“6G will be foundational to how artificial intelligence scales across society and will be critical to the national security, economic prosperity, and global competitiveness of the United States,” said Borje Ekholm, president & CEO, Ericsson.
NEW DELHI: Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson said on Friday that it has successfully concluded the world’s first 6G pre-standard trial at its US headquarters in Plano, Texas, demonstrating artificial intelligence (AI)-powered robotics and real-time video streaming applications.
The sixth-generation network demonstration featured radio hardware, RAN Compute, software-defined air interfaces, and cloud platforms.
The pre-standard 6G stack utilised spectrum in the 7GHz range, and a carrier bandwidth of 400 MHz.
Ericsson said its software architecture is deployable on multiple hardware platforms, including CPU (Central Processing Units) and GPU (Graphics Processing Units).
While 6G trials and research & development (R&D) are underway globally, these commercial networks are expected to become available starting in 2030. 6G networks will be designed to sense, compute, and adapt in real time, enabling consistent low latency, higher uplink capacity, and new AI services.
“Ericsson’s 6G demonstration is an important milestone in next-generation wireless innovation, enabled by American ingenuity,” said Howard Lutnick, US Secretary of Commerce.
“6G will be foundational to how artificial intelligence scales across society and will be critical to the national security, economic prosperity, and global competitiveness of the United States,” said Borje Ekholm, president & CEO, Ericsson.
Ericsson, Qualcomm explore 6G
The Stockholm-headquartered vendor separately said that, together with Qualcomm, the companies have jointly developed and validated key physical-layer capabilities in a prototype environment, an essential first step toward shaping the next-generation standard.
Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies are also jointly prototyping emerging artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) applications with new device form-factors, building upon their broader collaboration on AI‑native and context-aware 6G networks with device–network collaborative compute and optimised uplink coverage.
Erik Ekudden, CTO at Ericsson, said, “Building an intelligent AI/6G fabric requires collaboration across the entire ecosystem…partnering with Qualcomm, we are transforming 6G from a concept into reality by validating its foundational capabilities through real-world prototypes.”
Durga Malladi, EVP & GM (technology planning, edge solutions & data center), Qualcomm Technologies, said, “Our collaboration with Ericsson is about making 6G real with significant performance benefits. By aligning early on key radio concepts and user-experience validation across devices and networks, we create a clearer path from lab to standard to commercial launch.”
Ericsson will manufacture next-generation 6G network equipment at its USA 5G Smart Factory in Lewisville, Texas, it said.
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