Ericsson expands collaboration with Future Technologies
Ericsson and Future Technologies expanded their collaboration to scale enterprise wireless infrastructure and private 5G across North America, a change the companies said intended to accelerate deployments in critical North American industries.
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) moves into real-world industrial operations, the companies said enterprise connectivity is becoming critical infrastructure; they said many traditional enterprise connectivity architectures were not built to deliver the scale, reliability, and real-time performance required for modern AI-enabled operations, creating a gap between AI compute capacity and the networks designed to support it.
To address those requirements, the firms pointed to cellular technologies, including private 5G and enterprise wireless Wide Area Network (WAN) (WWAN), as methods to provide secure, deterministic connectivity for real-time data movement among connected devices, edge computing platforms, and centralized cloud systems, and they said industrial sites were experiencing rapid growth in connected devices such as sensors, cameras, autonomous systems, vehicles, and mobile workers.
Under the expanded collaboration, Ericsson provided enterprise wireless and private cellular technologies while Future Technologies provided systems integration expertise spanning strategy, architecture, deployment, and lifecycle services; the companies said their work built on more than 13 years of joint engagement and over $150 million in cumulative joint engagement value and included prior deployments supporting manufacturing environments, industrial facilities, and large-scale sports and entertainment venues, and Future Technologies operated an Atlanta-based Living Lab and a Lab-on-Wheels demonstration platform.
“Artificial intelligence is moving into the physical world, and that fundamentally changes the role connectivity plays inside enterprises,” said Åsa Tamsons, Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area Enterprise Wireless Solutions at Ericsson. “Enterprise wireless is becoming foundational infrastructure for AI-driven operations. Our collaboration with Future Technologies strengthens Ericsson’s ability to help organizations deploy the networks required to power the next generation of industrial innovation.”
“Connectivity transformation is not simply about upgrading networks, it is about enabling AI modernization across industrial environments,” said Peter Cappiello, Chief Executive Officer of Future Technologies. “Ericsson has been a foundational technology partner for more than 13 years. Together we are scaling deterministic enterprise wireless as a utility layer supporting modern infrastructure across North America.” Scalable wireless infrastructure is emerging as a strategic foundation for modern industrial environments.