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The Party-Crashers of MWC21
This week’s MWC Barcelona 2021 had several themes; the most important was that several outsiders to the telecom industry were ever-present. The new entrants – the party-crashers – included Starlink, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Compute, and NVidia. These new players are forcing change either through economics, new technology,… Read More »Blog
New Network And Security Player On The Scene: Witesand
Witesand just came out of stealth today, and made a video presentation based primarily at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. Praveen Jain, a co-founder of Witesand and various other networking companies, was the main presenter and conducted various interviews with interested third parties. The company’s cloud services asset discovery, NAC,… Read More »Blog
Multi-source Solutions Strategy to Address Semiconductor Shortage Situation
650 Group offers thoughts on the state of the global semiconductor industry. Semiconductor shortages continue to make headlines impacting almost every industry from automotive, healthcare, consumer, and into all aspects of the data center. Semiconductor shortages have their roots in 2020, with COVID-19 causing a lack of investment in new… Read More »Blog
TIP OpenWiFi: Will Open Source Wi-Fi Upset the Enterprise Wi-Fi industry?
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) announced the launch of OpenWiFi Release 1.0, which is a community-developed project that encompasses Access Point hardware, an open-source AP operating system, and an SDK to build cloud-native Wi-Fi Controller software for Service Providers (SPs) and Enterprises. TIP is also starting lab and field trials. … Read More »Blog
Implications of the DISH / AWS Announcement
On April 21, 2021, DISH, the fourth wireless operator in the US market, and hyperscaler Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to work together, whereby DISH will leverage AWS infrastructure and services to build a cloud-based 5G Open Radio Access Network. The DISH/AWS announcement is important because this is the… Read More »Blog
Aruba Atmosphere 2021 – “Journey to the Edge”
Each year, Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company has its Atmosphere conference. This year the conference theme was “Journey to the Edge.” However, this year was also much different from previous conferences because Aruba completed the acquisition of Silver Peak last September. As a result of the acquisition, the conference… Read More »Blog