VMware acquisition of Uhana speaks to service assurance in the 5G era SAN FRANCISCO–Telcos are ramping up investments in hybrid cloud strategies in tandem with 5G network deployments, which are …
Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst
Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst
Sean focuses on multiple subject areas including 5G, 6G, Open RAN, hybrid cloud, edge computing, and Industry 4.0. Prior to his work at RCR, Sean studied journalism and literature at the University of Mississippi then spent six years based in Key West, Florida, working as a reporter for the Miami Herald Media Company. He currently lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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You can’t do 5G without a virtualized infrastructure: VMware exec SAN FRANCISCO–5G is accelerating telco adoption of software-centric strategies that will only compound as pervasive next generation connectivity enables a …
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Will escalating dispute bifurcate global trade? SAN FRANCISCO–President Trump, to the detriment of some U.S. businesses, continues to escalate tariffs on Chinese goods and even went so far as to …
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SAN FRANCISCO–With a call out from VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger during his opening keynote and numerous mentions from Dell Technologies-family executives, 5G was most certainly a topic of interest during …
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Kubernetes is “as significant” as cloud and virtual machines, Pat Gelsinger says SAN FRANCISCO–VMware is betting big on Kubernetes as the container orchestration tool to facilitate software development and operations …
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Ahead of annual showcase, VMware acquiring Carbon Black and Pivotal Software With its annual VMWorld event set to begin next week in San Francisco, VMWare this week announced a pair …
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700 MHz, 3.6 GHz and 26 GHz are “pioneer” 5G bands in European Union While European regulators have articulated plans to auction millimeter wave licenses, all of the current and …
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“Hyper-dense network” is focus of in-building 5G partnership between Verizon and Boingo In its push to launch millimeter wave-based 5G service in 30 cities by the end of the year, …
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Most currently 5G deployments are very much focused on delivering enhanced mobile broadband to consumers. But leveraging connectivity to digitize and transform industries is drawing significant interest from the telecom …
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“5G is here now,” Inseego CMO says Ashish Sharma, CMO and EVP of IoT & Mobile Solutions at Inseego, shares his perspective on 5G development in Europe, including opportunities around …
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UPS took minority stake in autonomous truck company TuSimple Working with San Diego-based startup TuSimple, UPS has been using autonomous trucks to haul cargo between Phoenix and Tucson in Arizona …
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Comparing 5G plans for Swiss operators Salt, Sunrise and Swisscom Speed testing authority Ookla maintains a handy global map tracking various categories of 5G deployments–pre-release, limited availability and commercial availability. …
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Qualcomm working with local operators and government on millimeter wave 5G trial network Millimeter wave spectrum has been front-and-center in U.S. 5G deployments with AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon all …
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Paul Challoner of Ericsson discusses role of dynamic spectrum sharing in deploying 5G services 5G means more network capacity and more network capacity means operators need more spectrum. While regulators …
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Network virtualization, automation key pieces of transition from LTE to 5G AT&T and Dell Technologies are combining their respective expertise in open source software to develop solutions to enable the …
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AT&T, Cradlepoint, Fleet Complete partner for public safety fleet management As it continues to build out its dedicated public safety network and sign up first responder organizations around the country, …
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Sprint and T-Mobile US reportedly exploring settlement of state-level lawsuits The Department of Justice recently gave Sprint and T-Mobile US approval for a long-pending $26 billion merger with extensive concessions. …
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Huawei’s Joy Tan discusses how Huawei ban, potential rip-and-replace will impact American workers and businesses From banning the technology giant from selling to the U.S. government and blocking domestic carrier …
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IoT, AI and machine learnings are key edge computing use cases, CenturyLink says There widespread consensus that edge computing will be a key piece of opening up latency-sensitive 5G applications …
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FCC Commissioner: “It’s time to go back to the drawing board” In an effort to accelerate small cell deployments in support of U.S. 5G leadership, the Federal Communications Commission last …
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Sprint and T-Mobile US both using dual connectivity to roll out 5G Carrier aggregation has allowed operators to tap into noncontiguous blocks of licensed spectrum, as well as unlicensed frequencies …
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Dynamic spectrum sharing accelerates 5G deployments by removing the need for re-farming Right now, 5G deployments around the world use an LTE core and radio access network with the addition …
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BT taps Juniper for for telco cloud, Canonical for open source core With its mobile unit EE in the early days of offering up 5G, parent company BT has recently …
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“5G is progressing well in Europe,” according to EC report In a report detailing 5G progress among European Union member states covering the period up to June 2019, IDATE DigiWorld …
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Ronan Dunne discusses Verizon 5G coverage and capacity plans Verizon’s ongoing mobile 5G network deployment, slated to hit parts of 30 cities by the end of the year, taps the …
