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Will Townsend

Bastrop, Texas, United States

Top 10 Ranked Analyst in the World by ARInsights - Networking & Security Analyst Featured on NPR & WSJ, Technology Consultant & Avid Cyclis

Will Townsend Points
Academic 0
Author 46
Influencer 52
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 0
Total 98

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Areas of Expertise

Agentic AI 30.05
Data Center 30.25
Generative AI
Innovation 30.47
IT Leadership 31.15
IT Operations
Security 31.26
Telecom 41.36

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3 Analyst Reports
ANALYST INSIGHT: The Value Of Analytics And Observability Within Nokia’s Autonomous Networks Platform
https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/
February 12, 2025
Modern network deployments embrace disaggregated infrastructure, and for good reason. The use of cloud services allows service providers to avoid costly upfront capital investments, while also forgoing the hassle of procurement, configuration, provisioning, deployment, and management tasks.

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Tags: Innovation, Telecom

ANALYST INSIGHT: Exium Aims to Disrupt the SASE Market with Managed Networking and Security Services
https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/
February 07, 2025
The software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) market — including what has matured into the secure access service edge (SASE) market — has become a crowded space, and for good reason. Enterprises are adopting SD-WAN and security-infused SASE services in growing numbers, given their ability to improve connectivity performance and resiliency based on application and user demands

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Tags: IT Leadership, Security

ANALYST INSIGHT: Nokia’s Mission to Optimize Security Outcomes Through Modern AI Ops
https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/
January 29, 2025
Over the past several years, AI ops has allowed enterprises to achieve improved service reliability, faster resolution of IT-related issues, reduced operational costs, and higher degrees of network assurance.

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Tags: Security, Telecom

4 Article/Blogs
Transforming Telecom Operations Through Agentic And Generative AI
https://www.forbes.com/
February 24, 2025
Modern AI, encompassing generative and agentic solutions, continues to be at the forefront of technology conversations. In this piece, I will dig deeper into several telecom service providers that I believe are embracing the power of modern AI to significantly improve subscriber experiences and in the process transform operational efficiency and service delivery.

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Tags: Agentic AI, Innovation, Telecom

AT&T Refines Subscriber Experience With New Service Guarantee And More
https://www.forbes.com/
January 30, 2025
Following my participation at the AT&T Analyst and Investor Day in December, I had an opportunity to speak with Jenifer Robertson, executive vice president and general manager of the company’s Mass Markets business unit that provides consumer wireless and wireline services.

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Tags: Telecom

MITRE ATT&CK Round 6 Insights
LinkedIn
December 12, 2024
For the past several years, the MITRE ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) framework has provided an analysis of cybersecurity threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures and, in the process, measures how well endpoint security solutions detect and prevent cyber threats. Last year’s Round 5 focused on the ability of almost thirty EDR solution providers to detect, analyze, and describe the techniques of threat group Turla through the execution of multiple attack scenarios.

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Tags: Security

Juniper Furthers Its Reach into the Enterprise with SD-WAN Enhancements
LinkedIn
January 20, 2022
For many years, Juniper Networks was a service provider play. During that time, Juniper’s bigger rivals Cisco and Aruba made hay in the enterprise space while it stood on the sidelines, evidenced by flatlined gross revenue. However, the company has made significant inroads into the enterprise market. Juniper has established sales momentum through a mix of acquisitions in Mist Systems and 128 Technology, strategic partnerships with Anuta Networks for needed automation capabilities, and organic roadmap development and repositioning. At the same time, I believe Juniper has formulated the proper positioning, leaning into artificial intelligence credibly to create to power what it has coined as "experience first networking." This week, the company made several enhancements to its SD-WAN offering to further its enterprise sales momentum. I want to highlight my key takeaways.

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Tags: Security, Mergers and Acquisitions

1 Miscellaneous
RESEARCH NOTE: The McLaren Formula 1 Team Goes for the Checkered Flag with Connectivity and Security
https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/
February 13, 2025
Formula 1 is considered the most popular annual sporting series globally, as measured by Nielsen Sports. Over 750 million fans attend and tune into Grand Prix events around the world, including the race in my hometown of Austin, Texas.

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Tags: IT Operations, Security

4 Videos
The Future of Telecommunications Starts with Autonomous Networks – Six Five Media
https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/
February 10, 2025
Autonomous networks = the next big thing? Will Townsend, VP & Principal Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy gets the download in his conversation with Vishal Singh, Nokia‘s Senior VP, on how AI and machine learning are revolutionizing network efficiency and the power of autonomous networks in the telecommunications sector.

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Tags: Innovation, Telecom

Datacenter Podcast: Episode 37 – Talking Cisco, Google, Nutanix & Dell
https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/
February 10, 2025
On this week’s edition of MI&S Datacenter Podcast, Moor Insights & Strategy co-hosts Matt, Will, and Paul analyze the week’s top datacenter and datacenter edge news. This week they talk Cisco, Google, Nutanix & Dell.

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Tags: Data Center

Six Five Media – NTT R&D Forum 2024: A Showcase of Innovation Aimed at Creating a Better Future
https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/
January 29, 2025
NTT is a top 15 global tech company with nearly $100B in revenue and 340K employees worldwide. What many people don’t realize is they’re much more than a telecom provider – they’re also a major player in enterprise IT services, data centers, and even renewable energy.

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Tags: Security, Telecom

Datacenter Podcast: Episode 36 – Talking Stargate – Is It Real?
https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/
January 27, 2025
On this week’s edition of MI&S Datacenter Podcast, Moor Insights & Strategy co-hosts Matt, Will, and Paul analyze the week’s top datacenter and datacenter edge news. This week they talk about Stargate – is it real?

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Tags: Data Center, Telecom

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