Fundamentals

As Turkcell adopts AI, initial use cases include energy savings, customer complaint forecasting and radio link failure prediction Looking back at the technological jump from 4G to 5G, marked by the move to cloud-native architecture and virtualized network functions—essentially a …

One more private 5G panel write-up, and it’s another cracker. Here, Peter Cappiello, chief executive at Future Technologies, Johnathan Lewis, director of innovation at Miami International Airport, and Dheeraj Remella, chief product officer at Volt Active Data hunkered down for …

Three workload distribution models are emerging for AI-RAN — RAN-only, RAN-heavy or AI-heavy In November, SoftBank announced that it successfully piloted the world’s first combined AI and 5G telecom network using the NVIDIA AI Aerial accelerated computing platform in an outdoor trial …

Energy consumption is one of the biggest factors of OpEx, says AI-RAN Alliance Chair Alex Jinsung Choi The reduction of operation expenses (OpEx) is a key priority for telecom operators, and according to Alex Jinsung Choi, chair of the AI-RAN …

Google Cloud sees telco AI “absorption rate” as an “incredible phenomenon”  Communications service providers (CSPs) are all-in on AI; makes sense given macro issues around a lack of effective network monetization despite a massive capital outlay which is putting pressure …

There are a whole bunch of headaches, of course, that come with scaling private 5G systems to new venues and new markets. Even if they have been proven at one site, and the use cases and business cases have been …

AT&T says it will shift 70% of its network traffic onto open and interoperable platforms by 2026 as part of its RAN modernization plan Last year, AT&T announced a roughly $14 billion plan to shift 70% of its network traffic …

Telefonica: “I think one of the killer apps of network programmability can be ML”  Before diving into the role of a programmable data plane in supporting telco AI applications, Telefonica Research’s Senior Research Scientist Eduard Marin Fabregas provided a bit …

Nokia sees gen AI enabling conversational networks in three to five years Nokia recently laid out its vision for a future network architecture that’s all about creating a network-cloud continuum that spans devices, edge and regional infrastructure, and the network …

There was some good chat about the drivers behind the surging interest from enterprises in private 5G at Industrial 5G Forum earlier this month. In truth, the same talking points kicked off just about every session, probably, but Canadian network …

To understand the commercial reality of cellular connectivity, in this case 5G, it’s important to understand the standardization work that set the stage for real-world deployments. So before we look into what’s coming from 3GPP in Releases 18, 19 and …

Appledore Research sees private 5G pulling $232 billion in annual enterprise spend by 2027 There was maybe always a disconnect between what the telecoms set wanted out of private 5G (and how quickly they wanted it) versus what the industrial …

Did Open RAN deliver on the technological and market-based promises it was meant to bring to? Tough question. And what were those initial promises again? We went back through the O-RAN Alliance archives to a white paper published in October …

End-to-end fronthaul testing, as well as isolation testing, provide the big picture and granular data needed to drive Open RAN adoption Given one of the primary goals of Open RAN—providing architectural flexibility by breaking up the centralized unit (CU), distributed …

The RIC can support quick wins but further standardization, and a more coherent approach to AI/ML integration, is needed to foster trust Back to this idea referenced in the introduction—how to leverage Open RAN interfaces for real-world innovation—it all comes …

Unlike OFDM and OFDMA, both of which modulate information within the time-frequency domain, OTFS does so within the Delay Doppler domain Certain high mobility environments, such as high-speed trains, pose a challenge for communications systems due to significant Doppler spreads …

AI is being explored in 5G-Advanced and expected to play a more important role in the 6G air interface The building blocks for the use of artificial intelligence in the air interface are being developed and put together in 5G-Advanced, …

At the 6G Forum, panelists said it’s time to rethink the way spectrum has been made available and deployed Panelists at the 6G Forum seemed to agree that when thinking about the spectrum needs in 6G, it’s less about new …

Data center industry sees strong growth continuing, driven by AI LANSDOWNE, Virginia—The data center industry is seeing explosive growth, and some market observers have called 2024 a “turning point” for the space. Citi Research has estimated data centers’ market size …

What do data center solutions provider see happening in generative AI use cases? LANSDOWNE, Virginia—On a sunny, 77-degree November day amid rolling green lawns not far from northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley, representatives from the data center industry filled a …

If you like lists – and who doesn’t? – and you also like private 5G, Industry 4.0, IoT, and all of that jazz (who doesn’t?), then the new report from SNS Telecom & IT might just be for you. It has …

Consultancy firms love to talk, don’t they; and digital transformation (also covering private 5G) is surely their favourite topic. It is just the way they are built – to chat and discuss, with a view to delegate and collaborate (‘co-create’), …

Open RAN technology is proven and operators are committed, but the lingering questions around integration costs and lifecycle management in a multi-vendor network remain A panel comprising a leading Open RAN vendor, a leading Open RAN test firm, and a …

CommScope sees market opportunity, TCO, ecosystem support and convergence all making the case for in-building Open RAN Reflecting on the typical 10-year cellular generation cycle, as well as the roughly 20-year lifecycle of a G, CommScope’s Luigi Tarlazzi, vice president …

Demand forecasting and anomaly detection are AI capabilities that Google sees as accelerating numerous additional use cases. A very material amount of all internet traffic, around 60% to 70%, runs through the Google Global Network. In reaching that scale, the …