Category: Communications Networks

Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines how T-Mobile’s Advanced Network Solutions (ANS) launch benefits from its collaboration with Dell, Ericsson, and Nokia in delivering public network, hybrid mobile network, and private network options and capabilities as well as bolsters T-Mobile’s overall 5G private networks and mobile edge compute portfolio proposition.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Nokia’s MX Boost technology addresses the growing demand across Industry 4.0 connectivity environments for private wireless capabilities that can flexibly bond 4.9G/5G with Wi-Fi, strengthens its private wireless network portfolio, and can help accelerate key emerging use cases such as Wi-Fi 6 + Wi-Fi 6E and LTE/5G + Wi-Fi 6E.
In the last decade or so, we’ve seen a huge push to improve mobility in and around urban centers. With the introduction of autonomous driving and urban air mobility, we will see greater economic opportunity through more cost-effective access to urban centers and increased human mobility.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Qualcomm’s new Qualcomm Robotics RB6 Platform and RB5 AMR Reference Design provide the technological foundation and building blocks to power innovation throughout industries that are planning to optimize robotics through emerging 5G and AI capabilities distributed across the connected intelligent edge.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the T-Mobile Cradlepoint alliance can help streamline business adoption of 5G FWA services nationwide, boost differentiation of the T-Mobile Business Internet service offering, and provide additional warrant for Ericsson’s 2020 acquisition of Cradlepoint.
Futurum analysts Michael Diamond and Shelly Kramer examine the recently announced partnership between T-Mobile and Lucid, and how T-Mobile IoT connectivity is being integrated into Lucid’s next-gen commercial spray cleaning drones and what that means for the commercial cleaning industry.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the new HPE RAN Automation solution fulfills top-priority operator demand for multi-vendor management and automation across increasingly intricate RAN environments and shows how HPE can make inroads across emerging cloud-native, open source 5G environments by supporting RAN automation in alignment with managing overall edge infrastructure.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Casa Systems supplying 5G Core Network Functions to support Verizon’s public MEC service offering coupled with Verizon’s $40 million equity investment in Casa Common Stock bolster Casa Systems overall 5G ecosystem credibility and demonstrates how 5G openness and architecture can give operators more supplier flexibility in building out their 5G networks.
Futurum’s principal analyst Shelly Kramer responds to T-Mobile’s initiative to test Wi-Fi capabilities and performance within unlicensed portions of the 6 GHz band spectrum, with analysis of the company’s intentions and innovative potential.
In this episode of The 5G Factor, a Futurum Tech Webcast focused on all things 5G, analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall take a look at what’s happening across the 5G ecosystem. Today’s show focused on partnerships and 5G focused initiatives between AT&T and Northrop Grumman, Intel and Lockheed, Mavenir and Aspire, Cisco and Verizon, along with a look at Qualcomm’s efforts in providing security requirements and best practices for the O-RAN Alliance, and news of the $600M award by the DoD to vendors including AT&T, Ericsson, Nokia, Federated Wireless, and others earmarked for 5G testbed R&D.
Excerpt: In this video vignette from a recent episode of The 5G Factor, our series devoted to all things 5G, analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall discuss The 5G Preliminary Challenge, a 5G competition conceived by the NTIA and the U.S. Department of Defense, designed to spur the development of 5G, with a total prize purse of up to $3 million to be awarded.
Qualcomm contributes five key inventions, consisting of mmWave expansion, NR-Light, device enhancements, non-terrestrial networks, and topology expansion, to advance 5G ecosystem adoption of the recently completed 3GGP Release 17 specification. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the five inventions strengthen emerging 5G use cases, such as dedicated private networks, wearables, industrial sensors, video surveillance, global asset tracking, satellite communications, and public safety, and reinforces Qualcomm’s reputation for consistently delivering 5G ecosystem-wide innovation.

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