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Nokia and Deutsche Telekom Deepen AI-Native RAN and Open Architecture Collaboration
Summary
Nokia and Deutsche Telekom expanded strategic collaboration focusing on AI-native RAN architecture development and multi-vendor Open RAN integration. They will advance cloud RAN, open fronthaul interoperability, and AI-driven network optimization use cases validation to build high-performance, automated mobile network infrastructure.
Key Takeaways
Nokia and Deutsche Telekom announced an expanded innovation partnership program, focusing on supporting Deutsche Telekom's Open RAN strategy. Collaboration includes enhanced open fronthaul (OFH) integration and multi-vendor cloud RAN projects, advancing vendor-agnostic Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) platform.
In AI-native RAN domain, the partners established strategic co-creation relationship, focusing on developing AI-driven receivers, channel estimation, adaptive beamforming and predictive network optimization use cases. These technologies will be validated in lab and live network environments, jointly building open, disaggregated AI-native RAN architecture.
In AI-native RAN domain, the partners established strategic co-creation relationship, focusing on developing AI-driven receivers, channel estimation, adaptive beamforming and predictive network optimization use cases. These technologies will be validated in lab and live network environments, jointly building open, disaggregated AI-native RAN architecture.
Why It Matters
此次合作体现了主流设备商通过AI原生架构强化开放RAN战略，推动多厂商网络自动化从概念验证走向现网部署，可能加速电信网络架构向云原生和AI驱动转型。...