Ericsson 5G: made for Canada
Ericsson helps make a Connected Canada possible by supporting R&D, innovation, and sustainability across our customer and partner base. We enable Canada’s industries to lead on the world stage, supporting major service providers and collaborating with leading players in academia, business and government. We’re committed to advancing Canada’s digital agenda as a major partner in the Canadian innovation landscape, investing in the development of turning point technologies like 5G Advanced, 6G, AI, Cloud RAN, and Core Network, as well as fostering world-class Canadian talent. Our sustainability efforts span across our customer base as we work directly with Canadian providers to meet their Net Zero targets as well as our own.
In Canada, Ericsson provides infrastructure products and services for major service providers like Bell, EastLink, Rogers, TBAYTEL, TELUS, Videotron and Xplore on their path to nationwide 5G rollout and beyond. We also enable private network solutions and critical infrastructure to remote mines and utilities across the country through client partnerships with Ambra, Hydro BC, Hydro One, Hydro Quebec and more. We have partnered with the Government of Canada and over 20 Canadian universities to advance product and talent development, including a Global AI Accelerator and Ericsson’s largest R&D site in North America.
Empowering connected societies
A number of technologies shape tomorrow’s connected societies. By evolving these technologies we evolve the network platform, a platform that will fundamentally change the way our societies innovate, collaborate, produce, govern and live sustainably. This will not only change the telecom industry, it will create new opportunities for other industries and different kinds of business models.
Research and Development in Canada
With state-of-the-art 5G R&D centers and offices in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, we are working closely with partners, Canadian telecommunications leaders and the Canadian government to rollout a secure 5G network for the entire country.
Ericsson Canada’s R&D sites fulfill worldwide mandates in development, testing and support of wireless networks and advanced user multimedia services. Our contribution to the global wireless communications industry spans several sites, labs and product areas. Our Canadian teams are prolific creators of intellectual property and contributors to the Ericsson patent portfolio, with more than 100 Invention Disclosures per year. We have been awarded over $15M from our funding partners, Mitacs and NSERC, for Canadian R&D collaborations projects. Ericsson also supports Canadian startups and scale-ups with Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN) through the Living Labs program, providing funding and facilities for innovators to ideate, test, and bring breakthrough technologies to market.
In November of 2024, Ericsson and the Government of Canada signed a five-year funding agreement as part of ISEDs Strategic Innovation Fund that will see Ericsson invest more $630M into its Canadian R&D operations. This funding will further enhance research capabilities, create and upskill jobs, and strengthen Ericsson Canada’s R&D facilities as global leaders in 5G Advanced, 6G, AI, Cloud RAN, quantum, and network API technologies.
Ericsson’s Ottawa R&D site, the largest in North America, is a strategic site with end-to-end development capabilities. It’s also one of the few Verification Centres for Ericsson. Our teams work in all phases of the product development cycle, from research, architecture, systematization, hardware/ software design, integration, test, field test and customer support. Since 2020, our Ottawa Open Lab has been a key site on the recently created Cloud RAN product development unit responsible for Ericsson Cloud RAN products worldwide. Ericsson also established its Global AI Accelerator division in 2019 in Montreal. This 5G innovation hub focuses on R&D in AI and automation to leverage innovative technologies and create data-driven, intelligent and robust systems for automation, evolution and growth.
Our commitments to the Canadian ecosystem
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