April 2018

NFV World Congress – Nokia, NEC/netcracker, Google, CenturyTel Highlights

Keynotes at the NFV World & Zero-Touch Congress in San Jose, California were very interesting today.  We share our observations and view of the main themes from these interesting presentations by Nokia, NEC/Netcracker, Google, CenturyTel.  The main theme of these presentations, we think, is this:  NFV/SDN is now deeply in… Read More »NFV World Congress – Nokia, NEC/netcracker, Google, CenturyTel Highlights

Huawei Analyst Meeting Recap – a Big Focus on Artificial Intelligence and a Downplay of 5G

Eric Xu, Rotating Deputy Chairman of Huawei addressing audience questions at the Huawei Analyst Summit 2018 ​The main theme of the the Huawei HAS 2018 meeting keynotes was Artificial Intelligence and, secondarily, nearly ubiquitous networks connections across the world.  Huawei expects 86% of enterprises to have experimented with AI by… Read More »Huawei Analyst Meeting Recap – a Big Focus on Artificial Intelligence and a Downplay of 5G

NetApp Analyst Meeting – Focused on Hyperconverged, All Flash Array and Public Cloud Software

At NetApp’s analyst meeting today, CEO George Kurian sees opportunity in selling HCI (introduced F2Q18, 4-5 months ago), AFA, share-taking in SAN, and public cloud software and services.  Every large customer NetApp talks to, according to Kurian, is using multiple cloud service providers and/or SaaS services and most are using the… Read More »NetApp Analyst Meeting – Focused on Hyperconverged, All Flash Array and Public Cloud Software

Mavenir Analyst Briefing – UCaaS, RCS Monetization, xRAN & 5G markets

Mavenir held a ‘virtual’ analyst meeting – essentially a webinar – that conveyed the company’s efforts on several new initiatives: (a) SMB UCaaS – small business unified communications, (b) Messaging as a Platform (MaaP), (c) Monetization of messaging, (d) Security Solutions (relating to toll fraud, for instance), and (d) xRAN/Open… Read More »Mavenir Analyst Briefing – UCaaS, RCS Monetization, xRAN & 5G markets