Radio access network

And now I will oversimplify and remove some parts of the network.

But we have the radio access network.

That's basically these antennas at the stations that we have around the city of the country.

And we have the core network.

And in June, you made a big move taking the Ericsson Intelligent Automation Platform from the radio network right to the core.

What did you announce exactly for those who might have missed it and why?

right so we've been now very focused on on the run right on the radio access network and what uh what happened when we customers start to use eip and start to see the benefits from it they're like look we can really achieve very meaningful outcomes with this platform right we can run our own applications together with different applications we have a very open framework we have a really good sdk so we can develop we can evolve the automation but we really would like to expand that to the core network because the same concepts could be applied to the core network.

So would you bring the core data in so we can automate the core network?

That could become crucial for things like driverless cars, robotics, and emergency services.

That is where AI RAN, which stands for AI Radio Access Networks, come in, as Justin Hotard explains.

explains.So sometimes when you hear people talking about 6G, they're talking about new spectrum.

Mm-hmm.

And today we're going to talk about Okudu.

And that is going to be one of the podcasts in the Open RAN sort of subset.

I've been doing a lot of work on Open RAN, but I guess I've done more work on openness in the RAN.

And Open RAN is a way to get to a more open RAN or telecom network.

But I think that the real end game is to have openness in our networks.

And what we think about openness is openness at different levels.

So it's not just in the front-haul interface, but it's just end-to-end.

And I think that what I'm interested when I first learned about Okuru is that it's been expansion is moving a little bit further out from just opening the frontal interface, which is important, but it's only one interface and it doesn't, In of itself, open anything in a sense that there is a lot more that needs to happen before you get an open RAN, not with a capital O, a RAN that is open to different vendors, different approaches.