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Nokia and Google Smartly Advance 4G/5G Network Slicing

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the Nokia Google collaboration to deliver network slicing capabilities to Android 13 devices, such as Google Pixel 6 (Pro), can provide the network slicing innovations key to unlocking CSP delivery of innovative use case-specific 4G/5G services and applications.

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Marvell Sustains Impressive Market Momentum with Robust Q2 Fiscal 2023 Financial Results

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman examine Marvell Technologies financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 and why they confirm Marvell as a major player across the semiconductor space that exercises considerable ecosystem influence and is impressively adept at capitalizing on secular growth drivers across the data infrastructure, cloud, 5G/operator, enterprise, and auto market segments which help power the company’s long-term investment and growth prospects.

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Cradlepoint Sees the Point of 5G, SD-WAN, and Zero Trust Harmonization

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Cradlepoint’s NetCloud Exchange cloud-native solution provides the policy-driven, zero-trust capabilities that can augment emerging enterprise 5G experiences and WAN services with SD-WAN and Zero Trust through the flexible delivery of multiple SD-WAN and security services bolstered by the backing of Ericsson’s 5G portfolio expertise and global channel resources.

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Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung Do Airtel New 5G Deals in India

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses how Airtel’s new 5G pacts with Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung affirm the rising competitive prospects for the trio across the global 5G ecosystem, including especially 5G RAN solutions, due to factors such as Airtel and the India’s entry into the 5G market, the wide-ranging ban on China-made equipment in key markets, and Open RAN’s evolving readiness for prime time 5G deployments.

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Arista Acquires Pluribus Networks to Raise Cloud Networking Proposition to the Next Sphere

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Arista’s acquisition of Pluribus Networks strengthen its hand in the fast-evolving cloud networking realm, boosts sales & marketing prospects and portfolio differentiation for its Converged Cloud Fabric and new Arista Unified Cloud Fabric proposition, strengthen its NVIDIA relationship, and can help advance adoption and deployment across the NetOps, DevOps, and CloudOps domains of intricate cloud networking environments.

Qualcomm and Samsung Up Their Alliance with Seven-Year Extension of Patent Licensing Agreement

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why the reaffirmation and expansion of the Qualcomm and Samsung partnership, including a seven-year patent licensing extension and Snapdragon platform collaboration in co-developing future Galaxy mobile devices, provides mobile ecosystem supply chain stability amidst recent turbulence due to global pandemic and geopolitical factors and provides a marked contrast to the Qualcomm Apple patent licensing relationship.