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February 18, 2022

Ron Westfall

Video Research Note

AT&T and DISH Walk Away with Lion’s Share of Andromeda Auction Spectrum Licenses

In this recent episode of The 5G Factor, part of the Futurum Tech Webcast series, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examined the recent FCC Auction 110, also dubbed the Andromeda auction. The auction yielded some $22 billion in bids, with AT&T and Verizon walking away with the lion’s share of the spectrum licenses, with spends of around $9 billion and $7.3 billion respectively.

February 18, 2022

Ron Westfall

Video Research Note

T-Mobile RE100 Milestone Elevates Clean Energy as a Key Consideration for Mobile Services

For this vignette of a recent episode of The 5G Factor, part of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess T-Mobile’s fulfillment of its mission to source 100% of its total electricity usage with renewable energy (RE100) by the end of 2021. T-Mobile attained this milestone by coordinating a renewable energy strategy that encompassed eight virtual power agreements, 19 retail agreements, one Green Direct program, and unbundled Renewable Energy Certificates that support projects nationwide.

Digital Leadership & CIO, Environmental, Social, Governance, Sustainability, Markets, and Policy

February 16, 2022

Ron Westfall

The 5G Factor

The 5G Factor: T-Mobile and Verizon Score at SoFi, Ericsson and 5G Core, 5G Tests for Industrial Robots, Cisco Private 5G, Vodafone and Oracle Pair Up – Futurum Tech Webcast

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast’s series, The 5G Factor, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall talk T-Mobile/Verizon and the Super Bowl, Ericsson’s role in unlocking 5G core and what this means for CSPs, Swedish-based Kollmorgen’s partnership with Ericsson and the results of their testing robots and comparing wifi against 5G in industrial/manufacturing settings, Cisco entering the private 5G market, and Vodafone UK tapping Oracle to spearhead network policy.

Digital Leadership & CIO

February 14, 2022

Ron Westfall

The 5G Factor

5G and Airports: Much Ado About Nothing, Netcracker and T-Mobile, and AT&T and Dish – Futurum Tech Webcast

In the latest episode of The 5G Factor, a Futurum Research production focused on the 5G ecosystem, latest news and trends, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover Netcracker and T-Mobile expanding their strategic partnership, T-Mobile keeps winning the 5G speed war, AT&T and Dish win big in the Andromeda Auction, and T-Mobile and renewable energy.

Digital Leadership & CIO

February 14, 2022

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

Intel Foundry Services Fully Launches IFS Accelerator to Speed Up Foundry Customer Benefits

Intel’s new Intel Foundry Services Accelerator is unveiled to bring together design ecosystem partners to deliver a complete spectrum of solutions and services for customers’ design requirements. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores how IFA Accelerator combines EDA, IP, and design service capabilities can spur customer silicon innovation and further solidifies Intel’s ability to use its own foundry resources to strengthen its competitive prospects against key rivals like AMD and NVIDIA who must rely on third-party foundries.

Digital Leadership & CIO

February 14, 2022

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

Oracle Database API for MongoDB: Running MongoDB Workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle unveils Oracle Database API for MongoDB targeted at easing the running of MongoDB on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new API helps deliver modern document-centric development benefits, proven enterprise functionality, and a wide range of Autonomous DB benefits such as elasticity, security, and availability to MongoDB users.

Digital Leadership & CIO, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

February 11, 2022

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

Juniper Unveils Juniper Secure Edge to Up SASE Proposition

Juniper unveils Juniper Secure Edge aimed at delivering new capabilities, such as Firewall-as-a-Service, that can ease organization migration to a SASE architecture. Futurum’s Ron Westfall delves into why Juniper Secure Edge provides the single-stack, cloud-delivered security and unified management and visibility key to engendering organization transitioning towards a SASE architecture as well as boosting Juniper’s competitive prospects against major security players like Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco.

Cybersecurity & Resilience, Digital Leadership & CIO

February 9, 2022

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

Clearfield Partners with Utility Telecom to Deliver Eco-Friendly Floating Data Center

Clearfield in partnership with Utility Telecom delivers the fiber management and connectivity solutions critical to Nautilus Data Technologies 7MW floating data center. Futurum’s Ron Westfall addresses how Clearfield’s fiber management and connectivity platforms met the unique demands of the Nautilus data center environment and how its fiber optic portfolio and fiber technology will play an increasingly critical role toward enabling organizations to fulfill their ESG and sustainability goals.

Environmental, Social, Governance, Sustainability, Markets, and Policy

February 8, 2022

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

Oracle Cloud Lift Services Plays Integral Role in Delivering OCI Benefits to 1K+ Organizations

Oracle Cloud Lift Services now supports over 1K organizations in their migration of complex workloads from on-premises to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Futurum’s Ron Westfall delves into why Oracle Cloud Lift Services is instrumental in aiding customers with data lakehouse, data analytics, data science design and migration applications, boosting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s overall influence across the cloud ecosystem.

Digital Leadership & CIO, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

February 2, 2022

Ron Westfall

Futurum Tech Webcast

Examining Marvell’s Key Role in Advancing O-RAN Innovation – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

Marvell Technologies OCTEON Fusion line is developed to deliver processing power combined with the enhanced security, packet processing, and traffic management functions needed to power O-RAN innovation across the 5G ecosystem. Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Marvell’s Joel Brand examine why Marvell’s merchant silicon OCTEON Fusion offering provides the capabilities and silicon-level differentiation key to attaining breakthrough performance and deployment flexibility across O-RAN environments.

Digital Leadership & CIO

January 19, 2022

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

Juniper Evolves its 5G Portfolio and Messaging

Juniper Networks is steadfastly evolving its 5G portfolio development and marketing with emphasis on supporting capabilities such as RIC in driving Open RAN adoption and enabling operator network slicing and use case networking. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Juniper has the portfolio-wide assets in areas such as Metro Cloud, AI, and security to bolster its strategic 5G market message and exercise more influence across the 5G ecosystem in scaling and monetizing operator 5G applications and services.