2025 5G Prospects: Open RAN, D2C & DOOH - 5G Factor EP80

On this episode of the Six Five Webcast: The 5G Factor, hosts Ron Westfall and Tom Hollingsworth focus on the key 5G ecosystem developments which helped kick off 2025, including Cisco providing an update on its strategic relation with Boost Mobile. Highlights include how Cisco's Test Automation Framework (TAF) and SDN controller, Cisco Crosswork Network Controller, were pivotal in testing new services and activating cell sites that assured Boost fulfilled its 5G deployment targets, as we also addressed prospects for Boost's parent company, Echostar/DISH Wireless through 2025 and beyond. We assess why Nokia collaborating with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is important to 5G security, underscoring Nokia's commitment to meeting security and privacy challenges across mobile networks. We dive into the US Department of Defense (DoD) selecting Federated Wireless, sub-contracting JMA Wireless for RAN infrastructure and HPE for core network software, to deploy what the DoD is characterizing as its first commercial private 5G (P5G) network, providing impetus for the P5G business case across military installations.