As the U.S. turns 250, Ericsson is building the future of 6G, AI and drone detection
· As the US turns 250, Ericsson serves customers across all 50 states, backed by 6,200 employees across more than 30 US locations
· Ericsson’s US operations include domestic manufacturing, enterprise and API solutions, and R&D, including its D15 Innovation Hub in Silicon Valley.
· At its Americas' HQ in Plano, Texas, Ericsson completed the world's first pre-standard 6G session and a live drone-detection trial using existing network infrastructure
CAPTION: Per Narvinger, Head of Networks, Ericsson; Jacob Helberg, U.S. Under Secretary for Economic Affairs; Börje Ekholm, President and CEO, Ericsson, pictured at a recent meeting.
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, Ericsson congratulates the nation on its historic milestone and salutes its spirit of innovation and ingenuity.
Looking ahead, the next era of American leadership increasingly depends on the transition to fully automated, AI-native networks capable of delivering new services to consumers, enterprises, and industries at speed.
The US is Ericsson's largest market and the company has been present in the country for more than 120 years. Today, Ericsson serves customers across all 50 states and employs more than 6,200 people across more than 30 locations.
"The United States is one of our core markets and our most important innovation hub,” said Börje Ekholm, President and Chief Executive Officer. “The world's first pre-standard 6G session happened here, and as AI reshapes what networks must do, this is where we are building the future. America's next era of industrial leadership runs on connectivity, and we intend to help power it."
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.