Author: Ron Westfall

Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Casa Systems’ new Axyom Cloud Native vBNG/AGF technology, powered by 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors, can enable service providers to offer wireline and wireless services at the edge more efficiently, which meet their performance objectives while diversifying their addressable markets by introducing new services frugally.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess Pure Storage’s financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year of 2023 and why they believe Pure Storage’s Q4 2023 and FY 2023 results pave the way for the company to meet its FY 2024 guidance by delivering the data storage portfolio innovations such as the new FlashBlade//EE solution which can meet the energy use optimization priorities that are the topmost concern for organizations committed to fulfilling their strategic sustainability objectives.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the combined capabilities of Aeris’ and Ericsson’s IoT business can accelerate the launch and management of IoT programs on a global basis, especially in supporting CSP managed IoT services, as well as improving IoT security across both IT and OT environments.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Azure for Operators is now better positioned to expand its mobile ecosystem influence and win more telco mind share through the introduction of the next wave of its solutions and services, including Azure Operator Nexus, targeted at transforming telco to techco.
In our latest Market Insight Report: 5G Sustainability — CSPs, Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine the key considerations and market shapers driving 5G sustainability programs and initiatives.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why HPE now has the unified private 5G/WiFi portfolio key to catalyzing private 5G wireless uptake by enterprises and CSPs and can disrupt the 5G wireless competitive landscape to its advantage.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Marvell strengthens its competitive position by performing EDA workloads in the AWS cloud, particularly in gaining portfolio development and time to market advantages, and AWS can showcase the Marvell collaboration as validation for its cloud EDA offering, to the benefit of the entire cloud EDA ecosystem.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new Vodafone Raspberry Pi-based 5G network prototype is stimulating innovation across the 5G ecosystem, especially across the European SME and MPN segments, demonstrating Vodafone’s new European R&D Center is already producing new thinking and approaches to spurring Open 5G and Open RAN technology deployment as well as strengthening supply chains.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new HP Z solution set can swiftly improve HP’s competitive stance in the tightly contested workstation market segment, compelling main rivals Dell and Lenovo to counter with their own portfolio development and marketing moves.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the Qualcomm 5G FWA Gen 3 platform is a boon to the 5G ecosystem by improving the 5G FWA experience for CSPs, partners, and customers alike through innovations such as Qualcomm QTM567 mmWave Antenna Module designed to provide reliable and extended mmWave coverage as well as WiFi 7 with 10G Ethernet, developed to deliver multi-gigabit speeds and fixed access-like latency to virtually every device in the home or facility.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Nokia’s adoption of the In-Line Acceleration approach can help accelerate and broaden market acceptance of Cloud RAN, including multi-sector macrocell base stations, microcell base stations, intelligent radio heads, and O-RAN vDUs as well as advancing ecosystem outcomes such as Vodafone/Nokia collaboration to spread Open RAN across Europe and broadening O-RAN Alliance support.
Futurum analysts Ron Westfall and Michael Diamond discuss Qualcomm’s Snapdragon x75 5G Modem-RF that will offer its vendors the ability to create products that take advantage of the next era of 5G connectivity, strengthening customer centricity and improving digital transformation initiatives.

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