In the latest episode of Mike Huneke’s Red Flags Rising podcast, Mike and his co-host Brent Carlson interviewed Loyaan Egal regarding important trends in the US Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) use of its “covered list” authorities and what companies should do to anticipate and prepare for future listings and eventual FCC enforcement. These future listings could include, as recently reported by Reuters, foreign-made optical transceivers, which are critical components in today’s data centers.
Loyaan is the only person who has served as chief of enforcement for a regulatory agency (the FCC), staff chair of an executive branch interagency committee tasked with national security/foreign investment risk reviews, and an assistant US attorney in two of the largest US Attorney offices in the country. This background uniquely positions Loyaan to discuss the FCC’s underlying authorities, explain how those authorities are being used today, and anticipate what may be around the corner for optical transceivers following their inclusion on the covered list of drones, consumer routers, advanced robotic devices, and power inverters.
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