Nokia Partners with Orange and NVIDIA to Build AI-Enhanced 6G Network
Nokia and Orange have announced a new partnership focused on the development and evaluation of AI-based Radio Access Network (AI-RAN) technologies, utilizing Nokia's anyRAN 5G software and NVIDIA's AI infrastructure. The initiative aims to explore how emerging AI-RAN capabilities can enhance network performance, energy efficiency, and enable new services for Orange customers.
Structured Co-Innovation Framework
Within a structured co-innovation framework, Nokia and Orange will jointly identify, design, and evaluate new AI-RAN capabilities. The collaboration explores how a GPU-based radio processor can enhance radio performance through more advanced receivers, and how AI can be tightly integrated into the RAN to further improve performance, support new services such as detection, and bring greater automation and intelligence to cloud-based and specialized RAN environments.
Advancing Towards 6G
As mobile networks evolve towards 6G, Nokia and Orange will jointly develop approaches to maximize the spectral efficiency of existing and future bands, including the upper 6 GHz band. The 6G-ready platform will enable a smooth software migration to 6G and support smarter use of computing resources within Orange's operational footprint.
Collaboration for Sustainable and Efficient Networks
By collaborating with Nokia and NVIDIA, Orange aims to deepen its understanding of how AI-enabled RAN functions can be seamlessly integrated into operational networks while ensuring sustainability and efficient resource use across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Orange is committed to building more efficient, adaptable, and sustainable networks. The collaboration particularly focuses on enhancing the efficiency of key radio algorithms such as scheduling, beamforming, and power optimization, thereby improving both spectral efficiency and energy performance, while enabling advanced capabilities like predictive optimization and radio detection.
