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Nokia and Orange announced a collaboration to develop artificial intelligence radio access network (AI-RAN) technologies using Nokia’s anyRAN 5G software and NVIDIA AI infrastructure. The partnership aims to enhance network performance and energy efficiency while enabling new services for Orange customers.
The companies will jointly identify, design and evaluate AI-RAN capabilities through a structured co-innovation framework. The collaboration will explore how GPU-based radio processors can improve radio performance with advanced receivers and how AI integration into RAN systems can support new services including sensing capabilities.
The initiative focuses on maximizing spectral efficiency of existing and future frequency bands, including the upper 6 GHz band, as mobile networks prepare for 6G evolution. The platform will enable software-defined migration to 6G and support optimized compute resource utilization across Orange’s operations.
Orange plans to integrate AI-enabled RAN functions into operational networks across Europe, the Middle East and Africa while maintaining sustainability and efficient resource utilization.
"Orange is committed to building more efficient, adaptable and sustainable networks," said Laurent Leboucher, Group CTO at Orange. "This collaboration is an important step in our long-term network strategy."
Pallavi Mahajan, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Nokia, said the collaboration explores how Nokia and NVIDIA’s AI-RAN solution combines advanced AI and RAN functions in a unified architecture to enable the transition toward AI-native networks.
The partnership builds on Nokia and Orange’s existing strategic relationship and represents Orange’s broader evolution toward flexible, sustainable and AI-native radio network infrastructure.