Author: Ron Westfall

An assessment of 5G Turnaround Indicators Including Samsung’s Fiscal Q1 2024, 5G/eSIM Expansion, 5G Fund Revival, and T-Mobile’s Blink Smart Home Package
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Olivier Blanchard review potential indicators of improving 5G prospects in 2024 including Samsung’s surging Q1 2024 financial results amid AI’s rising tide, growing worldwide 5G connections plus eSIM expansion, the FCC proposing revival of the $9 billion 5G Fund for Rural America, and T-Mobile’s creative new Blink Smart Home bundle package.
Palantir Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Augment Efficiency, Performance, and Sovereignty from HQ to Tactical Edge for Vast Array of Organizations
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Steven Dickens assess why the Oracle-Palantir alliance delivers the synergy between OCI and Palantir's AI platforms needed to spur a wave of innovation.
Marvell Spotlighted Connectivity Optimized for Diverse Architectures and Use Cases to Meet Skyrocketing Demand for Bandwidth at OFC 2024
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses how Marvell’s OFC 2024 announcements demonstrate its ability to meet the massive scaling demands of optical data rates and deliver the energy per bit savings essential to transforming data infrastructure.
An Assessment of The Key MWC24 Takeaways Across AI RAN and Telco AI Including AI-RAN Debut, GLAA Launch, HEAVY.AI Progress, and AI Alliance Implications
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Tom Hollingsworth review the major AI RAN and Telco AI developments including the ecosystem impact of the AI-RAN Alliance launch, HEAVY.AI’s progress in the key GenAI areas of accuracy and speed, the official debut of the Global Telco AI Alliance (GTAA), and the AI Alliance’s focus on responsible AI.
HPE Introduces New GenAI LLMs Applied Directly to HPE Aruba Networking Central’s AI Search to Boost Performance and Improve Overall Operator Experience
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Paul Nashawaty assess the HPE Aruba Networking Central’s new approach of deploying multiple LLMs to incorporate GenAI capabilities to ensure security-first, AI-powered innovation.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Olivier Blanchard review their key takeaways from Mobile World Congress 2024 across the semiconductor and device realms including Micron’s memory and storage advances with Samsung Galaxy 24 series onboard.
An Assessment of Telco GenAI’s Market Impact with BT Group Using Amazon CodeWhisperer, Amdocs Microsoft GenAI Alliance, and Qualcomm Snapdragon X80 Debut
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Olivier Blanchard review the nascent market impact of Telco GenAI including BT Group using Amazon Code Whisperer to provide GenAI coding assistance to its software engineers, Amazon and Microsoft combining Amdocs amAIz platform and Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to bring verticalized GenAI to telcos, and the debut of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X80 5G Modem-RF system that integrates a dedicated 5G AI Processor and 5G-Advanced-ready architecture.
Dialpad and T-Mobile Continue to Combine the Benefits of T-Mobile’s Nationwide 5G SA Network with Dialpad’s AI-enabled Solutions and Innovations
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses how combining Dialpad’s new AI suite with T-Mobile’s 5G standalone network lets organizations perform smarter and seal deals faster through real-time insights from Dialpad capabilities such as Ai Recaps.
An Assessment of The Key MWC24 Takeaways Across the Cloud and Telcos Highlighted by Red Hat, Google Cloud, VMware, and HPE Partnerships with Key Telcos
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Tom Hollingsworth review the top cloud and telco takeaways from MWC 2024 consisting of Red Hat and Tech Mahindra’s hybrid cloud alliance advances, Red Hat and NTT in collaboration with NVIDIA and Fujitsu readying real-time AI analysis at the edge across IOWN environments, Telkomsel selecting Google Cloud to boost operations and products with GenAI, VMware looking to assure the DISH Wireless Open RAN build, and TELUS enlisting HPE servers to complete its Open RAN mission.
Oracle and NVIDIA Collaborate to Deliver Accelerated Computing and Generative AI Services that Establish Digital Sovereignty and Manage National Data
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall tells how Oracle and NVIDIA’s expanded collaboration merges Oracle’s cloud sovereignty, enterprise application acumen with NVIDIA’s AI prowess to create a more secure, efficient, and globally accessible AI ecosystem.
Lenovo’s Next Phase of NVIDIA Hybrid AI Collaboration Places Transformational AI in Hands of Businesses Including Cloud, On-Premises, Workstations, and Services
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Steven Dickens examine why Lenovo's unveiling of hybrid AI solutions in collaboration with NVIDIA marks a milestone in the AI domain, accelerating the deployment of AI applications across various industries.
Cisco Routed PON Debuts Aimed at Delivering Broadband Services in an Agile and Cost-effective Way by Overcoming Limitations of Traditional OLT Technology
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses Cisco Routed PON, which uses advanced features and capabilities of the Cisco router while capitalizing on the cost efficiency of PON networks to enable cost-effective, agile broadband services.

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