Category: 5G

August 10, 2022

Ron Westfall

Video Research Note

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.

5G, Communications Networks

August 4, 2022

Ron Westfall

The 5G Factor

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.

5G, Communications Networks, Workplace Collaboration

August 4, 2022

Ron Westfall

Research Note

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.

5G, Communications Networks

August 3, 2022

Ron Westfall

Research Note

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.

July 29, 2022

Ron Westfall

Research Note

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.

5G, Workplace Collaboration

July 28, 2022

Daniel Newman

Research Note

Qualcomm Q3 2022 Revenue Hits $10.9B, Beating Estimates

Futurum analysts Daniel Newman and Todd R. Weiss cover Qualcomm Q3 2022 earnings, where revenue hit $10.9B, beating estimates and leading the 5G and mobile chipmaker in a strong performance against growing market headwinds.

5G, Processors, Semiconductors and Components

July 26, 2022

Ron Westfall

The 5G Factor

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.

5G, Communications Networks

July 25, 2022

Ron Westfall

Research Note

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.

5G, Communications Networks, Workplace Collaboration

July 21, 2022

Ron Westfall

The 5G Factor

The 5G Factor: RFFE Technology – An Essential for 5G Ecosystem Product Development and Innovation

In this episode of The 5G Factor, our webcast series here at Futurum Research where we discuss all things related to 5G and the IoT ecosystems, host Shelly Kramer is joined by Christian Block Senior VP and GM of RF Front End (RFFE) for Qualcomm. They kicked off our conversation by hearing a little about Christian’s back ground, his work in RF Front End, and what led him to Qualcomm Technologies.

5G, Digital Transformation

July 19, 2022

Daniel Newman

Six Five Webcast

We are LIVE! Talking Google, Tesla, IBM, Apple, Qualcomm, & GlobalFoundries – The Six Five Webcast

We are LIVE! Talking Google, Tesla, IBM, Apple, Qualcomm, & GlobalFoundries. A new episode of The Six Five Webcast with hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman.