{"id":20667,"date":"2025-03-06T16:09:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/?p=20667"},"modified":"2025-03-06T16:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:09:56","slug":"ericsson-softbank-corp-achieve-milestones-in-ai-ran-integration-joint-research-and-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/?p=20667","title":{"rendered":"Ericsson, SoftBank Corp. achieve milestones in AI-RAN integration joint research and development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ericsson and SoftBank Corp. announced progress and achievements in their ongoing joint research and development collaboration on AI-RAN integration and agreed to sign an MoU to further extend its collaboration. This partnership aims to explore the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Radio Access Network (RAN) technologies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the start of the collaboration, Ericsson and SoftBank have successfully made progress in several key areas, demonstrating the potential of AI-RAN integration to transform telecommunications. Achievements include:
\n\u2022 Demonstrating a prototype of Ericsson Cloud RAN software running on the Grace CPU of NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip.
\n\u2022 Defining an architecture that enables the orchestration of both RAN and AI applications on the same infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Building upon the successful progress of the collaboration, the two companies have agreed to expand their research:
\n\u2022 Exploring the feasibility of offloading selected RAN functions to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) using NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip platform.
\n\u2022 Prototyping the orchestration of AI and RAN workloads, which can be achieved coordinating SoftBank\u2019s orchestrator from their AITRAS solution and Ericsson\u2019s open network management and automation platform
\n\u2022 Exploring optimal AI placement of computation for robotic applications using Ericsson\u2019s compute offloading framework<\/p>\n

With the expansion of this joint research, it is anticipated that the coordination of SoftBank\u2019s and Ericsson\u2019s development efforts will lead to significant advancements in RAN and mobile networks, as well as in the robotics industry.
\nJawad Manssour, President and Representative Director, Ericsson Japan says: \u00abThe progress made in our collaboration with SoftBank underscores our commitment to pioneering innovations in telecommunications. These achievements mark significant milestones in our journey to empower communications service providers with more efficient and versatile networks.\u00bb
\nHideyuki Tsukuda, Executive Vice President and CTO at SoftBank Corp., says: \u00abBuilding on our previous activities, this expansion into joint research and development between SoftBank and Ericsson toward future network deployment represents an important step forward in the evolution of AI-RAN technology. We will build SoftBank\u2019s infrastructure with AI-RAN and evolve it into next-generation communication infrastructure that supports AI.\u00bb
\nEricsson and SoftBank are among the prominent industry leaders who formed the AI-RAN Alliance, unveiled at the Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024. This alliance is a new collaborative effort to integrate AI into cellular technology, with the goal of progressing RAN technology and mobile networks.<\/p>\n

Above, Ericsson HQ \/ image credited to Ericsson<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ericsson and SoftBank Corp. announced progress and achievements in their ongoing joint research and development collaboration on AI-RAN integration and agreed to sign an MoU to further extend its collaboration. This partnership aims to explore the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Radio Access Network (RAN) technologies Since the start of the collaboration, Ericsson and … <\/p>\n

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