IBM’s new OpenShift-enabled portfolio offerings ensure the company is a formidable competitor in driving CSP and enterprise adoption of edge computing resources in fast growing 5G environments, obliging rivals to counter IBM’s strengthened edge computing proposition and extensive ecosystem clout.
Ribbon and ECI’s Apollo Product Series Ready to Alter Optical Landscape
Ribbon’s Apollo series innovative optical transport technology delivers the flexible grid differentiators and expanded sales and marketing channels necessary to seriously disrupt the optical transport competitive landscape. Watch out, Ciena.
Mavenir’s OpenRAN Market Validity Swiftly Expands with DISH and Vodafone Idea Deals
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.
MATRIXX Software and AWS Roll Out Digital Transformation Assessments to Spur 5G Monetization
MATRIXX Software, expanding its collaboration with AWS, makes a compelling bid to gain early mindshare in driving the rapidly unfolding CSP, supplier, public cloud collaboration frameworks within emerging 5G environments. Here’s what I think is ahead as it relates to MATRIXX’s next moves as well as the competitive landscape and what to expect on that front.
Netcracker Showcases AWS Relation To Validate Cloud Benefits For CSP Clients
By stepping up industry awareness of its established public cloud relations and portfolio expertise, Netcracker bolsters its ability to fulfill more CSP adoption of cloud platforms in order to catalyze their digital transformation journeys and spur their 5G deployments, especially by 2021. The move is a solid indicator of broader collaboration between cloud providers and telco software suppliers throughout 2020 including potential M&A activity.
FirstNet puts AT&T at the Forefront of Operator Relief Measures Aimed at Overcoming the COVID-19 Crisis
AT&T’s decision makers are demonstrating why the FirstNet platform is playing a pivotal role in meeting the unique challenges of the coronavirus crisis. The COVID-19 crisis will compel mobile operators to make promoting the public safety capabilities of their networks a top development and marketing priority.
HPE’s ODIM aims to Simplify 5G Deployments with Open Source, Vendor Neutral Software
HPE launches the Open Distributed Infrastructure Management initiative as an open source program aimed at easing the complexity of large-scale geographically distributed physical infrastructure deployments in 5G environments, but HPE must show it can outflank the competition in order to generate broad operator support.
Meeting HPC Challenges is a Real Issue in Global Health Crisis
Meeting HPC challenges is a real issue in global health crisis environments. Service providers are encountering HPC-based challenges due to factors such as the expansion of interworking with enterprise HPC platforms and exploring how they can optimize their own HPC investments and builds. Here’s a deeper look at why these HPC adoption challenges matter to the digital ecosystem, including the very real need to rapidly accelerate digital responses to the coronavirus COVID-19 crisis.
Microsoft’s Move to Acquire Affirmed Networks Aims to Deliver New Opps for 5G Ecosystem
Microsoft’s move to acquire Affirmed Networks aims to deliver new opps for the 5G ecosystem. In my opinion, this is exactly the company it needed to make new waves in the 5G ecosystem and firm up its presence with mobile operators in particular. Now it’s up to cloud rivals AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba, IBM, and Oracle to refresh their telecom-specific portfolio development and marketing strategies.
HPE 5G Core Stack: New Opening and Opportunity Targeting the Operator 5G Core
HPE is wagering heavily that service providers are ready to overhaul their mobile cores and purchasing models, especially for nascent 5G environments. HPE’s 5G Core Stack targets accelerating operator monetization of 5G networks, but can the new offering beat a formidable array of competitors and their own cloud-native solutions?