TELUS deploys Samsung’s AI-powered RIC for community transformation, driving higher intelligence and automation throughout its vRAN and O-RAN community
Samsung Electronics and TELUS at this time introduced that they are going to deploy Canada’s first industrial Radio Access Network Intelligent Controller (RIC), marking a major milestone towards absolutely software-based, AI-powered networks. Samsung will present its RIC resolution, together with open multi-vendor assist and a wealthy suite of functions as a part of Samsung CognitiV Network Operations Suite (NOS), to additional allow clever automation, enhanced power effectivity and optimized efficiency throughout TELUS’ wi-fi community.
The RIC is a software-based element in Open RAN (O-RAN) structure that makes use of AI and automation to optimize community efficiency with clever functions. It allows operators to flexibly deploy and handle various functions for complete monitoring and evaluation in addition to energy-saving operations, serving to them optimize networks, handle assets effectivity and elevate service high quality.
This RIC deployment represents the subsequent part of TELUS and Samsung’s ongoing collaboration to remodel Canada’s telecommunications panorama. Following the businesses’ announcement of Canada’s first industrial virtualized and O-RAN community in February 2024, the RIC implementation will allow TELUS to harness AI all through community operations and administration – considerably boosting operational effectivity with potential to scale back prices.
“We are excited to broaden our collaboration with Samsung to transform our network and enhance the customer experience using AI,” mentioned Bernard Bureau, Vice President of Wireless Strategy & Services at TELUS. “This partnership aligns closely with our commitment to responsible sovereign AI development and will enable us to provide more personalized, efficient and sustainable services. Importantly, it also allows us to manage and optimize RAN equipment from multiple vendors through a single, unified platform, maintaining the diversity and flexibility that are core principles of O-RAN.”
“AI is ushering in a new era of possibilities and in order to fully realize its potential across industries, the right foundation is critical. At Samsung, we believe vRAN is the best way forward on the path to AI-RAN, built on an end-to-end software-based architecture that provides the optimal foundation for AI. We are actively supporting our customers’ AI journey today with our proven vRAN and AI-powered solutions including RIC,” mentioned Angelo Jeongho Park, Executive Vice President and Head of Global Sales & Marketing, Networks Business at Samsung Electronics. “As Canada’s leader in vRAN and Open RAN, TELUS is very well-positioned to lead the way in bringing AI into the networks. Together with TELUS, we are fueling the transition to a more intelligent and autonomous network.”
Samsung’s RIC resolution helps each legacy hardware-based and open virtualized networks, permitting TELUS to implement clever automation throughout its whole community infrastructure. This functionality permits TELUS to achieve speedy advantages whereas sustaining its accelerated vRAN deployment throughout Canadian markets.
Samsung’s choices embody the KPI Anomaly Detector (KAD) and RAN Anomaly Insight (RAI) to proactively establish and analyze community points, Energy Saving Manager (ESM) to carry out dynamic site visitors prediction and automatic orchestration of various power saving options and Load Balancing Manager (LBM) to optimize useful resource utilization and enhance community efficiency and reliability. Samsung’s O-RAN compliant RIC resolution seamlessly helps clever functions from Samsung in addition to third events, guaranteeing TELUS can leverage the very best improvements throughout the business.
Samsung’s preliminary supply of software program options was accomplished in July, and can proceed all through 2025. The…
