Pascal Lemasson

Breakthrough for the #quantum internet: For the first time a major telco provider has successfully conducted entangled photon experiments - on its own infrastructure. ➡️ 30 kilometers, 17 days, 99 per cent fidelity. Our teams at T-Labs have successfully transmitted entangled photons over a fiber-optic network. Over a distance comparable to travelling from Berlin to Potsdam. The system automatically compensated for changing environmental conditions in the network.   Together with our partner Qunnect we have demonstrated that quantum entanglement works reliably. The goal: a quantum internet that supports applications beyond secure point-to-point networks. Therefore, it is necessary to distribute the types of entangled photons. The so-called qubits, that are used for #QuantumComputing, sensors or memory. Polarization qubits, like the ones used for this test, are highly compatible with many quantum devices. But: they are difficult to stabilize in fibers.   From the lab to the streets of Berlin: This success is a decisive step towards the quantum internet​. 🔬 It​ shows how existing telecommunications infrastructure can support the quantum technologies of tomorrow. This opens the door to new forms of communication.   Why does this matter for people and society?   🗨️ Improved communications: The quantum internet promises faster and more efficient long-distance communications. 🔐 Maximum security: Entanglement can be used in quantum key distribution protocols. Enabling ultra-secure communication links for enterprises and government institutions 💡Technological advancement: high-precision time synchronization for satellite networks and highly accurate sensing in industrial IoT environments will need entanglement.   Developing quantum technologies isn’t just a technical challenge. A #humancentered approach asks how these systems can be built to serve real needs and be part of everyday infrastructure. With 2025 designated as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, now is the time to move from research to readiness. Matheus Sena, Marc Geitz, Riccardo Pascotto, Dr. Oliver Holschke, Abdu Mudesir

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🌌 LATEST Exciting developments in the world of 6G! This slide from CICT Mobile highlights the crucial link between use cases and technical requirements for 6G, particularly with AI as a Service (AlaaS). 🌌What use cases are you most excited about for 6G? Key areas of Research and Requirements for #6G, including: 🌃6G AlaaS requirements 🌃Integrated Sensing and Communication requirements 🌃6G Immersive Service requirements 🌃6G Verticals Services requirements 🌃Need for extremely low power consumption IoT 🌃Need for 6G wireless energy supply service Typical Usage Scenarios and Applications 🌃Smart City, Smart Home, Smart Industry, Smart Agriculture, Precision Healthcare, Smart Education, Smart Energy, Super Transportation, Internet Finance: These are the scenarios where 6G technology is expected to be applied. 🌃Unmanned Taxi, Industrial Robot, Food Cycle Network, Home Health, Unmanned Grazing, Disease Diagnosis, Virtual Class, Intelligent Inspection on Power Grids: These are specific applications within the aforementioned scenarios. 🌌🧊💧 AI is rapidly becoming integral to all facets of network technology, from user devices to network operations. In user devices, AI is driving demand for higher uplink speeds & enabling edge computing through smaller AI models. AI-RAN alliances, featuring major telecom players, are focused on leveraging AI to enhance radio access networks, including edge applications. Learn more about this topic by checking out this week's amazing debate on Global 5G Evolution on YouTube https://lnkd.in/gu3kEsbV 🌌🧊💧 🍓To gain monthly insights on #technology & #innovations, subscribe to #global5gevolution newsletter (https://lnkd.in/ge9gsyjE) & tune in for latest edition on “5G-Advanced” 🍓 Or subscribe #global5gevolution YouTube channel (https://lnkd.in/g8M7YvKq) & tune in for latest episode “IoT LEO Quantum Health AI”; click comment box 🍓 Follow us on Kaneshwaran Govindasamy & Global 5G Evolution #6G #AI #Telecom #Innovation

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I’m heading back from this year’s #PTC25. My overwhelming thought is how *exuberant* it seemed, especially compared to the dreary #mobile industry moaning in Europe at the moment. At home I am bombarded by MNOs complaining of flat revenues, or whining about so-called “OTTs”, while their executives mostly spend time trying to get regulators to help them gatekeep innovators with nonsense like “fair share”. Tedious industry bodies like GSMA & CTIA churn out report after report extolling their own virtues while exaggerating “traffic growth”, or pretending there’s an “investment gap”. They keep demanding more spectrum which they don’t need, and don’t know how to monetise. Bright spots like #Private5G, #NeutralHost and some #NetworkAPIs don’t outweigh the negatives. Meanwhile the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) community is focused on building infrastructure and keeping up with demand. Datacentres, #cloud platforms, AI *everywhere*, #satellite, subsea fibre, interconnects & wholesale and a universe of ancillaries - especially power infrastructure and optical gear - are all demonstrating huge growth. One speaker on a panel this morning suggested the world might spend $6-7 Trillion on AI-related infrastructure over the next decade. And then a few hours later, an announcement from OpenAI SoftBank Group Corp. Oracle & NVIDIA (not at PTC) demonstrated this could be an underestimate, with a promised $500bn investment just in the US, over four years. There’s plenty of investment and no “gap”. Unless you’re building things nobody wants, with a business model nobody believes, urged on by regulators or politicians with arbitrary goals that don’t stack up. Most telcos have sold their datacentres, and have little focus on longhaul or subsea fibre. Rather than densifying the fabric of internet exchanges and peering, they try to create transit monopolies and demand regulation of interconnect. They are also pathologically averse to being seen as utilities, while the datacentre crowd are pushing for infrastructure convergence - along with new investors from the energy sector. Power - whether that’s from hydro, nuclear, wind, solar, gas or whatever - is the new coolest thing. Apart from cooling. I heard one speaker expect to see 1MW compute racks in future. I’ve had two invitations to visit gigawatt-scale datacentre campuses. Last year I was surprised to hear about nuclear SMRs. This year the discussion is when, not if. While a couple of people mentioned AI inferencing as an emerging trend, nobody expects it to drive access-network usage or revenue growth in a major way. And edge inferencing is for on-device compute, or well-connected metros & 50MW DCs, not AI-RAN at a cell site or single-MNO network. And to be honest, #6G is the bug-fix evolution for #5G, not something particularly exciting either. I’m glad I won’t at MWC as usual. No FOMO at all. I’m intending to spend more time in the healthy, forward-looking part of the industry this year.

