Sweden, Feb. 26 -- SoftBank Corp. (President & CEO: Junichi Miyakawa, "SoftBank") announced that, as part of its ongoing joint research and development efforts with Ericsson, the two companies have newly defined and implemented a way for the orchestrator of SoftBank's AI-RAN product under development, AITRAS ("AITRAS Orchestrator"), to integrate and coordinate with Ericsson Intelligent Automation Platform ("EIAP"), an O-RAN-compliant Service Management and Orchestration ("SMO1") platform responsible for RAN management and control, toward the integrated management and operation of AI (artificial intelligence) processing and RAN (Radio Access Network) control, including through rApps (non-real time RAN automation applications).The setup enabl...