Samsung Achieves Another Industry-First Virtualized RAN Milestone, Accelerating AI-Native, 6G-Ready Networks

January 14, 2026

Samsung Electronics today announced that the company has successfully completed the industry’s first commercial call utilizing Samsung’s virtualized RAN (vRAN) solution with the Intel1 Xeon 6700P-B processor series, with up to 72 cores, on a Tier 1 U.S. operator’s live network. This builds upon the company’s previous achievement in 2024, when it completed the industry-first end-to-end call in a lab environment with Intel Xeon 6 SoC.

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