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Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess the HPE Automation solution aimed at providing multi-vendor management and automation for any RAN and help CSPs increase operational efficiency and accelerate deployment.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine the collaboration between Mavenir and Aspire Technology to accelerate the market availability of O-RAN split 7:2 compliant RRUs using Aspire’s Open Network Labs in Europe.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine Qualcomm’s contributions and role in strengthening O-RAN security including active support for the O-RAN Security Focus Group and advancing O-RAN architecture and 5G network security benefits.
On this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series, Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall are joined by Richard Licon, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco. Their discussion includes major trends and drivers as well as the main challenges of the swiftly evolving cloud networking market.
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.
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.
In this research report, Futurum Research explores the Cisco Cloud Networking proposition and why it is well-suited for the multi-cloud era, addressing the design, deployment, and operation of a network across and within multiple cloud environments at scale for any application. For IT leaders making decisions about the future of their networks and cloud transformation journeys, the Cisco Cloud Network portfolio should rank high on consideration lists.
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.
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