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Ron Westfall

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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5G and Airports: Much Ado About Nothing, Netcracker and T-Mobile, and AT&T and Dish – Futurum Tech Webcast

In the latest episode of The 5G Factor, a Futurum Research production focused on the 5G ecosystem, latest news and trends, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover Netcracker and T-Mobile expanding their strategic partnership, T-Mobile keeps winning the 5G speed war, AT&T and Dish win big in the Andromeda Auction, and T-Mobile and renewable energy.
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Intel Foundry Services Fully Launches IFS Accelerator to Speed Up Foundry Customer Benefits

Intel’s new Intel Foundry Services Accelerator is unveiled to bring together design ecosystem partners to deliver a complete spectrum of solutions and services for customers’ design requirements. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores how IFA Accelerator combines EDA, IP, and design service capabilities can spur customer silicon innovation and further solidifies Intel’s ability to use its own foundry resources to strengthen its competitive prospects against key rivals like AMD and NVIDIA who must rely on third-party foundries.
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Oracle Database API for MongoDB: Running MongoDB Workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle unveils Oracle Database API for MongoDB targeted at easing the running of MongoDB on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new API helps deliver modern document-centric development benefits, proven enterprise functionality, and a wide range of Autonomous DB benefits such as elasticity, security, and availability to MongoDB users.
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Juniper Unveils Juniper Secure Edge to Up SASE Proposition

Juniper unveils Juniper Secure Edge aimed at delivering new capabilities, such as Firewall-as-a-Service, that can ease organization migration to a SASE architecture. Futurum’s Ron Westfall delves into why Juniper Secure Edge provides the single-stack, cloud-delivered security and unified management and visibility key to engendering organization transitioning towards a SASE architecture as well as boosting Juniper’s competitive prospects against major security players like Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco.
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