Author: Ron Westfall

Marvell Technologies continues to power innovation across its custom ASIC portfolio using 3nm, customization, and chiplet IP advances to provide optimized performance, power & area breakthroughs, and maximized returns on investments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Marvell’s Hugh Durdan explore why Marvell’s custom ASIC offerings fulfill the intricate, high-speed, high-performance silicon requirements of next generation 5G operators, cloud data centers, enterprises, and automotive applications as well as how Marvell’s custom capabilities provide the foundation for driving portfolio-wide innovation.
In this episode of The 5G Factor, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall talk Qualcomm and Vodafone on 5G Open RAN, General Dynamics’ new 5G and Edge Accelerator coalition, AWS nabbing the lead in the telco cloud wars, but Oracle and IBM are planting flags, too, and wrap the show with a look at the smart buildings market and what is powering that growth.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Marvell’s new Secure Deterministic Ethernet solution can deliver the TSN capabilities, SoC integration efficiencies, built-in security, protected automation, portfolio driven place-in-network optimization, and software support critical to expediting OT/IT convergence, especially throughout the manufacturing and critical infrastructure market segments and how Marvell’s OEM partners can streamline and catalyze their customers’ journey to open, deterministic Ethernet-based networks.
In this research report, Futurum Research explores why Micron is very well-positioned to provide leading edge memory and storage solutions that are high bandwidth, low latency, and offer massive capacity to global smartphone OEMs for use in their devices and how Micron offers the depth and breadth of memory and storage solutions that are purpose-built to serve all tiers of the smartphone ecosystem, including flagship, high-end and mid-range smartphones.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new Netcracker Fiber Cloud Solution augments its extensive cloud OSS/BSS portfolio and cloud deployment experience to counter solutions from top-tier rivals as well as attain differentiation by enabling wholesale fiber operators and their partners to swiftly take advantage of open environments to create compelling fiber-based services.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Oracle Database 23c “App Simple” is the first commercial database in the industry to support analytical and operational graphs while standardizing on SQL/PGQ and how JSON Relational Duality sets out to simplify application development by allowing data to be used simultaneously as application-friendly JSON documents and as database-friendly relational tables.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines the implications of the evolving Qualcomm and Vodafone partnership in advancing commercial 5G Open RAN deployments, particularly in Europe, by testing and developing 5G Open RAN Infrastructure solutions powered by the Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card and the Qualcomm QRU100 5G RAN Platform.
In our latest research brief, Smartphone Innovation Surge Fueling Demand for Higher Capacity, Purpose-Built Internal Memory and Storage — done in partnership with Micron — explores the megatrends defining the evolution of today’s mobile connectivity, while also exploring the technology that enables the next-generation experiences consumers are demanding.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman evaluate the x86 architecture and why they believe it enables organizations to swiftly adapt to changing business requirements, including the ability to maximize microprocessor architecture outcomes based on major evaluation factors such as overall performance, testing & amp, validation assurances, and industry standards leadership.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Nokia’s SaaS for Fixed Networks portfolio offer can accelerate fixed broadband deployments, especially fiber builds in the U.S. market, due to the significant expansion of U.S.-based federal, state, and local government funding options and enabling operators to take advantage of built-in SaaS benefits such as reducing upfront costs as well as streamlining operations and business processes.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman examine Micron’s financial results for the fourth quarter 2022 and full year of fiscal 2022 and why they believe that Micron is making the strategic moves critical to address rapidly weakening consumer demand and significant customer inventory adjustments across all its end markets until macroeconomic and semiconductor segment conditions improve.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine how Deutsche Telekom’s selection of Mavenir’s Converged Packet Core solution forwards DT’s Huawei replacement strategy in the mobile core, advances the 5G SA open architecture cause, bolsters 5G monetization use cases, and helps diversify Mavenir’s revenue streams.

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