April 12, 2023
The Futurum Group's Ron Westfall examines why the partnership between VMware and Mavenir can both help fuel and benefit from Open RAN’s worldwide market momentum. CSP initiatives, such as fulfilling...
January 23, 2023
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why NEC/Netcracker’s CGF solution using DigitalRoute CGF capabilities is critical to advancing NTT DOCOMO’s 5G monetization goals in key areas, such as streamlining billing processes, advancing...
January 17, 2023
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...
August 10, 2022
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...
July 26, 2022
In this episode of The 5G Factor, a Futurum Tech Webcast focused on news out of the 5G and IoT ecosystems, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall cover news...
July 8, 2022
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why NEC’s acquisition of Aspire Technology strengthen its hand in the nascent Open RAN market segments, boosts sales and marketing prospects for Netcracker, and can help...
October 7, 2021
NEC and Netcracker unveiled an integrated multi-vendor solution with ADVA and Juniper that targets packet optical automation and the streamlining of 5G transport. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the alliance...
July 17, 2021
Microsoft and NEC have established a new multi-year strategic alliance, that synthesizes Azure, Microsoft 365, NEC’s IT and network portfolio resources, including 5G assets, and both companies AI and IoT...
July 2, 2021
Netcracker and NEC announced the deployment of NEC’s 5G Core and Netcracker’s full stack Digital BSS/OSS on AWS to orchestrate and automate 5G digital services and how 5G services and...
June 28, 2021
Rakuten Mobile, NEC, and Intel have attained a performance of 640 Gbps per server for the containerized User Plane Function (UPF) on the containerized 5G Standalone core network. Futurum’s Ron...