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In this episode of The 5G Factor, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover what’s new in the 5G ecosystem, including news about T-Mobile and Samsung, Nokia’s refreshed brand and strategy and why that’s significant, Vodafone and Raspberry Pi, and a peek at our findings in our latest market insight report on 5G and Sustainability.
On this episode of The Six Five – CXO, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Lory Thorpe and Luke Ibbetson for a conversation discussing how IBM and Vodafone are working together to create a quantum-safe world for telcos.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the new Vodafone Raspberry Pi-based 5G network prototype is stimulating innovation across the 5G ecosystem, especially across the European SME and MPN segments, demonstrating Vodafone’s new European R&D Center is already producing new thinking and approaches to spurring Open 5G and Open RAN technology deployment as well as strengthening supply chains.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why CSP sustainability initiatives, such as fulfilling government net zero emission targets and mandates, can help accelerate adoption of Open RAN in 2023 and beyond, and how Mavenir is well-positioned to take advantage of CSP sustainability priorities to advance ecosystem-wide Open RAN adoption.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine why Qualcomm and Vodafone joint solution designs aimed at catalyzing Open RAN deployments in Europe are ready to improve power consumption performance to reduce TCO and make networks more environmentally sustainable and why the alliance’s new initiative needs to make Open RAN deployments commercially viable in Europe by the end of 2023 to declare success.
In this episode of The 5G Factor, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall talk Qualcomm and Vodafone on 5G Open RAN, General Dynamics’ new 5G and Edge Accelerator coalition, AWS nabbing the lead in the telco cloud wars, but Oracle and IBM are planting flags, too, and wrap the show with a look at the smart buildings market and what is powering that growth.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines the implications of the evolving Qualcomm and Vodafone partnership in advancing commercial 5G Open RAN deployments, particularly in Europe, by testing and developing 5G Open RAN Infrastructure solutions powered by the Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card and the Qualcomm QRU100 5G RAN Platform.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine how NEC’s acquisition of Aspire Technology augments NEC’ s systems integration offering for Open RAN 5G applications, gaining the expertise and assets needed to deliver increased levels of system design and integration across 5G environments, including especially 5G standalone networks.
In this latest episode of The 5G Factor, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover key trends and news in the 5G market. Today’s conversation featured familiar players in the 5G space, including Ericsson, Vodafone, Qualcomm, and Nokia, as well as a look at what’s happening in the China market as it relates to 5G technology and innovation. We wrapped the show with a discussion about Verizon’s just announced 10-year 5G partnership with the NFL and what’s ahead there — for fans and the league and its players.
Vodafone and Qualcomm are collaborating to advance Open RAN MaMIMO RU and DU Platform assimilation to spur Open RAN deployment and adoption. Futurum’s Ron Westfall surveys the ecosystem implications of the Vodafone and Qualcomm collaboration and why it strengthens the Open RAN cause, particularly in providing the blueprint needed to spur supplier diversification, hasten innovation, and lay the foundation for comprehensive Open 5G networking.
In this hot topic episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Daniel Newman and Ron Westfall examine why 5G security warrants its own special requirements and considerations, what service providers need to do to make 5G security impregnable, the key use cases, the significance of endpoint security, the role of the 5G ecosystem, and why now is the time for action.
Mavenir’s dual deals with DISH and Vodafone Idea validate its ability to deliver OpenRAN solutions that fulfill essential operator strategic technical and business objectives in both 4G and 5G environments, raising the OpenRAN competitive stakes across the entire 4G/5G ecosystem.

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