ABOUT

{Core Analysis} was established in 2011 as a specialized analyst and consulting firm. Our mission to assist telecommunications and cloud operators, investors, and vendors in making informed investment regarding cloud and broadband infrastructure, technology, and partnerships.

Patrick Lopez, is Founder and CEO at {Core Analysis}.

As an analyst, he presents at influential industry forums and conferences and publishes an acclaimed blog, industry articles and reports. ….

Patrick has extensive experience in corporate strategy, corporate development (M&A, due diligence, debt / equity funding, partnerships, JVs etc), board governance, and is board member of CENGN (Canada’s Center of Excellence for Next Generation Networks). Patrick sat on the board of directors of NEC Advanced Networks the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), Meta’s Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and 5Tonic (an open 5G laboratory).

From chipsets, to smartphones, to packet core, edge computing, traffic optimization, OSS, (open, virtual, AI) RAN, High Altitude Platforms, cloud and AI, Patrick has led teams in the most exciting telco / cloud environment.

Prior to {Core Analysis}, Patrick was global VP of Product Management for 5G products at NEC, where he managed the product strategy and planning, corporate development, and growth of NEC telecom business, including Open RAN, Packet Core and automation, orchestration. Patrick was before than global VP Networks Innovation for Telefonica group, where he led in-house evaluation, development and new product introduction of

Connecting the Unconnected,
Edge Computing,
AWS Outpost, Google Anthos, Microsoft Azure Stack, Nvidia ...
Telco network as a Service,
Edge Gaming,
Edge AR/VR
Access networks disaggregation and virtualization (mobile and fixed)

Core Competencies:

•Technology and market expertise in telco & cloud networks and business models

•Strategic market analysis

•Due diligence and M&A

•Business planning

•Competitive analysis

•Product positioning and pricing

•New product introduction

Latest achievements

Pioneered programmable networks and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Over 30 international awards for new product / technology introduction and execution.
World’s first Open RAN (virtualized Radio Access Network) commercial deployments in greenfield and brownfield networks.
World’s first multi access (mobile, fixed, enterprise, residential) edge computing deployment (software defined Central Office re-architected as a data center project with transport aggregation, access virtualization, edge computing).
Pioneered Lean Telco innovation framework for telecom operators.
Multi 1oo´s million$ joint venture with Facebook and development banks to connect the unconnected. Includes SDN, NFV, open source virtualized ENodeB, EPC, satellite backhaul, Facebook, TIP, Google Loon…
Over 100 international clients at Core Analysis (Akamai, Amdocs, Bain&Co., Bell Canada, Citrix, Deloitte, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, HP, Huawei, InterDigital, META, McKinsey & Company, NEC, Red Hat, Telus, Telefonica …)

Publications and Interviews

Over 100 interviews with The Wall Street Journal, Wireless Week, CNNmoney, Washington Times, Wireless Week, Wireless News, RCR Wireless News , CNN, Total Telecoms, La tribune, Global Wireless, Telecommunications International Edition, Global Mobile, CNBC Europe, Broadcast News

Analyst Reports:

Various analyst reports I have collaborated to or written include Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley Credit Suisse First Boston, IDC, Frost & Sullivan, Yankee group, Ovum, Informa, Forrester Research...