Nokia announced significant progress in its strategic AI-RAN partnership with NVIDIA, including new customer integrations and successful functional tests of Nokia anyRAN software on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated AI-RAN platform with T-Mobile, Indosat and SoftBank Corp. AI-RAN gains traction with BT, Elisa, NTT DOCOMO and Vodafone Group, powered by the NVIDIA AI Aerial platform, driving the evolution of 5G and paving the way for AI-native 6G. A growing ecosystem of partners supports AI-RAN, including Dell Technologies, Quanta Inc, Red Hat and SuperMicro.
The collaboration marks a strategic milestone in 5G evolution, advancing real-world AI-driven RAN deployments and the transition toward cognitive, software-defined wireless networks. In collaboration with key customers, Nokia has completed functional tests of its AI and RAN workloads on NVIDIA?s GPU-accelerated AI-RAN platform, showcasing the scalability and efficiency of AI-powered RAN solutions. These tests validate the readiness of AI-RAN for real-world deployments and its ability to deliver enhanced user experiences and unlock new monetization opportunities through advanced AI services.
Key customer developments include: Nokia, T-Mobile U.S., and NVIDIA have successfully tested GPU-accelerated AI-RAN workloads at T-Mobile?s AI-RAN Innovation Centre at its Seattle headquarters; Nokia and Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) achieved Southeast Asia?s first AI RAN?powered Layer 3 5G call at MWC; Nokia and SoftBank Corp. demonstrated how spare AI-RAN compute capacity can be used to run third-party AI tasks. Nokia has also expanded its ecosystem of AI-RAN partners, who are building the servers and infrastructure for AI-RAN, including Quanta and SuperMicro, who join Dell Technologies and build on Red Hat OpenShift for orchestration.
Nokia and NVIDIA are working with Red Hat to enable AI-RAN technologies on a common cloud-native platform, using Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat AI Enterprise to scale NVIDIA-accelerated RAN and AI workloads across hybrid cloud environments and advance today?s 5G networks toward AI-native 6G. Complementing this, QCT?s QuantaEdge EGN77C-2U, built on the NVIDIA Aerial RAN Computer Pro platform and powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs, the NVIDIA Grace CPU, and high-performance networking, provides a compact, energy-efficient edge solution for inline GPU-accelerated RAN processing. Integrated with Nokia?s anyRAN approach, it offers operators a flexible, software-defined architecture for evolving from current 5G deployments to future AI-RAN and 6G capabilities across both Cloud RAN and purpose-built RAN environments.
NVIDIA Corporation is the world leader in the design, development, and marketing of programmable graphics processors. The group also develops associated software. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- computing and networking solutions (89%): data center platforms and infrastructure, Ethernet interconnect solutions, high-performance computing solutions, platforms and solutions for autonomous and intelligent vehicles, solutions for enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure, crypto-currency mining processors, embedded computer boards for robotics, teaching, learning and artificial intelligence development, etc.;
- graphics processors (11%): for PCs, game consoles, video game streaming platforms, workstations, etc. (GeForce, NVIDIA RTX, Quadro brands, etc.). The group also offers laptops, desktops, gaming computers, computer peripherals (monitors, mice, joysticks, remote controls, etc.), software for visual and virtual computing, platforms for automotive infotainment systems and cloud collaboration platforms.
Net sales break down by industry between data storage (88.3%), gaming (8.7%), professional visualization (1.4%), automotive (1.3%) and other (0.3%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (46.9%), Singapore (18.2%), Taiwan (15.8%), China and Hong Kong (13.1%) and other (6%).
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