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Excited to see the adoption of the 5G standard for NTN by various players in the industry. Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)(工業技術研究院, 工研院) and MediaTek are instrumental in driving this advancement. Learn more about their collaboration with Chunghwa Telecom Co, Ltd. Telecom to revolutionize B5G satellite connectivity: https://lnkd.in/e6fGUkDc #5G #Technology #Innovation

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I am pleased to announce that HALYS is joining the growing list of EUWENA members. HALYS is a 4G/5G core network provider and a specialist in roaming solutions. As more and more countries allocate or are in the process of allocating frequencies for dedicated private #5G networks, it is important to show other European countries that the ecosystem is there and that they can follow suit. This is also a good time to announce that EUWENA will be updating the spectrum repository and that it will be presented at #CCW25 in June in Brussels. Many thanks to the HALYS team for its confidence in EUWENA, and in particular to Marc LOVIGHI TCCA-Critical Communications #ccw

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Ericsson in partnership with Mobily and MediaTek, successfully conducted 5G six-component carrier aggregation (6CC) on Mobily's live 5G Standalone (SA) network, achieving downlink throughput of 4.2 Gbps in Saudi Arabia using MediaTek’s latest 5G platform. This achievement marks the first global 5G 6CC Carrier Aggregation on a live 5G standalone network with 3 FDD + 3 TDD carriers. The test was conducted with advanced Ericsson Spectrum Sharing (ESS) and 5G Carrier Aggregation software features to aggregate six 5G carriers spanning a total spectrum of 310 MHz. This 5G 6CC CA test showcases Mobily’s strategic vision and commitment to harness both existing and newly acquired spectrum to deliver a premium 5G user experience and contribute to Saudi Arabia’s digital transformation journey in full alignment with Vision 2030. Omar Alomar, Mohammed AbuMansour, Mustafa Alsulami, Ahmed Roshdy, Hakan Cervell, Abdullah Abdulaziz Al-Kahtani, Wessam Anwar, Wessam Kayyali, PMP, Muneer Al-Alawi, Abdulraheem Alzubaidi, Karem Salem, Zohaib Ashraf, Alok Kumar Singh, Usman Shahab, Björn Karlberg, Frank Muller, Sergey Maximov, Eric Tai, Rami Osman #5G #SaudiArabia #vision2030 #DigitalTransformation #CarrierAggregation #TeamEricsson #TeamEricssonMEA

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🚀 The NVIDIA–Nokia Partnership: Thinking Beyond Telco While most headlines shout about 6G, Jensen Huang’s move with NVIDIA and Nokia is about something much bigger. This isn’t about radios — it’s about geography. The telecom network is the only industrial grid on the planet with power, fibre, and cooling everywhere. That makes it the perfect foundation for the next economy — a physical economy powered by robots, humanoids, and autonomous vehicles. To make that work, AI will need 10x more compute and 10x more reach than today’s cloud. And only telecom offers that reach. With NVIDIA’s new ARC platform — powered by Grace CPUs, Blackwell GPUs, and Spectrum X networking — every radio site can become a compact data centre. First, to run radio access. Next, to handle edge inference for machines operating in the real world. This is intelligence placement — compute positioned where the physical world lives and acts. The network that once carried voice will soon carry cognition. 🔹For Nokia, it’s a return to relevance. 🔹For operators, it’s a chance to monetise intelligent infrastructure. 🔹For NVIDIA, it’s about controlling the geography of AI. We’re already seeing glimpses of this future. T-Mobile’s AI-RAN Innovation Center with NVIDIA is exploring how RAN sites can double as compute nodes — running traditional network workloads and AI inference at the edge. But there’s a fascinating regulatory angle here too. Will authorities be comfortable with AI companies accessing or influencing RAN hardware — one of the most sensitive layers of telecom infrastructure? It’s a bold move that blurs the line between network operator and AI platform. One thing’s for sure: Jensen Huang is in the Telco room — and he’s thinking bigger than anyone else. #Telecom #NVIDIA #Nokia #EdgeComputing #AI #AutonomousSystems #6G #FutureOfAI #TelcoInnovation #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalInfrastructure #NetworkTransformation

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