I don’t like narratives in this way about #5Gslice or legacy networks/services with huge investments there without gains at all 🤣🤣🤣 Nokia's shift from #5GSlicing to #AI-Native is a silent admission of 5G's commercial fatigue. For years, we were told Slicing was the 'Holy Grail' of #5Gmonetization, yet it failed to deliver as I said 7,8 years ago at the first deployment of 5G NSA network. Now, the narrative has conveniently pivoted: 'Slices don't fit AI.' This isn't just a technical evolution; it’s a strategic pivot to justify a new cycle of CAPEX. By killing the slice to save the network with 'AI-Native' hardware, vendors are simply asking operators to pay for a new, more expensive 'Compute Tax' to solve a problem that the previous generation's over-engineered solutions couldn't fix." actually too bad, good and innovative evolution is not complete throwing legacy one into rubbish bin. This aligns perfectly with my analysis of the AI-Native RAN alliance white paper days ago: 1. It confirms the "broken 5G promise": Network slicing, once touted as a killer feature for 5G, is now being admitted by even equipment manufacturers as unsuitable for future AI traffic. 2. The trade-off between computing power and energy efficiency: Nokia's touted AI-native network inevitably relies on the "high-power computing power" you mentioned. To make the network "dynamically adaptable," operators must pay a heavy "computing power tax." 3. The complexity trap: If operators can't even handle relatively simple logic like network slicing, then the complexity of AI-native networks, involving Model Lifecycle Management, could plunge them into an even deeper operational black hole. #MWC2026 #AInativeRAN #AI-Native RAN #6G #Nokia Dean Bubley Zahid Ghadialy
Did #AI just kill the network slice. Nokia pre MWC majored in ai ran but tucked in the presentation was an interesting snippet. Todays Network slices targeting at particular forms of traffic don’t fit the dynamic bursty and highly variable traffic of AI. Nokia says the answer is an ai native network.
