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Ron Westfall

MWC 2022: Qualcomm Unleashes Game Changing 5G Ecosystem Innovations

Qualcomm debuts new device and network chipsets at MWC 2022 that promise to deliver increased 5G performance, responsiveness, coverage, and energy efficiency across the 5G ecosystem. Futurum analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess why Qualcomm’s new portfolio offerings could deliver game changing innovation across the 5G ecosystem and further validates its credibility as a vital enabler of accelerating 5G builds and expanding 5G global adoption.
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MWC 2022: Amdocs Digital Services Expansion Accentuates Amdocs Mission to Spur Cloud Journeys

Amdocs expands Amdocs Digital Services capabilities with the aim of assisting and accelerating communications service provider and media organization cloud journeys. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Amdocs Digital Services expansion, including the recent acquisition of cloud services specialist DevOpsGroup, aligns with increasing use of professional services by organizations to advance their cloud journeys and puts competitive pressure on rivals to up their DevSecOps credentials.
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MWC 2022: Ericsson 5G Energy Efficiency Portfolio Updates Validates Energy Efficiency as Key Selling Point for 5G Networking Solutions

Ericsson evolves its RAN portfolio with seven new products and solutions that aim to power sustainable, smart, and slim 5G networks. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Ericsson’s portfolio development emphasis on 5G energy efficiency advances aligns with CSP sustainability and ESG goals and boosts competitive prospects across 5G network builds.
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Spectrum Enterprise Enhances MNE Solution, Uses Cisco Meraki to Strengthen Digital Workforce Capabilities

Spectrum Enterprise bolsters is Managed Network Edge solution with enhancements designed to improve productivity for office, remote, and mobile workforces through new managed network solution options. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why using the Cisco Meraki platform strengthens the Spectrum Enterprise MNE solution in countering rival offerings and meeting the distinct demands of distributed workforces.
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MWC 2022: Dell Intros New Open Telco Solutions and Works with Marvell to Spur Open RAN

Dell Technologies introduces new telco solutions and services, including Dell Telecom Multi-Cloud Foundation and Dell Open RAN Accelerator, to strengthen the open telecom ecosystem cause and CSP transitions toward open, cloud-native networks. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Dell’s new solutions and services can boost CSP confidence in using distributed server capabilities across multi-cloud architectures, including especially working with Marvell to deliver open, virtualized 5G RAN architectures that are key to accelerating broader open 5G networking.
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Vodafone UK and Oracle Collaborate to Bring Obi-Wan Style Holographic Calls to 5G

In this vignette from The 5G Factor, our Futurum Tech Webcast series devoted to all things 5G, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer explored the collaboration between Vodafone UK and Oracle to accelerate new 5G offerings into the hands of customers, including holographic calls (e.g., Star Wars-style emergency calls to Obi-Wan Kenobi) and uninterrupted game streaming.
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Cisco Throws Hat into Private 5G Network Realm

In this vignette from The 5G Factor, a production of the Futurum Tech Webcast and our series devoted to all things 5G, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer explore Cisco’s entry into the 5G network market aimed primarily at enterprises. We look forward to hearing more on this front from Cisco at MWC in Barcelona next week.
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MWC 2022: Qualcomm and HPE Prep Virtual Distributed Units for 5G Prime Time

Qualcomm and HPE team up to provide virtual distributed unit technology aimed at lowering operator TCO costs and streamlining vRAN/Open RAN deployments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores how the collaboration between Qualcomm and HPE provides the technical differentiators, business relations, and ecosystem influence to help spur Open RAN adoption and put competitive pressure on rivals to up their TCO returns across their RAN portfolios.
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AT&T and DISH Walk Away with Lion’s Share of Andromeda Auction Spectrum Licenses

In this recent episode of The 5G Factor, part of the Futurum Tech Webcast series, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examined the recent FCC Auction 110, also dubbed the Andromeda auction. The auction yielded some $22 billion in bids, with AT&T and Verizon walking away with the lion’s share of the spectrum licenses, with spends of around $9 billion and $7.3 billion respectively.
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The 5G Factor: T-Mobile and Verizon Score at SoFi, Ericsson and 5G Core, 5G Tests for Industrial Robots, Cisco Private 5G, Vodafone and Oracle Pair Up – Futurum Tech Webcast

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast’s series, The 5G Factor, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall talk T-Mobile/Verizon and the Super Bowl, Ericsson’s role in unlocking 5G core and what this means for CSPs, Swedish-based Kollmorgen’s partnership with Ericsson and the results of their testing robots and comparing wifi against 5G in industrial/manufacturing settings, Cisco entering the private 5G market, and Vodafone UK tapping Oracle to spearhead network policy.
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