On September 12, 2025, ASIAINFO TECH collaborated with Intel, Tsinghua University's Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Institute for Advanced Study in Artificial Intelligence, and IEEE to officially release the bilingual "AI-RAN Commercial Outlook White Paper for Vertical Industries" (hereinafter referred to as "the White Paper"). The white paper has been included in the academic website arXiv.

As the world's first systematic report examining the commercial viability of Private AI-RAN, this white paper not only comprehensively elaborates on the strategic value of Private AI-RAN as the optimal implementation path for enterprise network modernization, but also focuses on typical scenarios in vertical industries. For the first time, it scientifically validates commercial feasibility through quantitative modeling and cost-benefit analysis, providing crucial reference for vertical industry development.

Currently, artificial intelligence technology is accelerating its implementation in enterprise business scenarios. Enterprise network requirements have far exceeded traditional standards of "low latency, high bandwidth, and massive connectivity," shifting toward the rigid demand for "endogenous data, computing power, and intelligent collaboration." Traditional RAN architecture struggles to support this demand transformation. The emergence of AI-RAN (Artificial Intelligence for Radio Access Network) represents not merely a simple technology upgrade, but rather the integration of AI capabilities throughout the entire wireless access network process, achieving the convergence of "communication + sensing + computing + intelligence," becoming an important direction for global network infrastructure restructuring.

**Three Key Highlights of the White Paper**

**Clear Strategic Positioning**: AI-RAN integrates communication, sensing, computing power, and intelligence, representing the core evolutionary direction of 6G, highly aligned with "new infrastructure" and "green low-carbon" trends.

**Quantitative Validation of Commercial Viability**: For the first time employing scenario-driven quantitative modeling methods, conducting comprehensive calculations across multiple dimensions including CapEx (Capital Expenditure), OpEx (Operational Expenditure), and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). In typical scenarios, Private AI-RAN deployment demonstrates significant TCO advantages, substantially reducing investment and operational costs compared to Legacy 3GPP RAN solutions.

**Focus on Vertical Industry Scenarios**: Concentrating on five typical scenarios - smart parks, smart mining, smart nuclear power, smart photovoltaics, and smart factories, combined with real project cases, authoritative data, and expert calibration, showcasing unique value and commercial viability after deep integration of communication, sensing, computing, and intelligence.

**Strategic Significance: Core Foundation for Enterprise Digital and Intelligent Transformation**

It's worth noting that as early as January 10, 2025, ASIAINFO TECH officially joined the AI-RAN Alliance, contributing to the alliance's efforts to create more intelligent, efficient, and flexible network infrastructure. This white paper further indicates that Private AI-RAN is not only a solution for cost reduction and efficiency improvement, but also a strategic foundation for enterprises to build differentiated competitive advantages in digital and intelligent transformation. It drives network evolution from "connectivity infrastructure" to "intelligent foundation," helping enterprises achieve breakthroughs in automation, intelligent upgrades, and exploration of new business models, providing support for advancing toward the AI-driven 6G era. The white paper represents not only ASIAINFO TECH's deep insights into industry trends, but also its important initiative in leading future digital and intelligent infrastructure evolution.

ASIAINFO TECH's industry-first "integrated communication-sensing-computing-intelligence software-hardware solution" focuses on deep integration of communication connectivity, target sensing, basic computing, and endogenous AI, aiming to promote 5G-A/6G network development and meet customer business requirements. This solution features innovative characteristics including lossless network communication, base station computing virtualization, lightweight edge-specific large models, and unified scheduling of communication and computing resources, providing customers with comprehensive capabilities integrating connectivity, sensing, computing, and artificial intelligence.

In the future, ASIAINFO TECH will leverage its exploration and practice in communications and artificial intelligence fields, collaborating with AI-RAN ecosystem partners to continuously research and develop next-generation network products for 5G-A/6G, creating more intelligent, efficient, and adaptable network infrastructure.

**About ASIAINFO TECH**

AsiaInfo Technologies Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 01675.HK) was established in 1993 and successfully listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on December 19, 2018. It is a leading provider of software and hardware products, solutions, and services, as well as a leading provider of comprehensive digital and intelligent capabilities. Relying on core digital and intelligent capabilities including consulting and planning, product R&D, implementation and delivery, system integration, intelligent decision-making, data operations, and customer service, ASIAINFO TECH creates customer service closed loops, providing end-to-end comprehensive digital and intelligent transformation services for customers in telecommunications, government affairs, energy, transportation, broadcasting, postal, and other industries.

ASIAINFO TECH adheres to the "One Consolidation, Three Developments" strategy, consolidating its leadership position in the BSS market with high quality while rapidly developing emerging businesses including 5G OSS network intelligence, DSaaS digital operations, vertical industries, and enterprise cloud migration. The company actively embraces advanced technologies such as 5G, cloud computing, big data, AI, and IoT, forming three major product systems: cloud-network, digital intelligence, and IT.

ASIAINFO TECH is committed to empowering hundreds of industries with digital and intelligent technologies including 5G, cloud computing, AI, big data, and IoT, co-creating digital and intelligent value with customers. Looking toward the future, the company will dedicate itself to becoming the most trusted creator of digital and intelligent value, leveraging comprehensive digital and intelligent capabilities to innovate customer value and promote Digital China.