MWC Barcelona 2023

The enterprise quest for a single source of truth involving data took a step forward last month with Snowflake Inc.’s rollout of its Telecom Data Cloud.Snowflake’s announcement involved the deployment of a fully managed, easy-to-use platform for telco customers. One of those users is AT&T Inc., which is driving a single source of truth for data across the organization.“People have dreamed of one data warehouse for the longest time and everything in one system, and this is the only way that becomes a reality,” said Roddy Tranum (pictured, far right), assistant vice president of channel performance data and tools at at AT&T

5G Open Innovation Lab: Unleashing 5G’s potential with collaborative ecosystem

With 5G still in its nascent phase, the enterprise at large is still unraveling new capabilities and value areas.As stakeholders such as visionary startups, investors, technical experts and industry leaders work to build what’s next, the 5G Open Innovation Lab LLC is empowering that vision by creating a development-focused ecosystem around them.“We incubate; we’re the connectors and builders of a network,” said Scott Waller (pictured, right), chief technology officer of 5G Open Innovation Lab. “We’ve had 101 startups over the last three years, and they’ve raised over a billion dollars. And it’s really valuable to our partners like T-Mobile and Dell

Couchbase works with telcos to harness data out to the edge

March 15, 2023

With data being the lifeblood of enterprises, telcos are not being left behind.Based on the high scale and expectations engulfing the telecom space, Couchbase Inc. works with operators to provide interactive experiences to users through data-centric applications, according to John Kreisa (pictured), chief marketing officer of Couchbase.“They’re building mobile applications where they’re stretching it out to the edge, and you have to move the data to the edge,” he stated. “You have to have that capability to deliver that highly interactive experience to their customers or for their own internal use cases out to that edge

New personas shape Dell’s strategy for speed and scale in edge computing

Major enterprise tech companies are learning to adopt to the new edge persona.The migration of compute to internet-of-things devices spread far and wide outside of the data center has influenced enterprise IT providers, such as Dell Technologies Inc., to cultivate different customer relationships.“We are Dell, so we have the luxury to be able to interview hundreds of customers that just now try to connect the OT with the IT together; what we learned is that the edge is different personas,” said Pierluca Chiodelli (pictured, left), vice president of engineering technology for edge computing offers, strategy and execution at Dell

Edge and AI are central focus in Dell’s recent PowerEdge server releases

The most recent updates to the server portfolio for Dell Technologies Inc. demonstrate a focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning at the edge.Last year’s introduction of the edge-optimized Dell PowerEdge XR4000 was swiftly followed by the release of the XR5610, XR7620 and XR8000 servers, which included enhanced built-in AI capabilities for edge workloads.“This is actually Dell’s largest server launch ever,” said Dave Lincoln (pictured, right), vice president of networking and emerging server solutions at Dell. “Since [SC22] in Dallas in November, we’ve started a rolling thunder of launches

Dell expands its Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab program, adds new participating partners

March 10, 2023

The telecom industry is moving into the cloud-native world, and Dell Technologies Inc. recently unveiled two initiatives to make that process easier.The company announced an expansion of its Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab, located in Round Rock, Texas, to include enhanced partner self-certification capabilities. Dell will also open another telecom lab facility in Cork, Ireland.“Carriers [need] to see the path going from a closed system to an open system,” said Tibor Fabry-Asztalos (pictured, left), senior vice president of telecom systems and product engineering at Dell Technologies

Private 5G attracts major attention at telco gathering in Barcelona

An open standard for radio access networks, or Open RAN, is a significant topic of conversation at MWC in Barcelona this week.One reason for the interest is that Open RAN could significantly reduce the cost of building private 5G networks for enterprises. Dell’Oro Group Inc. recently revised its Open RAN forecast higher, with an expectation that the standard could account for between 15% and 20% of global RAN deployments by 2027.“I was struck by how much attention is being paid to private 5G networks,” said David Nicholson (pictured, right), industry analyst for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio

Analyst hot takes from MWC 2023: Telco industry finally pushing ahead with cloud and developer initiatives

