Finland, Oct. 19 -- Nokia announced an agreement with SoftBank Corp. to conduct a commercial AI-RAN field trial in Japan in 2027. The planned deployment will use Nokia's anyRAN software on SoftBank's AITRAS, its core platform for AI-RAN, with NVIDIA Aerial RAN Computer (ARC), in conjunction with the AITRAS Orchestrator. The companies plan to validate AI-RAN technology in a commercial network environment under commercial traffic conditions.The upcoming field trial will assess key AI-RAN capabilities in a live commercial network environment and represents an important step in SoftBank's efforts to commercialize AI-RAN. It will also advance Nokia's AI-RAN commercialization roadmap by moving the technology from laboratory development toward rea...