Technology standards

The timely availability of globally or regionally harmonized radio spectrum is a key requirement for the successful deployment of radio systems, including terrestrial mobile networks. Decisions are made by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), regional regulatory bodies, or local bodies on a per country basis – all of whom place technical requirements on equipment to avoid inter-system interference.

Additional technical regulations, including physical restrictions on the deployment of equipment, electromagnetic field matters (EMF), and cyber and physical security aspects must also be in place to ensure the successful rollout and use of mobile networks.

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Principles of spectrum licensing

Security standardization is a multilateral effort comprising several worldwide standards organizations and a diverse set of stakeholders from industry, government and academia. In the standardization process, industry stakeholders agree on a common structure to ensure interoperability with maintained security. This structure is then used to develop, test and verify key security system properties such as interface definitions, security protocols, key lengths and cryptographic algorithms.

While standardization provides a secure base for overall network security, it is not the final destination. At Ericsson, we incorporate the many various standards frameworks within our wider, comprehensive approach to network security. Beyond standards, our broad security portfolio comprises features, functions and products according to our Security Reliability Model (SRM). This enables us to deliver the necessary privacy, security assurance, resilience, communication security and identity management through each stage of network implementation, deployment, configuration and operation.

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Network security standards

Open-source ecosystem collaboration, today driven by the Linux Foundation and other initiatives, plays a key role in aligning, defining and developing technical breakthroughs across new cloud-native architectural paradigms including software-defined networking, Kubernetes for container orchestration and improved network exposure through open network APIs.

The CAMARA and GSMA Open Gateway initiatives are two examples where open, global and cross-sectoral collaboration is driving the alignment on API requirements and definitions. As a key contributor across this space, Ericsson is committed to driving and facilitating the future evolution of network APIs.

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Championing the open-source networking ecosystem

Together with partners across ICT domains, we bring our expertise of mobile networks to ensure that IETF standards are aligned, synchronized and optimized to deliver on the needs of modern networks. This includes ensuring that Internet-, transport- and security protocols are robust enough to support high-performance low-latency and time-critical use cases.

Media codecs are critically important to enable some of the most exciting technologies, such as high-quality streaming and video conferencing, VR/AR applications, remote control and fully immersive 360° video and games.

For more than twenty years, Ericsson has been committed to driving video standardization, supported by substantial R&D investments in media codec technologies. Any device or service compatible with the media codec standards High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), Versatile Video Coding (VVC), Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) and Low Complexity Communication Codec Plus (LC3plus) uses technology developed by Ericsson. This includes most modern devices such as gaming consoles, laptops, tablets, streaming devices, cameras and smart watches.

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Ericsson consumer electronics licensing program

Versatile Video Coding – video for a 5G world

VVC: the key to next-generation mobile services

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a pervasive technology that plays a key role in enabling automation, managing complexity and scalability, and leveraging on data from distributed systems in real time.

Today, efforts to standardize and regulate the development, security, privacy, interoperability and trustworthiness of AI technologies are ongoing across multiple fora worldwide. This includes both regional regulatory frameworks, such as the EU’s AI Act and NIST’s Risk Management Framework, as well as ongoing standardization efforts across ETSI, IEEE, ITU, ISO, O-RAN and 3GPP.

Ericsson has adopted the EU Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI and is working to implement AI design rules to make sure that its AI is fully lawful, ethical and robust. We are also highly active across the respective standardization fora, including formal activities within 3GPP to standardize AI/ML support in 5G RAN.

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AI in next-generation systems

AI standard for 5G RAN explained