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Understanding the AI-RAN Concept Through Use Cases – AI for RAN, AI and RAN, and AI on RAN

At present, as mobile communications evolve beyond 5G toward 6G, AI-RAN has emerged as one of the most prominent and critical keywords. Its significance lies not merely in the idea of “adding AI to RAN,” but in the much broader ambition of redesigning the radio access network itself around AI. In this article, we organize the concept of AI-RAN and, through analysis of real-world d...

01/27/2026

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Newgens Launches Korea’s First AI-RAN-Based Private 5G Network Trial at Gimpo Airport

<AI-RAN-Based Private 5G Testbed in the International Terminal of Gimpo Airport> <Conceptual Diagram of the Gimpo Airport Demonstration Network, 2025. Source: Ministry of Science and ICT> On August 22, Newgens announced that it had been selected on July 30 as the lead organization for the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT)–affiliated National Information Society Agenc...

08/22/2025

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Orange France and Samsung Establish a Strategic Partnership Focused on vRAN and Open RA...

Orange France and Samsung Establish a Strategic Partnership Focused on vRAN and Open RAN with a First Pilot in the Field Upon a series of comprehensive tests, the companies have progressed from lab to field to further explore the performance maturity and operational effectiveness of open, virtualized RAN solutions Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Orange France, one of Europe’s le...

07/03/2025

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HFR successfully interfaces Radio Unit (RU) with SK Telecom's Open RAN Demonstration Ne...

Networking specialist HFR recently announced that it has successfully demonstrated its Radio Unit (RU) based on an open fronthaul interface in collaboration with SK Telecom. By interworking a legacy vendor's virtualized base station (O-DU) with HFR's 5G radio unit (O-RU), the company established an Open RAN-based network in a real indoor office environment, marking an important tech...

04/18/2025

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Samsung Advances AI in Mobile Networks with NVIDIA

Samsung showcased significant progress in technology and ecosystem development of AI-RAN, unlocking the full potential of software-based networks with NVIDIA’s AI platform Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced that the company is working with NVIDIA to advance AI-RAN technologies. The collaboration underscores Samsung's commitment to fostering a robust ecosystem and divers...

03/13/2025

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Samsung Showcases CognitiV NOS Copilot on AWS Cloud at Mobile World Congress 2025

Samsung demonstrates how AI can be applied to radio access networks to drive meaningful impact with AWS Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced a joint demonstration of Samsung CognitiV Network Operations Suite (NOS) Copilot, an evolved AI assistant within Samsung’s automation platform, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) at Mobile World Congress (MWC). Using Amazon Bedrock, a fully...

03/03/2025

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Verizon infuses AI in network, accelerates Open RAN innovation with multi-vendor RAN In...

Industry collaboration with Samsung and Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of technology and enhances network efficiency and sustainability Verizon, in collaboration with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has successfully deployed multi-vendor RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) functionality in its commercial network. This deployment marks a significant advancement in...

02/26/2025

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Samsung Selected by Vodafone Romania for Open RAN Rollout

Romania’s major urban cities will be connected by Samsung’s advanced 2G, 4G and 5G Open RAN solutions—transitioning to modern and open network architecture Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced that it has been selected by Vodafone Romania to deploy its fully virtualized RAN software (vRAN) and radio solutions for the Open RAN rollout across Romania. This commercia...

02/20/2024

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SK Telecom and NTT DOCOMO Release White Paper on Key Considerations for vRAN

SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM, “SKT”) and NTT DOCOMO, INC. (“DOCOMO”) today announced their joint release of the virtualized RAN (vRAN) white paper, “Key Considerations for vRAN: Insights from SK Telecom and DOCOMO.” The white paper reviews the future prospects of vRAN base station equipment for telcos, leveraging the collective expertise of the two companies in...

02/20/2024

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TELUS Partners with Samsung to Build Canada’s First 5G Virtualized RAN, Open RAN Network

TELUS to supercharge its 5G network using Samsung’s vRAN 3.0 and Open RAN solutions – improving performance, energy efficiency and flexibility for future enhancements TELUS and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced today that they will build Canada’s first commercial virtualized and open radio access network (RAN) – an intelligent, next-generation technology that o...

