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.
A Review Of The Key Fiber Technology Advances That Are Powering 5G Ecosystem Innovations Across xHaul, Mobile Backhaul, And RAN Technologies
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Todd Weiss examine fiber’s vital role in 5G builds and innovation, including how Nokia, Ciena, and Calix fiber portfolio capabilities boost 5G deployments and capabilities.
A Review Of Key AI/Automotive Innovations by Qualcomm and Ethernovia Including The Selection Of The Snapdragon Platform For The 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Olivier Blanchard look into the key developments across on-device AI, automobile zonal architectures, and SDV/EV innovations that recently impacted the 5G ecosystem.
A Look into Recent vRAN Developments and How Key Players such as Marvell, Intel, Ericsson, Samsung, and Nokia Have Juiced vRAN Innovation
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Todd Weiss assess the major developments across vRAN technology including Intel’s vRAN Boost innovation, Samsung committing to vRAN Boost, Ericsson using Intel 18A, and Marvell/Nokia moves.
A delve into the 5G ecosystem-wide top priority of sustainability and how the carriers are advancing sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Steven Dickens examine how the major 5G carriers are advancing their 5G sustainability and ESG goals with Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange, and Telefonica shining.
A delve into recent CSP developments including the 2023 CapEx outlook, T-Mobile’s new 5G four-carrier aggregation capabilities, and Q2 2023 financial results
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Todd Weiss examine the key developments across the communications service provider (CSP) market with a dive into 2023 and future CapEx trends, T-Mobile’s addition of new 5G four-carrier aggregation capabilities, and the implications of the fiscal Q2 2023 results from AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Clint Wheelock examine the impact AI is having throughout the 5G ecosystem addressing Qualcomm’s view that the future of AI is hybrid with 5G Advanced making AI integral to 5G innovation, why Nokia’s new AI-infused AirScale portfolio boosts its O-RAN and Cloud RAN proposition and 5G Advanced readiness, and NVIDIA and Softbank’s collaboration on a platform for generative AI and 5G/6G apps based on the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Clint Wheelock explore how chipmakers are powering innovation across the 5G ecosystem including Qualcomm advocacy of operators accelerating their 5G Standalone implementations to spur wider developer interest, Juniper and Intel working together on Juniper’s Beyond Labs initiative to foster 5G transformation, and Samsung and Mediatek demonstrating 3Tx antenna capabilities key to spurring 5G uplink performance and experience.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Steve Dickens examine why the cloud plays a major role across recent 5G ecosystem moves including Red Hat becoming the primary infrastructure platform for Nokia's core network applications, Azure for Operators 5G modern connected application at the edge push, and the completion of the HPE acquisition of Athonet.
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.
In this episode of The 5G Factor, The Futurum Group’s Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall look at the recent developments in the 5G ecosystem including Dish slowing 5G spend and also attempting to throw a wrench in T-Mobile’s spectrum purchase, the politicization of the spectrum auctions and the impact on the 5G ecosystem, and the recent availability on AWS of Qvantel’s new Flexx BSS and how that is designed to help CSPs path to monetization.
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.
Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall’s latest episode of The 5G Factor takes a deep dive into Juniper Cloud Metro and the role it can play in 5G evolution.