The telecommunications world is experiencing significant transformation, and this week’s gathering at MWC 2023 in Barcelona is providing attendees with a sense that the gears of change within a traditionally slow-moving industry are beginning to pick up speed.“These big transformations almost take a perfect storm of things that come together,” said Zeus Kerravala (pictured, third from left), principal analyst at ZK Research. “It appears today that between cloudification, going into cloud native, software stacks, APIs and the ecosystem, I think we’re in a position to see this industry finally move forward

CrowdStrike and Dell strategic alliance assists organizations with cyberthreats

March 6, 2023

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and Dell Technologies Inc. today announced a new strategic alliance to assist organizations in preventing, detecting and responding to cyberthreats with frictionless and cost-effective offerings.The new strategic alliance, which includes targeted offerings for businesses of all sizes, allows organizations to manage cyberthreats and protect their endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data. The collaboration provides significant market access, expediting consolidation from legacy and point products to a single platform

Fujitsu and Dell pave the way for continued Open RAN adoption

March 14, 2023

A recent partnership between Fujitsu Ltd. and Dell Technologies Inc. provides yet another signal that both companies are all in when it comes to the open radio access network, or Open RAN.In October, the two companies announced a collaboration that will let communications service providers design a reference architecture to integrate Fujitsu remote radio units with Dell’s virtualized accelerator cards.“We’re big open radio access network advocates,” said Greg Manganello (pictured, left), global head of network services at Fujitsu. “We’re one of the leading founders of that open standard

Telco cloud innovations: Dell works to simplify telecommunication infrastructure

Businesses globally are harnessing the power of the cloud, appreciating its speed, reliability and ease of use.With telco cloud, which allows telecommunications providers to configure and add services with ease, enables users to leverage cloud principles while reducing operating costs. This is a critical necessity, as telecommunication companies need innovative, new services to compete with other players.“One thing Dell is doing is offering an infrastructure block where we are taking over the overhead of certifying every release coming from the Red Hat or the Wind River of the world,” said Charles Tsai (pictured, right), senior director of product management at Dell Technologies Inc

Three insights you might have missed from MWC 2023

March 14, 2023

Amid a period of significant disruption, MWC 2023 in Barcelona brought forward several major trends to watch regarding telcos and transformation.“In a lot of ways, they’re sort of protecting their existing past from their future, so they have to be careful about how fast they move,” said theCUBE industry analyst Dave Vellante, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. “But at the same time, if they don’t move fast, they’re going to get disrupted.”TheCUBE was on the ground in Barcelona for coverage of this year’s MWC, formerly Mobile World Congress

Dell and Wind River cloudify RAN for seamless CSP operations MWC23

March 14, 2023

As the shift from a closed environment to an open one becomes the norm, the cloud is emerging as an ideal stepping stone to help ease the transition.With communication service providers eyeing Open RAN and Virtual RAN deployments for a unified cloud environment, Dell Technologies Inc. and Wind River Systems Inc. have teamed up to address challenges such as reintegrating what has been disaggregated along this journey, according to Gil Hellmann (pictured, right), vice president of telecom solutions at Wind River

T-Mobile leverages 5G for automation and cost-efficiency benefits

Since its arrival in the mainstream, 5G has been hailed as the leap in mobile networking to bring next-gen capabilities to enterprise automation and the internet of things.At T‑Mobile USA, 5G is already shaping value delivery in the areas of speed, reduced latency and next-level security toward bringing customers closer to their business objectives.“We’re here to handle the networking behind the scenes for you to achieve your business goals,” said Meg Knauth (pictured, right), vice president of IT application development and production support at T-Mobile. “You can apply that speed, security and reduced latency to so many different business goals

Dell steers telecom providers away from legacy monolithic architectures

Cloud technology is driving rapid acceleration and unlocking new value areas in an expanding set of niches, one of which is telecommunications.Dell Technologies Inc. is leveraging its considerable IT experience to drive new capabilities within the sector, in the hope of advancing a more open, cloud-native state of affairs.“From a Dell perspective, given our expertise with all the work we have done in IT and all the IT transformations, we’re leveraging it all and bringing that to the service providers to help them in accelerating their network transformation,” said Manish Singh (pictured, left), chief technology officer, telecom systems business, at Dell Technologies