02/15/2024

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Samsung and Vodafone Complete First Data Call With AMD Processors on an Open RAN Network

Companies reinforce Open RAN expansion, leveraging their technical expertise amassed from large-scale commercial Open RAN network deployment SEOUL, Korea – February [13], 2024 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Vodafone, in collaboration with AMD, today announced that the three companies have successfully demonstrated an end-to-end call with the latest AMD processors enabling O...

02/13/2024

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Samsung, Verizon and Keysight Advance Commercial Open RAN with Extensive Conformance an...

Testing across portfolio of radios illustrates Samsung's virtualized Open RAN leadership and advancements with its Massive MIMO radios Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced they have completed Open RAN conformance and interoperability testing for commercial-grade LTE and 5G NR radios for Verizon’s network. Leveraging Samsung’s extensive expertise in the vRAN and Open...

02/13/2024

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SKT presents the direction of Open RAN evolution on the global stage, together with HFR...

In the photo, SKT representatives are preparing to present at Plugfest. Participated in 'Plugfest' organized by O-RAN Alliance to present results of Open RAN-related technology tests Collaborating with various global and local companies to showcase Korea's Open RAN technology to the world Expanding the ecosystem by hosting the O-RAN Alliance Standardization Meeting in Korea nex...

12/08/2023

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HFR Inc, announces a successful completion of the O-RAN Alliance openness and conforman...

Verifying interoperability on the global stage with ORAN-based Private 5G(P5G) network solutions (vCU/DU, O-RU) Providing affordable P5G solutions to public institutions, small and medium-sized enterprises(SME) with reasonable cost HFR presented private 5G(P5G) network solutions developed with O-RAN standard at Plugfest Fall 2022 hosted by O-RAN Alliance and completed O-RAN openness and conf...

12/29/2022

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Verizon and Samsung Complete Fully Virtualized 5G Data Session on C-band Spectrum

Trial used cloud-native end-to-end virtualization and Massive MIMO technology to optimize 5G performance on C-band spectrum Verizon and Samsung Electronics recently completed an end-to-end fully virtualized 5G data session over C-band spectrum in a live network environment. The new milestone was reached in preparation for its upcoming 5G Ultra Wideband expansion using its newly acquired C Ban...

07/27/2021

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Samsung to Bring Open RAN to Europe With Vodafone UK

Vodafone UK selects Samsung for Europe’s first wide-scale commercial deployment of Open RAN powered by vRAN; Samsung enters Europe with its latest 5G solutions Samsung Electronics today announced that it has been selected as a leading Open RAN vendor for Vodafone, a major telecommunications company, to bring virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) to the United Kingdom (UK), as well as...

06/14/2021

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HFR Networks' flexiHaul M6424 Time-Sensitive Networking Switch - Packet xHaul

HFR Networks recently delivered the industry’s first RAN packet transport solution with our M-Series products. In partnership with Fujitsu Network Communications, we are working with Tier-1 service providers in the United States to reduce deployment and operational costs while facilitating a fast and smooth evolution to 5G wireless technologies. Solutions provided mark an import...

05/17/2021

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Vodafone revealed Open RAN Radio Unit Frontrunners

10/08/2020

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WDM Technologies for 5G Carrying Network

5G Application Scenarios The development of 5G networks starting in 2019 is generally believed to bring changes not limited to people’s daily life. It will support the evolution of Internet from mobile internet to intelligent internet, which will influence the industrial-ecology deeply. The international standard organization 3GPP defined the three main application scenarios of 5G: e...

09/28/2020

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Samsung’s CDU50 Next Generation Baseband Unit Advances 5G Evolution with Cutting-Edge T...

Samsung’s new BBU provides six times greater capacity and flexibility in deployment, designed to support both DRAN and CRAN Samsung Electronics today announced the commercial availability of its next generation Baseband Unit (BBU), the CDU50. The new solution was first commercialized in Korea and will be commercially launched in the U.S. and other global markets in the second quart...

02/27/2020

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