Regularly hosted by Ron Westfall, The 5G Factor covers the latest news in communications networks to help you navigate the landscape of mobile and cloud technologies, edge networking, data networking, CSP networks, orchestration, and more.
April 10, 2024
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Olivier Blanchard review potential indicators of improving 5G prospects in 2024 including Samsung’s surging Q1 2024 financial results amid AI’s rising tide, growing worldwide...
April 3, 2024
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Tom Hollingsworth review the major AI RAN and Telco AI developments including the ecosystem impact of the AI-RAN Alliance launch, HEAVY.AI’s progress in the...
March 29, 2024
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Olivier Blanchard review the nascent market impact of Telco GenAI including BT Group using Amazon Code Whisperer to provide GenAI coding assistance to its...
March 25, 2024
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Tom Hollingsworth review the top cloud and telco takeaways from MWC 2024 consisting of Red Hat and Tech Mahindra’s hybrid cloud alliance advances, Red...
March 19, 2024
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall reviews the top Open RAN takeaways from MWC 2024 consisting of Ericsson Cloud RAN portfolio advances, Nokia’s anyRAN market readiness including anyRAN for enterprise partnerships...
March 13, 2024
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Olivier Blanchard review their key takeaways from Mobile World Congress 2024 across the semiconductor and device realms including Micron’s memory and storage advances with...
February 22, 2024
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall examines key new 5G alliances that he sees as having the most impact pre-MWC24 including Dell and Nokia teaming up to advance private 5G network...
February 15, 2024
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Olivier Blanchard scrutinize key innovations leading into 2024 and MWC 24 including how on-device AI will begin to reset expectations for everyday tech products’...
February 6, 2024
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores key 5G AI and GenAI move to watch in 2024 including GSMA IBM collaboration on assisting telco AI adoption using IBM’s watsonx platform and...
January 31, 2024
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall explores key 5G ecosystem innovations to watch in 2024 including DTaaS readiness for global 5G deployments, the Multi-G initiative’s boost from major players, and Wind...
January 24, 2024
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Todd R Weiss review review of the top market shapers in the 5G sustainability realm, why Ciena, Cisco, Ericsson, Juniper, and Nokia excel at...
January 18, 2024
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Olivier Blanchard review key CES 2024 announcements such as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Digital Chassis innovations and Stellantis, Blackberry, and AWS collaboration focused on advancing virtual...
