If operators can reuse more hardware and push upgrades through cloud native software, the jump from one generation to the next may start to look less like a rip and replace and more like a continuous evolution.

Generationless is a good word.

Uh, the, the fact is 6G and 5G won't be that different.

Um, I-- my view is that the 6G core is really just the 5G SA core, and they're gonna put a, a, you know, some AI features on to optimize it better and things.

Uh, but the, the changes are minimal.

Uh, and it's the same thing on the radio side.

Uh, 6G radio will look very much like the 5G radio.

They frame it as either normalized, narrowed, or folded into the larger software and AI architecture conversation.