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.
