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Ron Westfall

Clearfield Shows the Integral Role Fiber Plays in 5G Evolution

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses why Clearfield’s fiber backhaul portfolio capabilities can play an integral role in enabling the higher capacity and low bit error rate for 5G backhaul that is key to assuring multi-gigabit (10 Gbps+) performance and ultra-low latency across expanding 5G SA implementations. The steady expansion of 5G SA implementations amid the overall growth of worldwide 5G deployments will fuel more demand and need for Clearfield fiber optic connectivity and management technology across fast-growing 5G backhaul environments.
Daniel Newman

Marvell Fiscal Q1 2024: AI and ASICs are Marvell’s Shining Stars

The Futurum Group’s Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall examine why Marvell turned in an impressive fiscal Q1 2024 fueled by rapidly burgeoning ecosystem-wide demand for AI and expanding demand for custom ASICs in the enterprise networking segment as its Nova product is ready to meet the bandwidth boom clouds are facing and the company’s 3nm portfolio can broaden and catalyze data infrastructure market adoption of Marvell interconnect, SerDes, and parallel interface features.
Ron Westfall

Juniper and ServiceNow Deliver AI-powered Automation Now

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall examines why the union of Juniper’s AI-driven network automation with ServiceNow’s service management capabilities can drive broader adoption and deployment of end-to-end automation throughout managed service provider and enterprise network build and operational environments.
Ron Westfall

5G Factor: Nokia’s Progress in the Fed Market, FCC Says No to Dish, Ericsson and 5G Core, and Cisco and NTT Help Orgs Advance Sustainability Goals

In this week’s episode of The 5G Factor, The Futurum Group analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover Nokia’s progress in the Fed market, FCC’s decision on 12 GHz spectrum that impacts Starlink and Dish, Ericsson and what the company is doing collaboratively with 5G core, and the partnership between NTT and Cisco designed to serve customers by using NTT’s Edge as a Service portfolio and Cisco’s IoT capabilities, helping organizations advance their sustainability goals.
Ron Westfall

Ericsson Uplifts OSS/BSS-driven Service Exposure: The API Monetization Dimension

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses why Vonage’s plans to support enhanced security services as vital to fulfilling Ericsson’s vision of further tightening the integration of CSP OSS/BSS to improve collaboration with partners and enterprises in exposing services that uses the API aggregation capabilities key to producing enduring service creation and monetization.
Ron Westfall

The Future of AI is Hybrid: Look No Further than Your Devices to Scale Generative AI

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall assesses Qualcomm’s outlook that hybrid AI is essential to the future AI as the hybrid AI architecture distributes and administers AI workloads among cloud and edge devices, rather than processing in the cloud only, enabling the cloud and edge devices, including smartphones, IoT devices, and PCs to work together at providing more powerful, efficient, and highly optimized AI.
Daniel Newman

Cisco Q3 2023: Cloud, AI, and Security Fuel Record Revenue and Double-Digit Software and Subscription Revenue Growth

The Futurum Group’s Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall examine Cisco’s Q3 2023 results and why they believe Cisco demonstrated continued progress on its business model transformation, with total software revenue being up 18% YoY and software subscription revenue up 17% YoY, and that Cisco is solidly positioned to drive ecosystem-wide innovation and adoption across the rapidly evolving cloud, AI, and security realms.
Ron Westfall

Futurum Tech Webcast — A Light on Cloud Infrastructure: How Marvell is Scaling AI with New Optical DSP

Marvell Technologies Nova extends the multi-source pluggable optics ecosystem and provides the advanced technology needed to alleviate data center network bottlenecks as the industry transitions to 51.2 Tbps networking architectures. Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Marvell’s Nigel Alvares explore why Marvell’s new Nova offering, a 1.6T PAM4 DSP optimized for high-performance fabrics in AI/ML environments, delivers breakthroughs in optical connectivity by enabling the highest speed of data movement in cloud AI/ML and data center networks.
Ron Westfall

Google I/O 2023: PaLM 2 Debut Shows Language Model Progress Although Toxicity, Economic and Environmental Concerns Abound

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores why Google PaLM 2, while showing improvements in key areas, remains very much a work in progress due to factors such as alarmingly high toxicity rates as well as the economic and environmental implications of scaling language models and generative AI, requiring Google to directly address of the full range of concerns to assure sustained PaLM 2 progress.
Ron Westfall

Compute Made for Analytics: The Key to Solving for the Compute Performance Gap

In this research brief, which was done in partnership with NeuroBlade, Senior Analyst Ron Westfall explores the current data analytics environment and the obstacles surrounding the growing need for efficient and cost-effective solutions to these issues.
Ron Westfall

Spectrum Enterprise and Cisco Give Business Cybersecurity Protection Ease and SASE Appeal

The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores why Spectrum Enterprise, in collaboration with Cisco, can fulfill the topmost cybersecurity demands of businesses through the new enhanced cybersecurity options backed by its service support acumen. Both Managed Network Edge and Enterprise Network Edge include professional integration and management to assist IT teams layer the new cybersecurity capabilities into their network, which can prove critical in the initial adoption of a SASE architecture.
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