Orange, Nokia, and Nvidia partner to develop AI-RAN technologies
Nokia and Orange have announced a new collaboration focused on the development and evaluation of Artificial Intelligence Radio Access Network (AI-RAN) technologies, leveraging Nokia's anyRAN 5G software and Nvidia's AI infrastructure.
The initiative aims to explore how new AI-RAN capabilities can enhance network performance and energy efficiency while enabling new services for the French telecom operator's customers.
Under this framework, Nokia and Orange will jointly identify, design, and evaluate new AI-RAN capabilities. The collaboration seeks to explore how a GPU-based radio processor can optimize radio performance through more advanced receivers.
They will also assess how AI can be tightly integrated into the RAN to further boost performance, support new services such as sensing, and bring increased automation and intelligence to RAN environments.
As mobile networks evolve toward 6G, the Finnish network equipment provider and Orange will also co-develop approaches to maximize spectral efficiency for existing and future bands, including the upper 6 GHz band.
"The 6G-ready platform will enable a seamless, software-driven migration to 6G and foster smarter utilization of computing resources across Orange's entire network," the two groups explained.
Orange is the French leader of telecommunications company. Net sales (including intragroup) break down by activity as follows:
- telecommunication services for individuals (78.2%): mobile telephone services (272.8 million clients at the end of 2025; Orange brand in France, Orange Belgium in Belgium, Orange Communications Luxembourg in Luxembourg, MásOrange in Spain, Orange Polska in Poland, etc.), fixed telephone services and Internet access (38.1 million clients). The group also offers services for telecommunication operators. Net sales break down by country between France (54.6%), Europe (21.8%), Africa and Middle East (23.6%);
- telecommunication services to businesses (117.2%): Internet access services, mobile telephone, voice and data transmission services and integration and information management for communication applications;
- telecommunication services to international telecommunication operators (2.9%);
- operation of passive mobile infrastructure (1.7%; Totem): management of a portfolio of approximately 27,000 telecommunications towers in France and Spain.
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