“I would say the big difference in telecom is that any change effort implies risk," Dell Technologies' Dennis Hoffman said.

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“We are very much willing to work with customers to try to find solutions on how they want to use our technology," CEO Michael Glickman said.

Prior to the deal being announced, Ericsson was not viewed as a leading open radio access network vendor.

“We are looking for partners to bring out latent value in assets that we have," Frontier's Vishal Dixit said.

“I'm glad that this decision was not because of our performance, because of our technology or the performance of our services,” Pekka Lundmark said.

“I don't know that the way they've chosen to do it is necessarily what I've seen work in the past,” Samsung VP Alok Shah said.

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Kinetica’s real-time GPU database was built for spatial and time-series workloads. With its telecommunications platform, users can ask complex questions and visualize and interact with billions of data points.

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"There's no way we can deliver that kind of experience for our customers without millimeter wave," Verizon's Joe Russo said.

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“The proposed increases in broadband benchmark speeds clearly advantage operators of fiber optic networks," PwC's Dan Hays explained.

New VP Ankur Jain said the hyperscaler remains comfortable as a facilitator for private networks.

The vendor expects dynamic spectrum sharing will be core to future shared licensed spectrum use.

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"The impairment does not alter Ericsson’s positive outlook on the … market potential," the vendor explained.

“If you are going to shoot for the moon then shoot for the moon. Don’t shoot for halfway to the moon,” CableLabs' David Debrecht exhorted.

OREX launched with 13 vendor partners, including AMD, Dell Technologies, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, Mavenir, NEC and Nvidia.

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“Verizon ... they’ve got a big team and they like to own it. ... We are in the camp of bringing the right partnerships," UScellular's Kim Kerr said.

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"We've seen this architecture exceed our expectations on the overall economic picture for value," Verizon's Adam Koeppe said.