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Stephen Douglas, Head of Market Strategy at Spirent, talks about 5G Advanced momentum with RedCap IoT and location services, telco AI offerings like GPU-as-a-service, and expanded non-terrestrial direct-to-device capabilities beyond emergency use cases. He also discusses accelerated 6G standardization focused on new spectrum bands, integrated sensing, and cybersecurity.

Asim Rasheed, Product Manager for High Speed Ethernet at Spirent, demonstrates advanced Ethernet technologies including 1.6T transmission and the upcoming Ultra Ethernet Transport standard. The presentation showcases Spirent's latest solutions for high-performance testing while highlighting their role as an independent test vendor enabling objective technology comparisons across the industry.

Steve Douglas, Head of Market Strategy at Spirent, shares three major predictions for 2025 including network infrastructure as a service for AI, operational resilience becoming widespread across industries, and accelerated 5G developments. His analysis highlights how telecom providers will offer multi-tenant solutions while strengthening security measures and expanding 5G standalone deployments across global markets.

Steve Douglas, Head of Market Strategy at Spirent, explores the progression of AI in communications from tactical to strategic applications, highlighting the convergence of analytics, automation, and AI as crucial for network advancement.

Steve Douglas, Head of Market Strategy at Spirent, speaks about the evolution towards 400G Ethernet, network slicing for deterministic services, and evolution of data center fabrics to support AI processing, including use of ROCEv2.

Steve Douglas, Head of Market Strategy at Spirent, launches their 5th annual 5G report, predicting demand for 5G stand-alone in 2024, driven by new services like VoNR and AR. The report also forecasts growth in open and virtual RAN, with over 50 suppliers contributing to the new open RAN ecosystem, and a shift towards 5G Advanced and non-terrestrial networks.

Kevin Chang, Engineering Director of Hardware Platforms at Spirent, introduces an AI emulation solution for validating workloads on AI fabrics without needing actual GPUs. Chang showcases a new concept integrating OCP NIC 3.0 form factor into their GPU emulation system, enabling comprehensive testing of various system elements and network technologies.

Steve Rumsby, Senior Director of Architecture & Platform at Spirent, unveiled the Spirent B3 800G Appliance supporting IEEE 802.3df. The B3 Appliance also supports linear pluggable optics (LPO), an interconnect that uses lower power and latency. He also showcased 800G interconnects (DACs, AOCs, ACC and ZR transceivers) from 11 different partners.

Asim Rasheed, Product Manager, High Speed Ethernet, at Spirent, showcased a range of products from 100G to 800G, including the A1 Appliance with 16 ports of 400G, capable of emulating hyperscaler network flows. Rasheed also demonstrated sending 1.6 Tbps of live traffic through 2 800G ports on a Juniper switch.

Steve Douglas, Head of Market Strategy at Spirent, forecasts a surge in 5G Standalone adoption, an increase in private networks due to clearer ROI, and AI-driven evolution in data center networking and internet connectivity. He also predicts the start of 800GbE refresh cycles in 2024.

Steve Douglas, Head of 5G Strategy, Spirent Communications, provides key insights on a new generation of operational support systems that is bringing active assure capabilities to market. The is driven by the migration to 5G architecture.

Communications Service Providers are focusing on capital efficiency as they continue the rollout of their 5G infrastructures. A second key area of focus for mobile operators concerns new revenue streams. Here are some highlights of Spirent‘s annual 5G report, presented by Steve Douglas, Head of 5G Strategy, Spirent Communications. To download the report, please visit: www.spirent.com/assets/the-spirent-2023-5g-report

SASE has been at the forefront of innovation for enterprise networking. Where does its go in 2023 and beyond? Spirent's Marc Cohn makes his predictions for what's next on enterprise services in 2023.

Steve Douglas, Head of Market Strategy at Spirent, disclosed that early adopters of private wireless networks are experiencing a return on investment within six months due to the benefits of 5G, including increased productivity and reduced costs. A survey by Spirent involving over 200 enterprises revealed that business outcomes and security are the primary drivers for adopting 5G in private networks, with the technology unlocking value in areas like video monitoring.

The telco cloud has evolved from in-house carrier platforms to hybrid offerings that include public hyperscaler offerings and in-house offerings. The telco cloud ranges from public regional clouds to even uCPE on premises. Telcos face challenges in managing the diversity of hardware platforms and locations — APIs and standards, and assurance of performance is still evolving. Marc Cohn, Principal Technology Strategist, Spirent explains.

Tier One carriers have unique cloud environments suited to their specific needs, whereas public cloud operators optimize their infrastructure for a broader mission. The telco cloud NFV model presumes DPDK, OVS and Linux-based environment for virtualization. Spirent Communications' Dave Larson compares the two cloud environments.

Marc Cohn, Principal Technology Strategist at Spirent, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

As customers look to deploy open RAN systems they’re thinking about incorporating open compute capabilities for hosting applications on the edge. In this video, Steve Douglas, Head of Market Strategy at Spirent, takes a look at the open RAN roadmap with attention to how service providers will utilize open RAN and the key technology capabilities that need to be brought into the system. Download AvidThink's 2021 Open RAN Report to explore key infrastructure considerations for Open RAN and O-RAN adoption.

The public cloud is gaining so much momentum that the telco operators must give serious consideration to how they could exploit it. Marc Cohn, Principal Technology Strategist at Spirent, discusses the fundamental ways the telco cloud varies from the public cloud.

Testing and service assurance is going to play a major role in enabling the adoption of the industry's first SD-WAN standard, specifically in terms of functionality, performance, and security. Marc Cohn, Director of Technology Strategy and Virtualization at Spirent and Co-Chair of MEF Certification Committee, discusses why SD-WAN testing is more extensive than traditional infrastructure testing.