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Ron Westfall

Mavenir and AMD Ready to OpenBeam Up CSPs to Cloud-Native Networks

Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Mavenir’s new Open RAN OpenBeam Radio and Converged Packet Core initiatives with AMD demonstrate that Mavenir and the mobile ecosystem are maturing and becoming more effective at delivering solutions that can swiftly advance CSP transition toward open, cloud-native network models.
Ron Westfall

Rakuten Symphony Looks to Command 5G RAN Planning with Symworld RAN Commander Unveiling

Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the new Rakuten Symphony Symworld RAN Commander solution is solidly positioned to fulfill CSP radio planning requirements to optimize their 5G network design and expansion by delivering key capabilities such as crowdsourced data, ML, and automation that can efficiently scale planning processes, predict subscriber experiences, and control costs.
Ron Westfall

T-Mobile Q4 2022 & FY 2022: Smashing Milestones and Competition

Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess T-Mobile’s Q4 2022 and FY 2022 results and why the attainment of its highest ever postpaid account net additions as well as postpaid and broadband growth that continue to outflank Verizon and AT&T provide the warrant for its robust 2023 outlook. Factor in T-Mobile for Business’s substantial revenue upside and we find that T-Mobile is solidly positioned to meet new competitive challenges, as well as sufficiently handle any macroeconomic uncertainties that may arise on the horizon.
Ron Westfall

Juniper Q4 2022 and FY 2022 Earnings: Momentum is on Juniper’s Side

Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess Juniper’s financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2022 and why they validate the company is sustaining market-wide momentum and executing its strategic vision under CEO Rami Rahim’s leadership. From their perspective, the results are impressive as Juniper delivered a second consecutive quarter of double-digit YoY growth, a record performance by the enterprise business, and its second-highest cloud revenue quarter.
Ron Westfall

Red Hat and Oracle Strengthen Relationship: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Now Runs on OCI

Futurum’s Ron Westfall reviews the new multi-stage framework of the Red Hat and OCI alliance and why the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on certified configurations of OCI flexible virtual machines can advance their joint customers’ future-forward computing journeys on Red Hat Enterprise Linux while also protecting existing IT investments.
Ron Westfall

Amdocs Launches Subscription Marketplace to Boost CSP Entertainment and Digital Services Packages

Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the SaaS-driven ecosystem of Amdocs Subscription Marketplace diversifies the pre-integrated digital services choices of CSPs to broaden ecosystem collaboration in developing and monetizing more flexible, creative service packages including business/WFH, enhanced entertainment, streaming, security, and storage applications.
Ron Westfall

Juniper Apstra: Taking Multivendor Intent-based Data Center Automation to the Next Level

Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new Juniper Apstra release further sharpens Apstra’s IBN capabilities, especially in providing a unified solution that can streamline the design, development, deployment, and operation of data center networks while continuously validating that the network remans aligned with prioritized business outcomes. This includes bringing together the operations and architecture units, decreasing human capital constraints and reliability concerns while accelerating deployment and activation.
Daniel Newman

Nokia Fiscal Q4 2022 & FY 2022: Demonstrates Impressive Company-wide Progress with Turnaround Mission

Futurum’s Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall assess Nokia’s fiscal Q4 and FY 2022 results highlighted by constant currency full-year net sales growth accelerating to 6% and its impressive Network Infrastructure unit performance in Q4, which grew net sales 14% in constant currency with significant operating margin expansion, all contributing toward a positive 2023 outlook.
Daniel Newman

Intel Q4 2022 and FY 2022 Results: Patience is a Virtue

Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess Intel’s financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 and full year 2022 and why they believe the company is executing the strategy required to improve its overall financial situation, including focus on driving $3 billion in cost reductions in 2023, growing to $8 billion to $10 billion in annualized cost reductions and efficiency gains by the end of 2025, as well as making long game moves to boost prospects in key areas such as IFS, data center, and mobile & gaming platforms.
Ron Westfall

Marvell: Time Has Come Today for Time Sensitive Networking Across Industry 4.0 Networks

Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Marvell’s family of Prestera DX1500 TSN switches combine enterprise-grade visibility tools with accurate visibility of time-sensitive operational technology solutions critical to accelerating adoption of TSN visibility tools and can further boost the addressable market of Marvell’s Secure Deterministic Ethernet solution.
Ron Westfall

Intelligent Edge Demands Make High-Performance Memory and Storage Essential

In our latest research brief, Intelligent Edge Demands Make High-Performance Memory and Storage Essential — done in partnership with Micron — Futurum Analysts Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall explore the intelligent edge ecosystem, the embedded business market, and the technologies that will play an integral role in optimizing edge capabilities now and in the future.
Ron Westfall

Amdocs Delivers Local Breakout to Ease Monetization of 5G Roaming Apps

Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Amdocs Charging provides the retail and wholesale charging systems key to fulfilling the burgeoning monetization goals of the 5G ecosystem. From my perspective, LNO support demonstrates the pivotal role Amdocs Charging can play in delivering the flexible configuration, launch, management, and monitoring capabilities as well as the charging orchestration flow composition and partner integration key to advancing MNO 5G monetization objectives.
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