I attended Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024, which gave me the opportunity to meet with scores of mobility companies and infrastructure providers from around the world. The event can certainly test one’s mental and physical endurance, juggling multiple meetings while traversing eight exhibition halls at the Fira Gran Via exhibition center.
Hewlett Packard Enterprises’ surprising announcement of its intention to acquire Juniper Networks for $14 billion In closing, I would be remiss to not acknowledge the elephant in the ORAN room: concerns about the perceived emergence of single-vendor ORAN deployments—something that seems to fly in the face of an “open” ecosystem.seems to be a consolidation to one vendor. However, given the need for ORAN integration that I previously mentioned, in my opinion it’s smart to begin with one vendor and diversify over time anyway, especially in large brownfield deployments such as AT&T’s network.