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Ron Westfall

Marvell Crystallizes its Custom ASIC Portfolio and Market Message

Marvell’s new Custom ASIC portfolio unveiling showcases Marvell’s successful and rapid execution of the Avera Semi execute acquisition, fortifying the company’s goal of becoming the one-stop semiconductor infrastructure provider for its customers and partners. Through differentiation in key areas such as continuous delivery of IP and advanced technology across its top-priority market segments and executing first-time right capabilities across a dynamic range of business models, Marvell is ready to move the market needle ore, especially in the customer ASIC and data infrastructure semiconductor market segments.
Ron Westfall

ATX’s GigaXtend Readies Cable Operators for the 50Gbps 2050 Party

ATX’s GigaXtend portfolio affords cable operators the opportunity to revitalize their outside plants with technology purpose-built to enable and accelerate emerging spectrum increases of 1.8GHz and beyond. By targeting the most pressing cable operator demands and landing the Cisco agreement, ATX can plausibly tout its new family of amplifiers is built on a trusted technology pedigree with the reputation for performance and reliability needed to fulfill the demands of DOCSIS 4.0 and ultimately the 2050 vision of fiber-based 500 Gbps services.
Ron Westfall

Fortinet Gets More SASE with OPAQ Acquisition

Fortinet gains a time-to-market advantage over ZTNA providers that lack Fortinet’s portfolio range since their solutions leave more exposure and unprotected gaps in the attack surface, extending peace of mind to Fortinet’s customers. Also Fortinet’s boosts its R&D brain trust in driving broader ZTNA innovation within SASE environments, enabling it to move the competitive needle in the nascent SASE market.
Ron Westfall

Analog Devices Acquires Maxim in an Underwhelming $21 Billion Bet

ADI is heading into headwinds in attaining full value from the network infrastructure silicon portion of the Maxim portfolio and is dealing with significant supply chain assimilation challenges, thereby dampening the upside of the overall deal. ADI needs to prioritize touting new wins in the network infrastructure segment (i.e., data center, 5G communications) post-merger to allay addressable market concerns and likewise rapidly implement its supply chain optimization strategy.
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.
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