The 5G Factor: Qualcomm and Vodafone on 5G Open RAN, General Dynamics forms 5G and Edge Accelerator Coalition, AWS Nabs Lead in Telco Cloud, Smart Buildings on the Rise

In this episode of The 5G Factor, a production of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Futurum Research principal analyst and founding partner Shelly Kramer is joined by fellow analyst Ron Westfall to talk all things 5G, IoT, and the news and happenings in that ecosystem. Their conversation covers: Qualcomm and Vodafone build on previous commitments related to 5G Open RAN prospects. Qualcomm and Vodafone announced plans to develop, test, and integrate next gen 5G distributed units (DUs), and Radio Unit (RU) with Massive MIMO capabilities, intended to help deliver the commercial deployment of Open RAN in Europe. General Dynamics forms 5G and Edge Accelerator Coalition. General Dynamics has formed a 5G and Edge Accelerator Coalition with AWS, Cisco, Dell Technologies, Splunk and T-Mobile aimed at accelerating the adoption of 5G, edge, and advanced wireless technologies across government agencies. AWS takes an early lead in the telco ‘cloud wars.’ Although it’s still early days, there are signs that AWS is making a pretty solid land grab in the teleco cloud space, capturing considerable market share among telecom network operators. While that’s impressive, and it wasn’t surprising to also see Microsoft’s Azure making considerable inroads, what we find equally impressive is seeing Oracle and IBM taking some of that market share as well. Smart buildings market is going nowhere but up. The Smart Buildings market is expected to hit $121.6 billion by 2026 and with many clients working in that space: Cisco, IBM, Dell, Honeywell, Siemens, and Intel to name just a few, this news, driven by a number of factors, was of interest. Why is the smart buildings sector on fire? Lots of reasons, and ones that we dive into, alongside a mention of some data points from our recently published Honeywell Environmental Sustainability Index, developed in partnership with Honeywell that is a comprehensive index designed to measure sentiment around the pace and adoption of climate technologies within organizations.