work for deployed networks only has to be done once.
“So, you really only want to do the work once,” he said. “If you can do that then everybody wins.”
Rose said having to keep revisiting a site can hurt the financial health of ISPs and those in the network construction ecosystem.
Jobs also become safer and more secure if ISPs have stable profit margins, Rose said.
Stephen Rose, CEO of Render Networks
“People are happier, customers are happier,” he said.
Rose also addressed some fears that AI could be a job killer.
“We see it as a force multiplier for skills,” he said. “And it really is a way of enabling anybody that’s in a role today to get rid of the mundane, boring, very, very irritating tasks.”
Rose said, by doing so, AI would allow employees to focus on things that really matter.
Click here to hear the full interview with Rose on Spotify.
Apple Podcasts listeners, meanwhile, can catch the full interview with Rose here.
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