Nokia advances AI-RAN toward commercial deployment and physical AI, launches sovereign agentic AI platform for telco autonomy with NVIDIA
Key Highlights
- ➤AI-RAN integrated into live networks, moving Nokia closer to commercial deployment
- ➤Deutsche Telekom trials showed 10–15% typical uplink throughput improvements in laboratory measurements
- ➤Elisa demonstrated simultaneous voice, mobile data and video analytics on a live 5G AI-RAN platform
- ➤Nokia and NVIDIA launched a sovereign agentic AI platform for cross-domain telco autonomy
- ➤BT, Deutsche Telekom, Elisa and Orange advanced AI-RAN trials, evaluations and testing plans
Expert Statements
Pallavi Mahajan, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Nokia
“The next era of connectivity will be defined by networks that do far more than connect: They will distribute intelligence, continuously optimize performance and enable entirely new AI-powered services, including the emerging world of physical AI”
Pallavi Mahajan, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Nokia
“Together with NVIDIA and leading operators, Nokia is turning this vision into reality by bringing AI into the radio network and across network operations. This creates a trusted, software-defined foundation that helps operators get more from their spectrum today while enabling new Physical AI use cases and opening a practical path toward increasingly autonomous, AI-native 6G networks.”
Ronnie Vasishta, Senior Vice President, Telecom at NVIDIA
“The next generation of telecommunications infrastructure will be built on a software-defined architecture.”
Ronnie Vasishta, Senior Vice President, Telecom at NVIDIA
“NVIDIA and Nokia are combining CUDA accelerated computing and AI with Nokia’s network software and expertise to improve radio performance and deploy trusted AI agents. Together, we are advancing software-defined, AI-native 5G and laying the foundation for 6G.”
Nokia advances AI-RAN toward commercial deployment and physical AI, launches sovereign agentic AI platform for telco autonomy with NVIDIA * New capabilities improve radio performance, enable real-time intelligence at the edge and extend governed AI agents across network operations. * Nokia AI-native anyRAN software and NVIDIA accelerated computing turn the radio access network into a distributed platform for sensing, intelligence and real-time action. * BT, Deutsche Telekom, Elisa and Orange provide growing evidence of AI-RAN progress among European operators. * dApps and an expanding infrastructure ecosystem extend the platform for physical-AI and edge-AI applications. 21 October 2026
Berlin, Germany – Nokia today announced the next step in how it is bringing AI-native networks to commercial reality with NVIDIA, with new capabilities that apply AI within radio processing, support intelligence close to where data is generated and extend governed AI agents for cross-domain network operations. Building on the industry’s first commercial AI-RAN platform, announced in July, AI-RAN is being integrated into live networks and moving closer to deployment. Together, Nokia and NVIDIA are creating the real-time network foundation needed for physical-AI applications while giving operators a practical path to improve today’s 5G and 5G Advanced networks and evolve to AI-native 6G.
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