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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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Chua: Edge computing in 2021 -When elephants dance

Chua: Edge computing in 2021 -When elephants dance

FierceTelecom — In 2020 both wireless and wireline communications service providers (CSPs) continued to make investments in edge computing. From BT to Telstra, KT to KDDI, China Unicom to Telefónica, and Lumen, wireline and wireless providers rolled out trial edge sites at varying scales.
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Bellweather Cato's roaring 2020 signals breakout for SASE - Chua

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

FierceTelecom — Israeli-based unicorn Cato Networks revealed details of its 2020 business performance today. Cato grew bookings by over 200% for the fourth consecutive year, expanded its number of channel partners by 2.5 times, and added multiple 1000+-site large enterprises to its 800-strong customer list.
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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

FierceTelecom — One of the areas of edge computing that has garnered much attention is the collaboration between the world's largest telcos and the hyperscale cloud providers. With the increasing shift to mobile-centric connectivity by both consumers and enterprise, the 5G mobile edge is rising in importance.
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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

FierceTelecom — Cato Networks, an Israeli-based startup in the SASE and SD-WAN space, announced today that it raised an additional $130 million for a total of $332 million raised to date. Lightspeed Venture Partners led this new round with the participation of a new investor, Coatue, a $25 billion hedge-fund.
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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.com — AvidThink (with assistance from technology experts) ran a real-world basic test suite on AWS Wavelength on Verizon's network. While the tests achieved impressive throughput (> 3Gbps download speeds on UDP and easily over > 1Gbps on TCP), we did not discern any significant latency or throughput differences between a server in the SF Bay Area AWS Wavelength zone and a server in a nearby Amazon EC2 region.
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Empowering telecom providers through a ubiquitous edge platform

Empowering telecom providers through a ubiquitous edge platform

RCRWireless News — With 5G rolling out across the globe, there's been substantial attention showered on edge computing as a crucial enabler for specific capabilities such as ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) support. Edge and 5G have become synonymous even though carrier networks had already employed edge computing before 5G rollouts.
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Industry Voices - Chua: CSPs, hyperscale clouds and edge - beware the camel's nose

Industry Voices - Chua: CSPs, hyperscale clouds and edge - beware the camel's nose

FierceTelecom — A few short years ago, we were gearing up for another spectacular showdown - the battle for the edge. Both from a mobile network operator (MNO) or wireline network operator standpoint, there was a sense that we in telecom had ceded the spoils of 3G, 4G and wireline broadband networks to the cloud providers and the OTTs.
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Industry Voices-Chua: In 2020, will SD-WAN turn SASE and FUN?

Industry Voices-Chua: In 2020, will SD-WAN turn SASE and FUN?

FierceTelecom — As we kick off 2020, we're experiencing the usual wave of look-back, look-ahead articles across technology publications and prognostications from industry pundits. A pent-up spurt of announcements queued up from the holidays, and timed to align with CES 2020, have also spewed forth.
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Industry Voices-Chua: The multi-everything SD-WAN and thoughts from SD-WAN Summit 2019

Industry Voices-Chua: The multi-everything SD-WAN and thoughts from SD-WAN Summit 2019

FierceTelecom — The recent SD-WAN Summit 2019 gave attendees plenty to think about in regards to where SD-WAN is headed. The theme of the show was the "Second Wave of SD-WAN", which we at AvidThink view as service providers and managed service providers getting into the game with multivendor, uCPE-based solutions.
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Industry Voices-Chua: Can SD-WAN spark full telco NFV transformation?

Industry Voices-Chua: Can SD-WAN spark full telco NFV transformation?

FierceTelecom — SD-WAN could be the catalyst that lights up telcos with opportunity and dollars to drive real NFV deployments. The premise behind a software-centric, virtualized, telco infrastructure running on commodity hardware, one capable of running multi-vendor network functions and coordinating across multiple domains, is still valid.
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Industry Voices-Chua: SD-WAN fruit punch - a market share galore

Industry Voices-Chua: SD-WAN fruit punch - a market share galore

FierceTelecom — The methodology used in calculating something as ill-defined as SD-WAN revenue dramatically affects the end numbers. There are plenty of variables and ways that the numbers can be impacted. The bottom line is that after wading through all SD-WAN market size reports, enterprise and service provider IT decision-makers might not be better off in terms of having the right information to make their SD-WAN decision.
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