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Ron Westfall

AT&T Uses Cisco Secure SD-WAN Technology to Fulfill Growing Digital Workforce Demands but Now Must Get SASE

The AT&T and Cisco partnership affirms that service providers are improving their SD-WAN offerings, particularly addressing the security concerns among enterprise adopters. Now AT&T and Cisco must show their integrated approach will accelerate broader adoption of SD-WAN services in the emerging SASE and 5G era.
Ron Westfall

Hansen Provision Release 7.0 Ups Hansen’s Native-Cloud and 5G Game

With the Hansen Provision Release 7.0 debut, Hansen enhances its Create-Sell-Deliver portfolio and now offers the cloud-native fulfillment capabilities key to increasing its presence in the global operator space, especially in microservices-driven 5G environments and powering potential operator expansion into verticals such as energy and utilities.
Ron Westfall

ADTRAN’s Mosaic Augments Fast Evolving In-Home Experience in COVID-19 Era

ADTRAN should contemplate recruiting broader telco support for the cable-dominated Plume initiative to further strengthen its Mosaic portfolio, reassuring a wider swath of telcos of Plume’s long-term viability in powering their own customer experience innovations in telco environments throughout the COVID-19 and 5G epoch.
Ron Westfall

New Research: RPA is Essential to Fulfilling Organization-wide Strategic Business Objectives

Futurum Research, in partnership with UiPath, completed a global research study of 500+ high-level business and technology executives directly responsible for the planning, management, and use of automation technologies to better comprehend the RPA journeys organizations must undertake to successfully achieve their strategic business objectives. Here’s what we found.
Ron Westfall

Cisco Live! — Cisco’s Internet for the Future is Meeting COVID-19 and Digital Divide Challenges Today

Cisco’s Internet for the Future is developed to address alarming digital divide gaps and playing a pivotal role in scaling Critical Infrastructure during global crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. However, still Cisco needs to foster partnerships across businesses, governments, and institutions with strong commitments in order to move the needle in making the Internet more universally accessible.
Ron Westfall

Netcracker Enhanced Security Plan Unleashes Good Security Practices for CSPs

Netcracker’s Enhanced Security enables service providers to adopt the comprehensive security framework required to automate and adapt the E2E security best-suited for their own networks as well as fulfill their enterprise customer ironclad 5G security expectations.
Ron Westfall

5G Security: The Essential Key to 5G Fortunes – Futurum Tech Webcast

In this hot topic episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall examine why 5G security warrants its own special requirements and considerations, what service providers need to do to make 5G security impregnable, the key use cases, the significance of endpoint security, the role of the 5G ecosystem, and why now is the time for action.
Ron Westfall

Netcracker 2020 Galvanizes Service Provider Digital Transformation Renaissance

Netcracker 2020 is redesigned and upgraded to accelerate the top-priority transformation goals of CSPs including personalization of digital services, customization of B2B commerce, secure multi-cloud flexibility, agile partner management, and broader automation. Through Netcracker 2020 adoption, CSPs become firmly positioned to play a far more strategic and central role across the digital value chain. Netcracker’s rivals must take heed.
Ron Westfall

DXC’s Q4 and Fiscal 2020 Results: The Good, The Bad, and the Takeaways

DXC’s Q4 and fiscal 2020 results indicate the company is making progress righting the ship under new CEO Michael Savino, containing revenue runoff due primarily to dissatisfactory customer delivery and diminishing customer relationships before his arrival. While COVID-19 uncertainties played in a role in DXC’s decision to suspend quarterly dividends, this could also allow the company to showcase how its ITO portfolio is well-suited to enabling clients overcome COVID-19 challenges.
Ron Westfall

HAS2020: Huawei Service and Software Sees Salesforce as CSP Digital Transformation Fix

Huawei Service and Software must contend with complicated sales cycles in key markets across North America, Europe, East Asia, Oceania, and elsewhere, due to geopolitical factors, despite the built-in competitive merits of applying the Salesforce digital ecosystem blueprint to drive CSP digital transformation.
Ron Westfall

Ericsson’s USA 5G Smart Factory: 5G Supply Chain Maverick

Ericsson’s USA 5G Smart Factory is addressing the strategic goal of U.S. policymakers in assuring the long-term manufacturing and supply chain reliability of essential 5G RAN technology. As alternative Open RAN technology gains maturity and valuable deployment credentials in major operator 5G deployments, Ericsson is also well-positioned to drive and support Open RAN as the market conditions become more favorable as well as decisive from its competitive landscape perspective.
Ron Westfall

Microsoft Azure Scoops up Metaswitch in Bid to Make Azure the Meta-5G Edge Cloud

Microsoft Azure is making the solid bet that the dual acquisitions of Metaswitch and Affirmed Networks will strengthen the Azure portfolio in providing virtualized network software and voice/data/unified communications solutions aimed at operator 5G edge hybrid cloud demands, but must show its ongoing portfolio expansion will not scare off many potential CSP customers and supplier partners.
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