Technology Analyst and co-founder of 650 Group
Last year, when Mavenir parted ways with John Baker, its Open RAN evangelist, it was pretty clear that Mavenir hadn’t met its plans for its RAN business. This week, it announced a $1.3 billion debt and equity restructuring, and today we learned of its plans to save $400 million per… Read More »Mavenir’s Restructuring Reflects RAN Industry Woes, Retrenching to Telecom Core
We attended the very upbeat AMD Advancing AI 2025 Keynote with its CEO, Lisa Su. Guests included hardware partners such as xAI, Meta, Oracle, HUMAIN, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The company announced that its MI355-series GPU ships commercially in 3Q25 and previewed its MI4xx-series, which it expects to ship in 2026. … Read More »AMD Keynote: Responding to the Needs of Existing and Future Hyperscalers
We joined as both as an attendee and a panelist at the Wi-Fi NOW event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Some of the main themes were the rise of AI Networking, experiences of Managed Service Providers and Network as a Service, Wi-Fi service roaming, and the… Read More »Enterprise Wi-Fi Innovations at the Wi-Fi NOW Event
NVIDIA Announces “Security for AI” DOCA Argus Framework at RSA Conference NVIDIA announced a new software framework that intends to provide a real-time security function for AI Infrastructure, which can be called “Security for AI.” The AI giant is using its BlueField Data Processing Unit (DPU) to read memory in… Read More »NVIDIA Announces “Security for AI” DOCA Argus Framework at RSA Conference
Our take on the US tariff war is that uncertainty reigns today, which will probably result in forecast cuts for many of the companies we research. The longer the trade war continues, the more forecasts will be cut until we reach a steady state. We will have to respond with… Read More »Golden Screw Unavailable and Full Capacity Not Possible
Today, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) and Celona announced a partnership where ALE will sell Celona’s Private 5G systems. Additionally, ALE will integrate the Celona offering into its management systems so that customers will enjoy both systems but manage them more easily. The benefit to ALE customers will be that the combined… Read More »ALE and Celona’s Private 5G Collaboration
Today, Google announced plans to acquire Wiz, Inc. for $32B in cash. Of course, the deal is subject to “customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals.” Google said that Wiz’s products will continue to work and will be available across all major clouds, including AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud. It also… Read More »Google’s Planned Acquisition of Wiz Has The Potential to Change the Security Industry
We met with Drivenets executives at the show last week and learned much about the scope of the company. Importantly, the network software company is growing very significantly and has numerous contracts. The company now employs over 500 people and has over 100 open requisitions to hire more personnel.
Network software company Arrcus Networks made several important announcements at the Mobile World Congress 2025 (MWC25) show in Barcelona this week. We visited the company several times over the days we were at the show to learn as much as possible about the various announcements. The company announced partnerships with… Read More »Arrcus Announces NVIDIA and Broadcom Integrations at MWC25
One of the main themes we sought to investigate with our attendance at the Mobile World Congress 25 show in Barcelona this year was whether the mobile operator industry has made progress in finding new sources of revenue above and beyond bare-bones mobile data. Several themes were evident: first, Fixed… Read More »MWC25 – Mobile Operator 5G-Era Monetization Is Developing
