The Future of RAN

TelecomTV’s Future of RAN summit returns for its seventh consecutive year. It examines how operators can transition from today’s fragmented mix of legacy, virtualised and cloud-native architectures toward intelligent, software-driven networks shaped by AI. With Open RAN moving into stable commercial deployment and cloud RAN gaining maturity, the next disruptive step is the AI-RAN model, which promises major advances in optimisation, energy reduction and agile service creation. The summit explores what AI RAN can realistically deliver, how it will reshape vendor and operator strategies, and what foundations are still missing. It also evaluates how modernisation can support large legacy RAN deployments where performance demands and cost pressures continue to intensify.