Cisco to acquire Valtix to enhance its Security Cloud portfolio

February 26, 2023

The future of telecommunications: Dell senior global telecom head weighs in

As the edge continues to develop , deployments become larger scale and more difficult to properly monetize. Because the edge is a data-driven model, it requires API access and therefore can be charged for easily, according to Chris Falloon (pictured), senior managing director of the global telecom practice at Dell Technologies Inc. But could a more innovative model for monetization be brought to the table?“This industry has been given an opportunity to monetize almost every major transformation in technology, and many of them have slipped through our fingers,” said Chris Falloon, senior managing director of Global Telecom Practice at Dell Technologies

Dell and AT&T drive 5G benefits through a converged architecture

Partnerships are taking center stage in unlocking their potential with the 5G revolution already in high gear.The partnership between Dell Technologies Inc. and AT&T Inc. is geared toward leveraging and harnessing the capabilities of 5G through a converged infrastructure, according to Jason Inskeep (pictured, left), assistant vice president of 5G COE (private cellular, MEC, edge) at AT&T.“When we started looking at 5G and seeing the changes that were happening, one of the biggest changes is it became software-defined,” he said. “Dell creates a great opportunity for us from the hardware perspective to move those services around

Wind River and Dell collaborate to foster new Open RAN solutions for telcos

March 10, 2023

The radio access network is a foundational technology for the world’s wireless telecommunications providers, and two major tech players want to open that network architecture.Wind River Systems Inc. and Dell Technologies Inc. are collaborating on a set of Open RAN initiatives designed to reduce complexity and accelerate cloud-native network deployments. The partnership received an additional boost in February when Wind River joined the Dell Open Telecom Ecosystem Community

Japanese telecom giant NTT makes push into private 5G networks for businesses

Although 5G has seen its fair share of hype, the actual adoption of the service has been slower than anticipated, and monetizing the technology has been even harder.However, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is looking to do just that, leaning into 5G and gaining traction in widening its adoption and efficiency.“5G can be viewed from two lenses,” said Shahid Ahmed (pictured), group executive vice president of new ventures and innovation at NTT Corp. “One is just you and I using our cell phones, we get 5G coverage. And the other one is for businesses to use 5G, and we call that private 5G or enterprise-grade 5G. Two very separate distinct things, but it is 5G in the end

Microsoft and Dell help architect the telecom network of the future

March 1, 2023

Based on the desire by communications services providers for open network architecture, tech partnerships are proving to be a giant stepping stone toward this objective. Microsoft and Dell Technologies Inc. is one such example, as they expand their partnership into the telecom space to make it easier on organizations to acquire, deploy and support new technologies. The telecom network of the future has a lot to do with cloud, including a hybrid component, according to Dennis Hoffman (pictured, right), senior vice president and general manager of the telecom systems business at Dell Technologies Inc

DISH achieves real-time network observability at the edge, with help from Dell

Cloud computing is transforming enterprise telecommunications networks.DISH Network Corp. has incorporated Dell Technologies Inc.’s networking savvy and hardware to implement infrastructure, bringing cloud software to the crucial, distributed edge.“We’ve built a network from scratch covering the entire U.S., and we use a cloud-native base,” said Marc Rouanne (pictured, right), chief network officer and executive vice president at DISH. “So, from the bottom of the tower all the way to the internet, we use the cloud, distributed cloud. We’re starting to play with it, and that’s pretty cool. But it’s unique, and now it’s working

PowerEdge XR8000 multi-node server development based on user feedback

This year, Mobile World Congress was about more than consumer technology innovations in mobile communications. Several breakthrough technologies for the enterprise were also spotlighted, laying the foundations for new use cases in 5G and edge computing.One of those is Dell Technologies Inc.’s PowerEdge XR8000 multi-node server, which debuted at the event.“Why is it so innovative? What we’ve done here is we’ve taken a lot of insights and feedback from our customers that are looking at 5G deployments and looking at how they can bring commercial, off-the-shelf [hardware] to a very proprietary industry,” said James Bryan (pictured, left), director of product planning at Dell Technologies

HPE acquires Athonet for private wireless network capabilities

February 24, 2023

Dell and VMware set the ball rolling for telcos to go cloud-native

The cloud-native space continues to gain steam based on the resilience, flexibility, performance and agility benefits it provides.Through the VMware Telco Cloud Platform, Dell Technologies Inc. and VMware Inc. have partnered to enable network operators to achieve telco-grade resilience and service availability by deploying virtual network and cloud-native functions, according to Odded Solomon (pictured, left), director of technical product management for service provider and edge cloud at VMware.“The Telco Cloud Platform is serving network function vendors, such as Ericsson, Nokia, Mavenir, and so on,” Solomon said

