Inferencing for generative AI and AI agents will drive the need for AI compute infrastructure to be distributed from edge to central clouds. IDC predicts that “Business AI (consumer excluded) will contribute $19.9 trillion to the global economy and account for 3.5% of GDP by 2030.” 5G networks must also evolve to serve this new incoming AI traffic. At the same time, there is an opportunity…
]]>The pace of 5G investment and adoption is accelerating. According to the GSMA Mobile Economy 2023 report, nearly $1.4 trillion will be spent on 5G CapEx, between 2023 and 2030. Radio access network (RAN) may account for over 60% of the spend. Increasingly, the CapEx spend is moving from the traditional approach with proprietary hardware, to virtualized RAN (vRAN) and Open RAN architectures…
]]>The telecom industry has been pivotal in driving digital transformation across society. For over a century, and from fixed to mobile communications, the industry has incubated and nurtured the technologies that provide the connectivity fabric for people across the globe. In the 5G era, this pivotal role now includes providing untethered and ubiquitous high-speed data connectivity for a multitude…
]]>The cellular industry spends over $50 billion on radio access networks (RAN) annually, according to a recent GSMA report on the mobile economy. Dedicated and overprovisioned hardware is primarily used to provide capacity for peak demand. As a result, most RAN sites have an average utilization below 25%. This has been the industry reality for years as technology evolved from 2G to 4G.
]]>The time that it took to discover the COVID-19 vaccine is a testament to the pace of innovation in the healthcare industry. Pace of innovation can be directly linked to the thriving innovator ecosystem and the large number of AI-based healthcare startups. In comparison, the 5G wireless industry takes approximately a decade to introduce next generation systems. The O-RAN Alliance is pioneering…
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