Nokia and Nvidia built the first commercial AI-RAN, aiming to double network capacity
The firms powering the AI boom now want a piece of the mobile network. Nokia says it has built the industry’s first commercial AI-RAN platform, together with Nvidia, calling it the biggest shift in radio in decades.
RAN stands for radio access network, the gear that links phones to the wider network. An AI-RAN runs it on AI chips instead of fixed hardware. Nokia says the approach can lift spectral efficiency by more than 100% by 2028, it announced.
In plain terms, that means squeezing far more data through the same airwaves. Spectrum is scarce and costly. Doubling what it can carry is a big claim, and a big prize.
The numbers, and the pitch
Nokia says the platform has already shown more than 20% spectral gains. It expects 50% by 2027, and more than 100% by 2028. Pilots start at the end of this year, with a commercial...
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