Ericsson

Ericsson is a provider of technology and services for telecommunications and network operators. This includes 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G mobile technologies, and support for large subscriber base networks. Further, the company's portfolio includes mobile and fixed network infrastructure, telecommunication services, software, broadband, and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises, and the media industry. The company, headquartered in Stockholm, operates in over 180 countries, employs over 100,000 people, and has over 57,000 granted patents.

The company, founded in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson, is jointly controlled by the Wallenberg family through the family's holding company Investor AB and the investment company Industrivärden. The Wallenberg family and the Handelsbanken acquired control of Ericsson after the fall of the Krueger empire in the 1930s. Since that time, Ericsson has become a major player and contributor in the telecommunication industry, and is a leader in 5G development and technology. Similarly, the company is the inventor of Bluetooth technology.

As part of Ericsson's 5G offerings, the company offers 5G Radio Access Network (RAN), which uses 5G radio FDD frequencies to provide wireless connectivity to devices. Use cases for the technology include cloud gaming, augmented and virtual reality, autonomous driving, and fixed wireless access. In order to deliver solutions to these use cases, the RAN consists of antennas, radios, baseband (RAN compute), and RAN software to increase speeds and mobility of networks and user devices.

Ericsson offers mobile transport solutions in order to connect 5G services and to meet capacity needs in urban, suburban, and rural areas. And to help meet those needs, service providers require 5G transport solutions to meet those needs and connect various 54G services while offering increased Radio Access Network (RAN) performance.

With the development of 5G comes the promise of new use cases that were not previously possible based on network capabilities. This includes industrial automation, critical IoT, and advanced consumer services. Key enablers for these use cases will be developing cloud-native core networks for 5G and automated services for the range of deployment scenarios.

In order to develop a high-performance communications foundation that is reliable and secure, private networks have been a preferred way to power digital transformation for connecting devices, industrial sites, and augmenting workers. Ericsson Private 5G is a solutions for developing 5G, private networks, for industrial use cases and the digitalization of infrastructures and business process operations. The private, dedicated network offers organizations secure 4G LTE and 5G connectivity for the optimization and simplification of business operations through data creation, collection, and analysis.

Ericsson offers an IoT platform to help client companies deploy, manage, and scale IoT businesses, and increase a company's speed to market. The IoT platform makes use of Ericsson's dedicated core network, coupled with global cellular coverage to help future-proof a business and offer a company complete visibility and control access across the entire lifespan of connected assets.

Ericsson offers managed services for network and IT operations and optimization, and offering communication services providers and enterprises a possibility to run next-generation connectivity and services for their customers. The Ericsson Operations Engine offers an artificially intelligent and and data-driven solution for intelligent and predictive mobile networks.

Built on Ericsson's 3GPP, 4G, and 5G technologies, the company offers network services for critical communications and applications for resilient and high performing critical mobile broadband communication services, such as those used by public safety agencies and critical infrastructure industries. Furthermore, these technologies are aimed to complement or evolve existing national or regional Land Mobile Radio (LMR) networks, providing comprehensive voice, data, and video services.

Ericsson offers intelligent network services to help integrate data insights with expert knowledge to offer service providers what they need from site design and engineering to continuous preemptive support and network optimization. These service offerings include intelligent deployment services and network support services for always-on networks.

Service orchestration works to help prepare businesses for 5G through a programmable network open for the consumer and enterprise application. A key capability is secure and automated end-to-end management across multi-clouds and network domains. This includes service automation to remove manual tasks for designing, ordering, fulfilling, and assuring services to increase efficiency and to provide zero-touch operations. This is as enterprise service orchestration becomes increasingly important in order to connect multiple application ecosystems and orchestrate workloads across multi-cloud and multi-vendor environments.