In order for edge infrastructure to scale operationally and economically novel mechanisms and tools for managing services that are deployed across a fleet of edge cloud nodes. This is where the SMO or Service Management and Orchestration concept comes into play. Emerging frameworks from semiconductor, software, and increasingly OEMs are beginning to assume the important role of stitching together constellation of edge clouds.
Continue readingneXt Curve Insights – September 2023
This is the March 2023 edition of the neXt Curve Tech Insights newsletter. This edition covers MWC 2023, IoT Slam, Nvidia GTC, ZEDEDA Transform, generative AI, and more. Subscribe for tech and industry insights that matter.
Continue readingneXt Curve Insights – July 2023
This is the July 2023 edition of the neXt Curve Tech Insights newsletter. This edition covers SEMICON West 2023, Qualcomm HQ tour of ControlNet and Sony Honda Mobility’s Afeela, Snapdragon Sound at The Village Studios, and Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Fold and more. Subscribe for tech and industry insights that matter.
Continue readingneXt Curve Insights – June 2023
This is the June 2023 edition of the neXt Curve Tech Insights newsletter. This edition covers WWDC 2023, Sensors Converge, HPE Discover, Samsung Networks Analyst Day, Cisco Live, Honeywell HBT HUG, hybrid AI, GenAI, 5G modernization, RedCap, Galaxy Book3 and S23 Ultra, and more. Subscribe for tech and industry insights that matter.
Continue readingneXt Curve Insights – March 2023
This is the March 2023 edition of the neXt Curve Tech Insights newsletter. This edition covers MWC 2023, IoT Slam, Nvidia GTC, ZEDEDA Transform, generative AI, and more. Subscribe for tech and industry insights that matter.
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neXt Curve’s key takes and insights from GSMA’s Mobile World Congress MWC 2023 with a focus on Open RAN, semiconductors, telco cloud and more.
Continue readingneXt Curve Insights – February 2023
This is the February 2023 edition of the neXt Curve Tech Insights newsletter. This edition covers Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event, Qualcomm’s R&D briefing, Bing Chat, the state of Open RAN and more. Subscribe for tech and industry insights that matter.
Continue readingIndustry Insight: The State of Open RAN
What is the state of Open RAN? Despite all the excitement, little progress has been made on the commercial front. Brownfield mindshare and presence are yet to be realized amid early-stage greenfield deployments of open RAN networks, most notably Dish and 1&1.
Continue readingTech Insight: Ericsson Counters the Open RAN Threat and More…
neXt Curve Research Brief: Over the past three years, the Open RAN movement has transformed into an operator’s mission to realize a more open architecture in its networks into what sounds more and more like a vendor war on the “legacy vendors”, Ericsson, Nokia, and Huawei. Much of this dynamic has been due to the divisive geopolitics between China and the US. The resultant elimination of low-cost, high-quality RAN system provided by Chinese ICT vendors drew interest in Open RAN as a possible economical option versus the two remaining incumbents who Dave Mayo of Dish Network dubbed “the Scandinavian mafia”.
Continue readingIndustry Insight: Ericsson to Acquire Vonage
neXt Curve: Contributing Analyst – Foong King Yew: Ericsson has just announced its acquisition of Vonage, valuing the latter at an enterprise value of around $6.2b. This is clearly a push into the enterprise and communications applications programming interface (API) markets, partly driven by activist shareholders who are hankering for growth.
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