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AT&T and University of Tennessee Partner to Bring 5G Testbed to Knoxville Campus

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Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer covers the announcement by AT&T and University of Tennessee on their partnership to build a 5G testbed to its Knoxville campus testing the expansion of mmWave 5G to rural areas. This partnership will afford students expanded learning opportunities and the ability to experiment and learn in situations that would otherwise be cost prohibitive or impossible due to location. UT joins Texas A&M, the University of Connecticut and the University of Missouri who likewise have partnerships with AT&T, although this partnership between AT&T and UT is primarily focused on mmWave and MEC applications.

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Mavenir Acquires Telestax to Expand 5G Monetization Opportunities through CPaaS Tech

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Mavenir buys Telestax to bolster Mavenir Engage, Mavenir’s omnichannel messaging monetization and customer engagement offering through Telestax CPaaS capabilities. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the Telestax acquisition bolsters Mavenir’s portfolio in the 5G and API enablement realms as well as enable Mavenir to swiftly attain differentiation in the heavily crowded CPaaS market segment through 5G/mobile portfolio differentiators.

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Splunk Q2 Highlights Progress in its Cloud Transformation

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Futurum Research Principal Analyst Daniel Newman and Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provide their take on Splunk’s Q2 earnings announcement. The company is shuffling the executive deck, making strategic investments to bolster its security portfolio and also transition to a recurring revenue based on workload pricing, rather than data ingestion and seems to be executing on all fronts given the strong numbers for Q2.

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IBM Launches New Telum Processor

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IBM announces the upcoming new IBM Telum Processor. Telum is IBM’s first processor that contains on-chip acceleration for AI inferencing. Futurum’s Daniel Newman discusses this new on-chip hardware acceleration. It’s designed to help customers achieve business insights at scale across banking, finance, trading, insurance applications and customer interactions.