Press Launch
BubbleRAN and Telenor have efficiently launched an NVIDIA AI-powered answer for the autonomous community operations and optimization on considered one of Shade Line’s vessels, a passenger and cargo ship working between Norway and worldwide locations. The end result has been exceptional, delivering vital positive aspects in efficiency and reliability, better operational agility, and total a greater onboard connectivity expertise for patrons and crew.
Working a cellular community on a vessel at sea presents various distinct challenges. The ship’s metallic construction, interference from different networks, and always shifting climate situations are affecting the entry and backhaul radio hyperlinks making the standard community administration and optimization extremely complicated and difficult. This answer overcomes these challenges by making a symbiosis between AI brokers and algorithms. This method dynamically controls a collection of entry and backhaul radio parameters in real-time, autonomously optimizing each uplink and downlink efficiency to adapt to the variable situations at sea, guaranteeing secure service and powerful consumer expertise all through the voyage.
At present, this answer ensures strong each day operations and an distinctive connectivity expertise for each passengers and crew. Wanting forward, it paves the way in which for even better effectivity via coordinated optimization with neighboring private and non-private networks, promising steady enchancment in each community and consumer efficiency.
Launch of Modern Optimization System
The answer, Opti-Sphere, is a first-of-its-kind agentic community optimization system that helps private and non-private 5G operators to transit from remoted and handbook tuning to coordinated and automatic decision-making. It turns reside community information into actionable insights, and when accepted, can apply secure configuration modifications, pre-validated via a real-time digital twin.
The system addresses a significant operational problem for maritime networks: sustaining secure efficiency and consumer expertise in harsh radio environments. Opti-Sphere meets this problem by constantly optimizing consumer tools uplink energy whereas adhering to operator-defined constraints and security insurance policies.
At MWC Barcelona, Opti-Sphere is demonstrated reside at sea, optimizing Telenor Maritime Networks on prime of an Ericsson non-public 5G deployment. Skilled and validated on information from 33 ships worldwide, the system is presently making use of adaptive energy management throughout two shipboard cells, bettering uplink efficiency by studying from historic information and safely evaluating a small set of candidate configurations via real-time digital-twin validation. The demo additionally encompasses a small-scale reproduction of a personal maritime 5G community, showcasing the identical closed-loop optimization strategy and pointing to autonomous non-public 5G networks of the longer term. Collectively, the demonstrations spotlight how Opti-Sphere delivers operational and enterprise worth past
dashboards, accelerating troubleshooting and lowering upkeep via steady observability and automatic parameter tuning backed by measurable KPI enhancements.
A Mannequin of Ecosystem Co-Creation
Opti-Sphere represents a real mannequin of ecosystem co-creation, designed from the bottom up as a multi-partner and multi-vendor answer. It integrates main elements from throughout the telecommunications panorama: BubbleRAN offers the foundational automation and orchestration layer with its SMO-Sphere platform and Agentic Toolkit (BAT); Telenor’s Analysis & Innovation and Maritime models function co-developers and validation companions; NVIDIA platform with NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit powers the AI frameworks and agentic workflows together with NVIDIA/BubbleRAN telco config blueprint constructed on MX-AI; whereas LITEON 5G small cells and Amarisoft provides software-based 5G community and terminals comprising the crucial infrastructure and real-time digital twin surroundings for testing and validation.
“Opti-Sphere reveals what occurs when AI turns into actually operational: it doesn’t simply observe the community, it causes, validates, and improves it. Efficiently deploying this within the harsh maritime surroundings stands as a robust proof level for ecosystem co-creation in mission-critical non-public 5G.” says Navid Nikaein, CEO, BubbleRAN.
“This reveals what’s doable when innovators come along with a shared ambition. By combining BubbleRAN’s agility, NVIDIA’s accelerated computing, Telenor Maritime’s operational experience, and Telenor R&I’s analysis capabilities, we’ve achieved outcomes none of us might have achieved alone. These sorts of collaborations, constructed on belief, openness and a willingness to problem one another, can contribute to improvements that transfer the trade ahead”, highlights Dagfinn Myhre, SVP Analysis & Innovation at Telenor ASA.
“This collaboration demonstrates how agentic AI strikes past generic tooling and turns into operational in real-world telco environments – bringing reasoning to resolve complicated conflicts, accelerating selections, and translating AI innovation into measurable operational outcomes.” says Chris Penrose, International VP of enterprise growth for telco at NVIDIA.
“With built-in digital-twin capabilities, this answer modifications how networks are optimized and advanced. Digital twins allow prediction and quicker iteration whereas lowering operational danger and value.” factors out Emmanuel Puig, Senior VP of Engineering at Amarisoft.
“By showcasing a compact non-public 5G deployment at MWC, we’re demonstrating how clever closed-loop optimization might be dropped at many industries past maritime.” says Richard Chiang, SLA SBU Basic Supervisor from LITEON.
Dwell demonstrations at MWC Barcelona The complete demonstration will likely be reside at MWC Barcelona March 2–5, 2026 at Telenor stand 2J20 and BubbleRAN stand 5D97.
