At Ericsson's D15 Innovation Hub in Santa Clara, California, the company works with Silicon Valley partners and operators to develop programmable networks and test advanced use cases including network slicing and AI-driven automation.
Through US-based businesses such as Vonage and Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions, Ericsson is also enabling enterprises to deploy private 5G networks, among other solutions, and integrate communications capabilities directly into their applications through open APIs.
Ericsson also continues to work with front-running customers such as AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon on the deployment of automated, AI-native networks. Recent milestones include the expansion of private 5G with Verizon Business, commercial trials of an AI-native scheduler with T-Mobile, and AT&T's deployment of AI-native software on Cloud RAN.
Today, at Ericsson's 300,000-square-foot USA 5G Smart Factory in Lewisville, Texas, production lines operate continuously. Since opening in March 2020, the facility has expanded its workforce threefold to more than 550 employees while increasing production volume eightfold by combining automation with human expertise.
This factory produces advanced hardware, including Massive MIMO and RAN compute, for major American communications service providers (CSPs), which both simplifies supply chains and shortens delivery times.
Earlier this year, at its Americas headquarters in Plano, Texas, Ericsson completed the world's first pre-standard 6G over-the-air session. The company also conducted a live trial of Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) technology, using existing massive-MIMO radio equipment to detect and track drones in the surrounding airspace and demonstrating how future networks could take on sensing functions beyond connectivity.