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Ron Westfall

AT&T, DISH, and CableLabs Advance Americas O-RAN Alliance Testing

Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess the three-way collaboration between AT&T, DISH, and CableLabs to establish O-RAN Alliance testing and development initiatives at the CableLabs Kyrio facility and how it advances the global O-RAN Alliance mission in making sure the 5G ecosystem achieves the predicable use of open, intelligent, virtualized, and fully interoperable RAN technology.
Ron Westfall

Qualcomm, Ericsson, and Thales Take 5G Out of this World

Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess the three-way collaboration between Qualcomm, Ericsson, and Thales to test and develop 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks to help provide global 5G coverage, including areas currently not served by terrestrial networks, which can make deliver 5G ecosystem benefits such as making 5G smartphones that next incarnation of satellite phones.
Ron Westfall

NEC Buys Aspire Technology to Advance Open RAN 5G Adoption

Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine how NEC’s acquisition of Aspire Technology augments NEC’ s systems integration offering for Open RAN 5G applications, gaining the expertise and assets needed to deliver increased levels of system design and integration across 5G environments, including especially 5G standalone networks.
Ron Westfall

The 5G Factor: Speedy T-Mobile, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Thales Collab, China and Private 5G, Thumbs up on the Ericsson Vonage Deal, and a Vacillating Elon Musk Loses Allies

In this week’s episode of The 5G Factor, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover news of T-Mobile nailing (again) speed tests, the Ericsson, Qualcomm, Thales collab, China powering forward on private 5G, news that Elon Musk’s vacillating behavior might be costing him allies at the FCC on the 12 Ghz spectrum front, and the thumbs up from U.S. regulators on the Ericsson/Vonage acquisition and what that means moving forward.
Ron Westfall

Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung Do Airtel New 5G Deals in India

Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses how Airtel’s new 5G pacts with Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung affirm the rising competitive prospects for the trio across the global 5G ecosystem, including especially 5G RAN solutions, due to factors such as Airtel and the India’s entry into the 5G market, the wide-ranging ban on China-made equipment in key markets, and Open RAN’s evolving readiness for prime time 5G deployments.
Ron Westfall

Arista Acquires Pluribus Networks to Raise Cloud Networking Proposition to the Next Sphere

Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Arista’s acquisition of Pluribus Networks strengthen its hand in the fast-evolving cloud networking realm, boosts sales & marketing prospects and portfolio differentiation for its Converged Cloud Fabric and new Arista Unified Cloud Fabric proposition, strengthen its NVIDIA relationship, and can help advance adoption and deployment across the NetOps, DevOps, and CloudOps domains of intricate cloud networking environments.
Ron Westfall

SUSE’s Innovation Engine Roars: SUSE Rancher Now on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE – New Futurum Research Report

In this research report, Futurum Research explores why the SUSE Rancher solution and SUSE Rancher deployed on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE can deliver on the need for enhanced security, performance, and availability while simplifying IT operations and efficiency as organizations expand their adoption of microservices architectures and use of Kubernetes orchestration to enable DevOps and IT infrastructure teams to accelerate digital transformation initiatives.
Ron Westfall

Qualcomm and Samsung Up Their Alliance with Seven-Year Extension of Patent Licensing Agreement

Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the reaffirmation and expansion of the Qualcomm and Samsung partnership, including a seven-year patent licensing extension and Snapdragon platform collaboration in co-developing future Galaxy mobile devices, provides mobile ecosystem supply chain stability amidst recent turbulence due to global pandemic and geopolitical factors and provides a marked contrast to the Qualcomm Apple patent licensing relationship.
Ron Westfall

Oracle Database Service for Azure Makes Multi-Cloud Real

Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the introduction of Oracle Database Services for Azure is empowering Azure customers and applications with full access and integration to OCI database services through unified portals as well as delivering a simpler, more flexible cloud architecture that fulfills customer multi-cloud demands and sharply differentiates the Oracle and Microsoft multi-cloud proposition.
Ron Westfall

The 5G Factor: Battle of the Billionaires; O-RAN Americas Advances; NEC Buys Aspire Technology; and T-Mobile Oceus Partner

In this episode of The 5G Factor, a Futurum Tech Webcast focused on news out of the 5G and IoT ecosystems, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover news of Elon Musk’s Starlink complaining (again) about 5G, the NEC and Aspire acquisition, T-Mobile and Oceus alliance providing an assist to the DoD, AT&T, DISH, and CableLabs leading the O-RAN Alliance activities in the U.S. and more.
Ron Westfall

Samsung Raises 5G FWA Profile with Mediacom Cable Win

Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the Samsung Mediacom 5G FWA deal highlights major ongoing 5G ecosystem developments such as growing cable operator commitment to use 5G FWA to broaden their addressable broadband market, the further boost to Samsung’s credibility as a supplier of 5G network solutions including 5G FWA and vRAN/O-RAN, as well as the critical role CBRS spectrum can play in reducing the digital divide across rural areas.
Ron Westfall

SUSE’s Innovation Engine Roars: SUSE Rancher Now on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, Ron Westfall and Steven Dickens are joined by distinguished guests Andy Hartland, Senior Consultant at Mainline Information Systems and Andrew Gracey, Product Manager for Developer Experience as SUSE.
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