Nokia, Orange partner to accelerate AI-RAN

Nokia teamed up with Orange to jointly develop AI-RAN use cases, supported by Nvidia’s AI infrastructure, exploring how the industry can use emerging capabilities to enhance network performance, energy efficiency and offer new operator services. Nokia and Orange stated it will focus work through a co-innovation framework, jointly identifying, designing and evaluating new AI-RAN capabilities. Specifically, they will explore how a GPU-based radio processor can boost radio performance with more advanced receivers, how AI can be tightly integrated into the RAN to improve performance, support new services such as sensing and bring greater automation and intelligence to both cloud-based and purpose-built RAN environments. The pair also noted that as mobile networks evolve toward 6G, they will co-develop approaches “to maximise the spectral efficiency of existing and future bands, including upper 6GHz.” It touted the platform as “6G-ready”, enabling a smooth, software defined migration to the technology and support smarter use of compute resources across the operator’s footprint. In working with Nokia and Nvidia, Orange added it aims to deepen its understanding of how AI-enabled RAN functions can integrate into networks while ensuring sustainable and efficient resource utilisation across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Pallavi Mahajan, chief technology and AI officer, said AI is reshaping how networks are designed and its latest partnership will be “instrumental in enabling the industry’s transition toward cognitive, AI-native networks”. AT MWC26 Barcelona, Nokia talked up its AI-RAN partnership with Nvidia, showcasing operator integrations and successful function tests of GPU-accelerated AI-RAN. The post Nokia, Orange partner to accelerate AI-RAN appeared first on Mobile World Live .