Ericsson

Archana Khetan, SVP of Product Management and Technical Marketing at Ericsson, explains how the company distinguishes itself through wireless WAN solutions designed for mobile connectivity in vehicles, IoT, and mission-critical deployments where connectivity loss affects public safety.

Archana Khetan, SVP, Product Management and Technical Marketing at Ericsson, presents three key predictions for 2026: cellular technology becomes a viable alternative to wired connections as customers actively consider it due to technological advancements and financial viability; geopolitical factors drive adoption of sovereign and private cloud solutions for security and autonomy; and DDR4 memory shortages impact network product lifecycles across the industry.

Anubhav Arora, VP of Engineering for Security and AI at Ericsson, outlines the company's enterprise wireless solutions including their 5G SASSY technology and clientless ZTNA for secure third-party access. He describes how their solutions address cellular connectivity challenges while highlighting the increasing role of AI and autonomous systems in managing network and security operations.

Archana Khetan, SVP, Product Management and Technical Marketing at Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions, in this extended cut, explains how AI is reshaping enterprise operations. She outlines their three-phase AI journey to transform their NetCloud Manager platform into a system that enables autonomous network operations, featuring their virtual assistant ANA.

Archana Khetan, SVP, Product Management and Technical Marketing at Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions, explains how AI is reshaping enterprise operations, with 84% of business leaders viewing AI as critical to organizational success within three years. She outlines their strategy to transform their NetCloud platform into an AI-native system.

Freddie Södergren, VP Head of Technology & Strategy for Business Area Networks at Ericsson, outlines the company's vision for future networks that combine high performance with programmability to support emerging use cases and tailored connectivity. He emphasizes how AI enhances RAN performance and network automation while highlighting the need to build infrastructure that efficiently handles distributed AI workloads with optimal latency and throughput.

SailGP is turning heads with its cutting-edge F50 foiling catamarans. It's a data intensive sport requiring the best in network connectivity. Warren Jones, CTO at SailGP, and Jonathan Fischer, Global VP of OEM and Embedded Technologies at Ericsson discuss how Private 5G is making it happen.

Archana Khetan, SVP of Product Management and Technical Marketing at Ericsson Enterprise Wireless, anticipates major networking shifts in 2025, including wider WAN adoption and expanded AI capabilities beyond operations. She expects the integration of 5G and AI will enable new edge computing applications, particularly for mobile scenarios, while emphasizing distributed security solutions for AI implementations.

Archana Khetan, SVP of Product Management and Technical Marketing at Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions, introduces NetCloud SASE as the industry's only unified single-vendor SASE solution designed for wireless WAN with zero-trust architecture. The solution leverages cellular intelligence, integrated security, and AI-assisted deployment to deliver reliable connectivity and simplified management for enterprise networks.

Jean-Christophe Laneri, VP and Head of Cognitive Network Solutions at Ericsson, reveals that the company is a leading partner in providing high-performance networks, with a focus on using AI to manage urgent issues and facilitate strategic transformation. Ericsson employs top optimization engineers, develops its own AI algorithms for its cognitive software solution, and focuses its AI applied research on graph neural network algorithms and large language models to support customer transformation and bring innovative use cases to the market.

Soumen Chatterjee, VP Product Management, NetCloud SASE, Enterprise Wireless Solutions at Ericsson, discusses Ericsson's 5G SASE solution. The solution combines 5G networking and security to provide resilient connectivity for various applications, including IoT devices, mobile users, and fixed locations.

Ericsson's Jan Karlsson discusses an API demonstration linking Zoom and Vonage with resources in the 5G networks of Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone. The ambition is for all three operators to use the same QoD API, defined, developed and documented in CAMARA, the open source project driven by Linux Foundation in collaboration with GSMA, which is available for all operators to implement thereby maximizing the potential benefits for the developer community.

What’s the potential for 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)? Has the technology or market conditions changed in 2023? Hear the #MWC23 perspective of John Yazlle, Head of FWA, Ericsson.

Service Providers are challenged with complexity and technologies coming into deployment, such as network slicing, disaggregation, and virtualization of RAN infrastructure, only add to the challenge. Here is a perspective from Santiago Rodriguez, Head of Strategic Projects, Lead of Intelligent Automation Platform, at Ericsson.

Lars Mårtensson, VP & Head of Solution Area Cloud and NFVi & Head of Ericsson Silicon Valley, shares his thoughts on the progress of NFV and what's next including containers and Kubernetes as well as the move toward the edge.

When we look at how the industry evolves toward cloudification, virtualization and containers, we see that this is really there to support 5G, says Anders Rosengren, Head of Architecture and Technology, Digital Services, Ericsson. Apart from the cloud infrastructure, carriers must also consider how their network functions will evolve to virtualized and then to cloud-native.