The RAN is being rebuilt, not upgraded. 6G shifts it from a connectivity layer to an AI-native platform: sensing and communications converge (ISAC), new frequency bands deliver extreme capacity with increased connectivity, security and scalability moving the foundation. Terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks fuse into one, connecting everything, everywhere from ground to space.
As demand grows for intelligent, differentiated wireless solutions, the constraints are hardening. Operators are squeezed on cost per bit and energy per site, while OEMs face fragmented functional splits and spectrum plans that turn every deployment into a variant. Layer on a supply base with shrinking flexibility, and the ability to adapt a platform after silicon tape-out stops being a nice-to-have, it becomes the difference between shipping and starting over.