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Roy Chua

(He/Him)
  • Founder and Principal, AvidThink
San Francisco, United States
As seen in: Mobile World Live, RCRWireless News, SDxCentral, Fierce Network, FierceWireless, The New Stack, FierceTelecom, MEF’S Edge VIEW Blog, Silverlinings
Covers:  Infrastructure technologies including 5G, edge, IoT, cloud and containers, Open RAN, private mobile networks, SDN, NFV, networking, infrastructure security.
Doesn't Cover: Optical, RF technologies, application development platforms.
Founder at AvidThink. Focused on infrastructure technology for enterprises, telcos and cloud. Check out: nextgeninfra.io. ALT: hachyderm.io/@roychua

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Roy Chua is founder and principal at AvidThink, an independent research and advisory service formed in 2018 out of SDxCentral's research arm. Roy was previously co-founder at SDxCentral where he ran both the research and product teams. Roy was formerly a management consultant working with both Fortune 500 and startup technology companies on go-to-market and product consulting. As an early proponent of the software-defined infrastructure movement, Roy is a frequent speaker at events in the telco…

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Chua: Edge computing in 2021 -When elephants dance

Chua: Edge computing in 2021 -When elephants dance

In 2020 both wireless and wireline communications service providers (CSPs) continued to make investments in e…

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Bellweather Cato's roaring 2020 signals breakout for SASE - Chua

Bellweather Cato's roaring 2020 signals breakout for SASE - Chua

Israeli-based unicorn Cato Networks revealed details of its 2020 business performance today. Cato grew bookin…

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Industry Voices-Chua: Tripping the light fantastic with AWS Wavelength on Verizon 5G

Industry Voices-Chua: Tripping the light fantastic with AWS Wavelength on Verizon 5G

One of the areas of edge computing that has garnered much attention is the collaboration between the world's …

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Industry Voices-Chua: Cato Networks goes from dark horse to $1B unicorn

Industry Voices-Chua: Cato Networks goes from dark horse to $1B unicorn

Cato Networks, an Israeli-based startup in the SASE and SD-WAN space, announced today that it raised an addit…

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AWS Wavelength on Verizon: A Real-World Perspective - Part 1 - AvidThink

AWS Wavelength on Verizon: A Real-World Perspective - Part 1 - AvidThink

AvidThink (with assistance from technology experts) ran a real-world basic test suite on AWS Wavelength on Ve…

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Empowering telecom providers through a ubiquitous edge platform

Empowering telecom providers through a ubiquitous edge platform

With 5G rolling out across the globe, there's been substantial attention showered on edge computing as a cruc…

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Analyst Insights from GNE 2024: Carrier NaaS in 2025

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By Roy Chua
| mplify.net
on Posted on Reading Time: 4 minutes 2024 ended with a flurry of NaaS-related (Network-as-a-Service) announcements across the networking industry, from enterprises to carriers. There was confusion around what NaaS meant, and definitions and redefinitions were abundant. For those of us who are still confused, as we define it at AvidThink, NaaS is a business model.
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How Edge AI Services Benefit the Retail Sector: Highlights from the MEF Webinar

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By Roy Chua
| mplify.net
on Posted on Reading Time: 4 minutes MEF recently hosted a webinar on How Edge AI Services Benefit the Retail Sector, featuring presenters from AT&T Business, NTT Communications, Sparkle, and analysts from GSMA Intelligence, STL Partners, and AvidThink. The webinar examined how retailers could benefit from edge computing and AI. I had the pleasure of representing AvidThink. Webinar Presenters: Will Eborall, Assistant VP, Edge Solutions Product Marketing Management, AT&T Business.
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Analyst Insights: NaaS Evolution

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By Roy Chua
| mplify.net
on Posted on Reading Time: 5 minutes Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) is a promising business model for flexible, scalable, and efficient networking solutions. The recent resurgence of interest in NaaS indicates that businesses are looking to change how they consume and manage network resources. NaaS promises agility and cost-effectiveness in an increasingly complex IT environment.
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