Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
While the industry remains in the early stages of AI adoption, experts from Nokia, Rakuten Symphony, Red Hat and Appledore Research discuss some of its more immediate benefits, such as 25% energy-efficiency gains and significant improvements in spectral efficiency and signal detection. They emphasise that AI RAN should be viewed as a revenue-generating platform rather than just an efficiency tool, enabling new services, such as integrated sensing and physical AI through AI-native cloud foundations.
00:00 - Introduction: The Emergence of AI RAN
01:38 - The Current Reality of AI RAN
05:05 - Early Deployments, Trials & Energy Savings
07:59 - What Measurable Benefits Can Operators Expect?
10:38 - AI RAN: Spectral Efficiency & Network Automation
14:22 - Turning AI RAN Benefits Into Business Value
16:34 - Beyond Efficiency: AI RAN as a Revenue Platform
19:38 - AI for RAN vs. AI in RAN vs. AI on RAN
22:55 - Edge AI, Sensing & New Commercial Opportunities
26:02 - Trust, Risk Management & AI Decision-Making
28:26 - How Should Operators Architect for AI RAN?
30:26 - Building the Foundations: Microservices, Data & AI Operations
33:01 - Will NVIDIA Drive AI RAN Adoption?
34:56 - The Business Case for NVIDIA & AI RAN
36:01 - GPU vs. CPU: Performance, Power & Commercial Readiness
37:21 - Nokia + NVIDIA: Building an AI-Native RAN
39:15 - Closing Remarks
While the industry remains in the early stages of AI adoption, experts from Nokia, Rakuten Symphony, Red Hat and Appledore Research discuss some of its more immediate benefits, such as 25% energy-efficiency gains and significant improvements in spectral efficiency and signal detection. They emphasise that AI RAN should be viewed as a revenue-generating platform rather than just an efficiency tool, enabling new services, such as integrated sensing and physical AI through AI-native cloud foundations.
00:00 - Introduction: The Emergence of AI RAN
01:38 - The Current Reality of AI RAN
05:05 - Early Deployments, Trials & Energy Savings
07:59 - What Measurable Benefits Can Operators Expect?
10:38 - AI RAN: Spectral Efficiency & Network Automation
14:22 - Turning AI RAN Benefits Into Business Value
16:34 - Beyond Efficiency: AI RAN as a Revenue Platform
19:38 - AI for RAN vs. AI in RAN vs. AI on RAN
22:55 - Edge AI, Sensing & New Commercial Opportunities
26:02 - Trust, Risk Management & AI Decision-Making
28:26 - How Should Operators Architect for AI RAN?
30:26 - Building the Foundations: Microservices, Data & AI Operations
33:01 - Will NVIDIA Drive AI RAN Adoption?
34:56 - The Business Case for NVIDIA & AI RAN
36:01 - GPU vs. CPU: Performance, Power & Commercial Readiness
37:21 - Nokia + NVIDIA: Building an AI-Native RAN
39:15 - Closing Remarks
