Huawei taps AI to boost network productivity

Mobile phone giant, Huawei has unveiled a plan to integrate AI into networks to boost its productivity.

Speaking at the MWC Shanghai 2024 5G-A and AI roundtable, Huawei Wireless Solution’s VP and CMO Eric Zhao, revealed the vendor aims to create an ecosystem of RAN Intelligent Agents in partnership with telecom operators to boost network productivity.


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As a result, the initial phase will involve 1,000 site engineers and 10,000 sites in Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Bangkok, Jinan and Shenzhen over the next six months.

Zhao said: “After three years of arduous efforts, the telecom sector has seen 5G-Advanced (5G-A) progress from vision to reality, and 2024 has been hailed as the first year of commercial 5G-A. To date, 5G-A has displayed quite impressive performance in terms of network, business, and device developments.

“Now, mobile networks face growing challenges related to complicated O&M, differentiated network characteristics, and diverse experience-driven operations. In line with this trend, Huawei has proposed bringing AI to networks, that is to build The RAN Intelligent Agent that can reshape network O&M, experience, and services.

According to the company, integrating AI into 5G-A networks will significantly enhance productivity, with the RAN Intelligent.

It added the RAN Intelligent Agent provides copilots that help role-based chatbots and agents that support scenario-based solution automation.

This AI-based assistant autonomously generates solution policies from extensive expert knowledge, markedly increasing efficiency, the vendor stated.

Zhao added: “Our goal is to bring AI to networks. To achieve this, we will, for our part, shift from a solution provider to a co-builder of intelligent networks. We believe the co-growth of RAN Intelligent Agent and networks will create more extensive business value, transform networks more rapidly, and lead our industry into a new era of intelligence.”