Nokia and Orange advance AI-RAN innovation with NVIDIA
- Nokia and Orange are expanding their strategic relationship to jointly co-create and co-innovate AI-RAN use cases, powered by NVIDIA AI infrastructure.
- Collaboration explores how the AI-RAN solution can enable greater spectral efficiency, AI-enhanced radio performance with predictive optimization, and AI processing for new services such as integrated sensing and communications (ISAC).
- The innovation initiative supports Orange’s evolution towards flexible, sustainable and AI-native radio networks across Europe and the Middle East & Africa.
Espoo, Finland – Nokia and Orange today announced a new collaboration focused on developing and evaluating artificial intelligence radio access network (AI-RAN) technologies powered by Nokia’s anyRAN 5G software and NVIDIA AI infrastructure. The initiative aims to explore how emerging AI-RAN capabilities can improve network performance, energy efficiency and enable new services for Orange customers.
Through a structured co-innovation framework, Nokia and Orange will jointly identify, design and evaluate new AI-RAN capabilities. The collaboration aims to explore how a GPU-based radio processor can improve radio performance with more advanced receivers, and how AI can be tightly integrated into the RAN to further improve performance, support new services such as sensing, and bring greater automation and intelligence to both cloud-based and purpose-built RAN environments.
As mobile networks evolve towards 6G, Nokia and Orange will jointly develop approaches to maximize the spectral efficiency of existing and future bands, including the upper 6 GHz band. The 6G-ready platform will enable a smooth, software-defined migration to 6G and support smarter use of computing resources across Orange’s operational footprint.
By working with Nokia and NVIDIA, Orange aims to advance its understanding of how AI-enabled RAN capabilities can be seamlessly integrated into operational networks while ensuring sustainability and resource efficiency across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
“Orange is committed to building more efficient, adaptable and sustainable networks. By working with Nokia and NVIDIA on AI-RAN, we can better understand how the AI-native architecture enabled by AI-RAN can improve the efficiency of key radio algorithms – such as scheduling, beamforming and energy optimization – improving both spectral efficiency and energy performance, while also enabling advanced capabilities such as predictive optimization and radio sensing. This collaboration is an important step in our long-term network strategy,” said Laurent Leboucher, Group CTO, Oranje.
“AI is reshaping the way networks are designed and introducing new levels of intelligence and flexibility at the radio layer. Through this collaboration with Orange, we are exploring how Nokia and NVIDIA’s AI-RAN solution brings together advanced AI and RAN capabilities into a unified architecture. This will play a key role in enabling the industry’s transition to cognitive, AI-native networking,” said Pallavi Mahajan, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Nokia.
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