First Orion is a leading telecom software company with 16 years of expertise, specializing in branded calling and call protection solutions that revolutionize the mobile communication experience.

The Fast Mode recently spoke to Joe Stenziano, the CEO and president of First Orion, about the state of phone calling in 2024. Joe discussed:

1. The growing importance of branding in phone calling and how it enriches the call experience for today’s brands
2. How a branded calling solution enhances call protection across two fronts: defence against bad actors and protection on the branding side
3. The underlying technologies that enable next-gen calling solutions to be deployed at scale, and delivered seamlessly across any network or device, including cloud-based operations, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
4. The benefits of deploying First Orion’s Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and Call Center as a Service (CCaaS) solutions on customers’ own network or infrastructure
5. How First Orion’s solutions support telcos in maintaining a consistent brand experience
6. Immediate and long-term outcomes in the telecom space, including increased engagement and subscriber affinity

To learn more, please visit:

• Branded Communication | First Orion
• Communication Protection | First Orion
• 2023 Branded Calling Trends Report

Ariana Lynn, Principal Analyst at The Fast Mode recently spoke to Bejoy Pankajakshan, Executive Vice President, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Mavenir. Bejoy discusses:

• Mavenir’s recent hundred million investment round anchored by Siris and how it will accelerate Mavenir’s efforts in automation, sustainability, and artificial intelligence
• How cloud-native technologies power innovative, agile and automated networks
• The roadmap for the rollout of cloud-native networks, including timelines, major milestones, and potential hurdles
• The importance of software compatibility with both private and public clouds and how Mavenir’s partnership with AWS supports operators in their shift to the cloud
• How the flexibility of Mavenir’s Open vRAN solution and partner ecosystem have supported DISH Wireless’s nationwide deployment of cloud-native 5G Open RAN covering over 9,500 cell sites and 55,000 radios in just sixteen months

To learn more, visit www.mavenir.com

In conjunction with the India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2022 that took place in New Delhi last month, Tara Neal, Executive Editor at The Fast Mode spoke to Bejoy Pankajakshan, EVP, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer at Mavenir.

In this podcast episode, Bejoy discusses the state of the Open RAN ecosystem and how close the industry is to fully-automated Open RAN networks. Bejoy also explores what telcos require for a successful cloud-native strategy and how they benefit from embracing cloud-native networks.

Additionally, Bejoy explains how Mavenir is helping its customers enter a new era of operations and service enablement with its broad portfolio, which of course, includes Open RAN.

Lastly, Bejoy examines the key challenges that network operators are facing as they shift to the next phase of their 5G strategies and some of the trends Mavenir sees in the larger telecoms market, as multiple industries invest in technologies that enable open, automated mobile networks.

To learn more, visit www.mavenir.com

Tara Neal, Executive Editor of The Fast Mode speaks to Glenn Longley, VP of Product Management at Inseego and Rachel Turkus, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at CyberReef.

Ariana Lynn, Senior Editor at The Fast Mode spoke to Srikrishnan Ganesan, the CEO and co-founder of Rocketlane on how the company feels about being recognized as a 2022 Gartner® Cool Vendor in Gartner’s Technology Go-to-Market category and some of the major contributing factors. Sri also discusses the role of onboarding in a customer journey, some of the gaps in the current onboarding and implementation space and how a collaborative platform can support enterprises.

Ariana Lynn, Senior Editor at The Fast Mode spoke to Rahul Sridhar, Content Marketer at Rocketlane on the company’s new and innovative approach to tech marketing, including its popular rap video released earlier this year titled ‘Rocketlane: Our Story So Far’. Rahul discuses how the idea for the rap video came about, some of the latest trends and ideas in tech marketing and the differences between younger and older generations in tech marketing.

As part of The Fast Mode podcast series, Tara Neal, Executive Editor at The Fast Mode spoke to Stephen Douglas, Head of Market Strategy at Spirent on the company's latest report '‘Cutting Through the Edge Computing Hype - MEC Latency Expectations vs. Reality’. The report assesses operator readiness to deliver SLA-guaranteed low latencies which are critical in supporting a wide range of ultra-reliable low-latency applications (URLLC).

Stephen shares among others, the expectations among enterprises with URLLC applications on 5G latencies, and the gap between the supply and demand for such services. Stephen highlights the common misconceptions among enterprises on actual latencies experienced on today's networks and the level of latencies required to support the full functionalities of their applications.

The podcast also discusses various industry verticals where SLA-guaranteed low latencies are most pertinent, including AR and VR, autonomous driving and industrial IoT.

Apart from this, the episode looks into trends around public and private MECs as well as the existing testing capabilities that operators can leverage to assess their readiness for SLA-guaranteed latency contracts.

In the aftermath of MWC 2022, The Fast Mode spoke to Steve Douglas, Head of Market Strategy at Spirent on the company's participation at the recently concluded event.

Steve discusses some of the latest findings from Spirent's ‘5G 2022: Market Drivers, Insights and Consideration’ report, which not only includes global and regional deployment trends for 5G, but also covers the role of cloud and the biggest opportunities fueling 5G adoption, deployment and growth. Steve also explores the challenges operators often grapple with when it comes to the testing, assurance and automation of 5G networks, and the readiness of today’s testing, assurance and automation tools to meet the needs of operators as they transition to 5G Standalone (5G SA).

To download Spirent's ‘5G 2022: Market Drivers, Insights and Consideration’ report, visit www.spirent.com/assets/the-spirent-2022-5g-report.

To learn more about Spirent and their initiatives in this space, visit www.spirent.com.