Engineering for scale without boundaries: Architecting the AI-native telecom network
By A.S. Prasad, Vice President of Product Management and Engineering, Vertiv India
Following the revolution of the telecom sector in India, network operators are now navigating a scale that few planners could have imagined a decade ago. Nokia’s latest Mobile Broadband Index puts average monthly mobile data use at over 31 GB per user, with total traffic above 27 exabytes a month and 5G carrying nearly half of it. The trajectory is steep; Ericsson’s June 2026 Mobility Report expects per-user consumption to nearly double within five years. And this is merely the baseline, before intelligence fully migrates into the network itself through AI-assisted radio optimisation, inference at the edge, and AI services delivered directly from network sites.
In my role as a product engineering leader at Vertiv, I view this evolution through a distinct lens. The defining challenge of this era is not predicting what the network will do but...
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