Ericsson’s AI-powered services have a new addition as the company launches Agentic rApp as a service on Amazon Web Services to help communications service providers (CSPs) achieve high levels of network autonomy. rApp aaS is available through AWS Marketplace.
It uses agentic AI to manage optimisation workflows, with the company describing the system capable of reasoning on network conditions and determining appropriate optimisations. It incorporates a natural language interface, so teams can issue instructions in plain language which the system translates into executable commands for the management environment.
rApp aaS connects to the Non-Real-Time RAN Intelligent Controller through the R1 interface as defined by the O-RAN Alliance. The R1 interface is a standardised interface intended to let third-party applications interact with an operator’s network. Ericcson’s rApp as-a-service can therefore operate in any network that’s adopted open RAN principles, and standard-compliant multi-vendor ecosystems.
Field testing of rApp aaS is under way by several operators, including Vivo in Brazil. Elmo Matos, director of mobile network core and deployment at Vivo, said that its collaboration with Ericsson “allows us to test different applications of artificial intelligence […]. We will explore the rApp aaS model and expand AI-driven functionalities, focusing on improving network capacity and automation on a national scale.”
According to Ericsson, its existing AI solutions for network optimisation process more than 100 million AI inferences each day across approximately 11 million cells serving over two billion subscribers, with its figures relating to current deployments of any Ericsson AI system, not specifically rApp aaS.
Ericsson’s release of rApp aaS is part of its bid to offer Level 4 network autonomy, where Level 4 is the situation in which networks can execute closed-loop optimisation with limited human intervention under specific conditions. Jean-Christophe Laneri, head of cognitive network solutions at Ericsson said, “our Agentic rApp as a Service represents a significant milestone in our vision for autonomous networks.”
The launch of Ericcson’s AI-powered network optimisation platform will be presented at Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona. Ericsson states that the event will demonstrate the service on embedded agentic AI technology operating on AWS infrastructure. Further technical detail and independent performance data are likely to be required to assess the practical impact of the service in commercial networks.
James Crawshaw, practice leader, Omdia, said: “While many in the market now claim to provide rApps, only a small number have demonstrated successful, production-level deployments with ORAN-compliant interfaces. And no other vendor offers a comparable rApp-as-a-Service solution. These two aspects create a real distinction, setting this new offering apart.”
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