Tackling sustainability for today’s networks: Intel, Dell weigh in

March 1, 2023

A lot of buzz has accompanied the exciting innovations coming to networking, such as 5G, edge computing and Open RAN.But behind the curtain lies another, equally important factor — power consumption. Operating expenditures are soaring as a result of increasingly power-hungry hardware. Thus, efforts need to be directed toward trimming power needs across the board, from processing to storage, according to Udayan Mukherjee (pictured, left), senior fellow, Network and Edge Group, at Intel.“This morning I had a discussion with an operator, and the first thing he said was that electricity consumption is more expensive nowadays than the total real estate that he’s spending money on,” he said

5G continues to gain traction, because it’s deemed the next big thing in networking and connectivity based on capabilities such as enhanced security.Since monetizing 5G is not a walk in the park based on issues such as personal information protection, Dell Technologies Inc. is bringing its market expertise and technology to the telcos’ table to streamline this process, according to Ken Byrnes (pictured, right), global telecom partner sales leader at Dell.“It is tying together Dell technology solutions and the best-of-breed of what the telecoms bring to solve the business outcomes of our joint customers,” Byrnes said

Telecom Infra Project and Dell work to advance Open RAN innovations

March 15, 2023

As 5G continues to deploy and evolve globally, disaggregation becomes more essential to society’s progress. Open Radio Access Networks allow for leveraging multi-vendor solutions. The Telecom Infra Project, know as TIP, founded in 2016, is working to drive infrastructure solutions to advance global connectivity.“Telecom Infra Project is a U.S. based non-profit organization community that brings different participants … together to accelerate the adoption of Open RAN and open interface solutions around the globe,” said Abdel Bagegni (pictured, right), technical program manager of the Telecom Infra Project.Bagegni and Manya Rastogi (pictured), product manager at Dell Technologies Inc

Telefónica and Dell empower digitalization with advanced network solutions

A transformation is brewing in the telecom world that mimics what happened in the computing space, where servers got covered with a cloud stack layer.For enhanced digitalization, synchronization, hardware acceleration and time-sensitive solutions on its network, Telefónica S.A. is taking the cloud and software route with the help of Dell Technologies Inc., according to Juan Carlos Garcia (pictured, left), senior vice president of technology and ecosystem at Telefónica.“New technologies you are getting into the network need to come with a detail shape, so being cloud-native, working by software,” Carlos Garcia stated

5G private networks are key focus in collaboration between Federated Wireless and AWS

March 2, 2023

Federated Wireless and Amazon Web Services Inc. are collaborating on a 5G private wireless initiative for a major mixed-use development in the Washington, D.C. area.The announcement in February provided details around the AWS-Federated partnership in cooperation with developer JBG Smith Properties to deploy 5G private wireless at National Landing urban community. The site will also be home for Amazon’s HQ2 headquarters project, and the private wireless network will provide connectivity for indoor and outdoor areas across the development

An open standard threatens to disrupt the cloistered world of wireless networking

February 26, 2023

Ahead of MWC, Dell doubles down on open telecom networks

February 22, 2023

How 5G will help blaze the trail to the long-awaited metaverse

February 26, 2023

Dell navigates fast-moving private 5G space with partnerships and edge solutions

March 7, 2023

How fast is the private wireless space moving? Fast enough for a major tech player to announce a partnership with one company and then watch its new partner get acquired by a competitor 48 hours later.That’s exactly what happened when Dell Technologies Inc. announced a partnership with Athonet Inc. on February 22. Before the week was done, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. had purchased the private 5G network provider for undisclosed terms.“It’s an open ecosystem; there are a lot of good players in this space,” said John McCready (pictured, right), senior director of product management of 5G solutions at Dell, when asked about the partnership and subsequent acquisition

What to expect during theCUBE’s coverage of MWC Barcelona 2023, Feb. 27-March 2

February 14, 2023

DISH and Dell move closer to first nationwide O-RAN 5G Coverage

Telcos hit crossroads navigating openness without sacrificing performance and reliability