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Daniel Newman

The Future of 5G Network Infrastructure and Edge Computing – The Six Five Insiders Edition

In this new episode of the Six Five - Insiders’ Edition, co-hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead talk with Intel’s Dan C Rodriguez about the state of 5G network infrastructure and edge computing including where we are likely to go in the future.
Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Blanchard

5G Milestone: Verizon, Ericsson and Qualcomm Join Forces to Demonstrate Peak Speeds of 5 Gbps Data Speeds for First Time

Verizon, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies join forces to demonstrate 5G peak speeds of 5.06 Gbps for the first time.
Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Blanchard

Report: Huawei and Chinese Government Allegedly Working Together to Undermine 4G, 5G Network Equipment Competitors in Key Markets

Huawei’s dominant position as the leading network solution provider in terms of market share is very much premised on the fact that, with the subsidies they are receiving from the Chinese state, they can sell their hardware equipment at a “ridiculously low price point.”
Ron Westfall

ADTRAN Updates and Sharpens Channel Partner Program

ADTRAN is fulfilling partner demand for a more agile channel program, through streamlined partner and discount levels, that minimizes complexity and helps drive profitability. For more than 15 years, ADTRAN has established the corporate DNA and customer trust required to drive its updated Channel Partner Program to success in meeting the fast evolving networking demands of enterprises and SMBs in emerging hybrid cloud and 5G environments.
Daniel Newman

Intel Updates 5G Network Infrastructure To Focus on $25 Billion Market

Today, Intel announced a series of updates to its 5G Network Infrastructure as it seeks to gain market share in this $25 Billion dollar market.
Shelly Kramer

The Digital Divide: Where is the Telco Industry in its Journey to Closing That Divide? — Futurum Tech Webcast

In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall explore the digital divide and where the telco industry is in its journey to closing that divide. Their conversation highlighted key funding programs available to support telcos and service providers, along with initiatives vendors like Cisco, ADTRAN, Ericsson, Nokia, Netcracker, and Marvell are doing to both spur innovation and support service providers in this next journey of their evolution.
Ron Westfall

MATRIXX Software Provides Cloud Native Keys to Innovative 5G Charging

MATRIXX is gaining a time-to-market advantage in capturing mind share among CSPs during the early stages of their cloud native charging implementations through the latest cloud native enhancements to MATRIXX Digital Commerce. At least rivals will now need to stress their portfolio development goals in supporting CNCF graduated projects such as Prometheus and Fluentd to lessen MATRIXX’s ability to gain a differentiation edge. Now MATRIXX must show it can translate early mind share gains into tangible market share gains against foes in the 5G CCS and BSS realms.
Ron Westfall

Nokia Zeroes in on Boosting 5G Operations Efficiency

Nokia’s Cognitive SON targets aiding service providers in their quest to efficiently manage 5G complexity through ML-powered low-touch automation and real-time resolution of operations problems. Now Nokia must show its well-differentiated SON solution will become a difference maker in accelerating CSP 5G builds as well as bolstering the company’s 5G competitive outcomes.
Ron Westfall

ADTRAN Goes FWA to Broaden Residential Broadband Mass Appeal

ADTRAN’s new MetNet 60GHz solution is providing exactly what CSPs require to push residential broadband to their most challenging to serve customers and environments. ADTRAN’s MetNet 60 GHz solution is not gated by the underlying physical infrastructure, which has limited the deployment range of fixed access broadband technologies like FTTH. Fixed wireless services are becoming an invaluable compliment to fiber and fiber extension networks in terms of reaching any potential residential or business customer with gigabit capable services, no matter where they are located.
Sarah Wallace

Cisco and ServiceNow Integrate for Workplace Contact Tracing — An Opportunity and a Challenge

Cisco and ServiceNow collaborate by integrating Cisco's indoor location services platform, DNA Spaces, with ServiceNow's contact tracing and workplace safety application. The vendors’ goal is to improve contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are no doubt some challenges ahead, but this integration also presents some customer acquisition opportunities for both companies that make this partnership interesting.
Ron Westfall

ONF Preps SD-RAN for Open Source 5G Prime Time

ONF’s new SD-RAN project is a work in progress after a flourishing start. Founding members, including especially major operators AT&T, China Mobile, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, and NTT, need to demonstrate their mobile ecosystem clout and pull through more support from key industry players such as Open RAN and 5G chipset suppliers. Overall ONF has the ecosystem pull and open source pedigree required to make the SD-RAN project a long-term success.
Ron Westfall

Clearfield Clears More Field for 5G and Broadband with StreetSmart Portfolio Expansion

Clearfield is enabling CSPs to cost-effectively drive fiber deeper into their networks, particularly in support of 5G. The new StreetSmart Small Count Fiber Hand-off Box allows CSPs to use an easy-to-deploy, slim form-factor to support protected hand off from fixed to mobile connections in demanding 5G and DAS environments. Clearfield’s steady quarterly and year-over-year growth, based on fiscal Q3 results, among its three largest customer segments – community broadband providers, national carriers, and cable operators – attests to its ability to consistently deliver differentiated fiber management solutions against formidable competition as well as meet new CSP fiber management requirements amidst the distinct challenges of the global C-19 pandemic.
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