As we’ve tracked Cohere Technologies’ journey on TMN, we have documented how the company is endeavouring to bring innovation into the RAN, with the advent of its congestion-busting Universal Spectrum Multiplier technology, which leverages its Delay-Doppler channel detection method to enable MU-MIMO in FDD as well as TDD spectrum.
We also announced the launch of its Pulsone vision – which is Cohere’s commercialisation of its technology for Integrated Sensing And Communications.
At MWC 2026, Cohere Technologies CEO Ray Dolan told TMN that the company’s USM is now operating in a real world setting and is ready for commercialisation. He also spoke about the launch of the US-government funded OCUDU open source programme, and what it means for the industry and Cohere.
And he confirmed why the company will continue to leverage the Zak-OTFS waveform to support 6G use cases such as Integrated Sensing And Communications (ISAC) and NTN.
In this video:
- How the company is driving ahead on commercialising its USM technology: Dolan says the technology is now operating live in a pilot in Bell Canada’s network, joint scheduling with a third party vendor, in a real world situation. “We’re standing up, we’re reliable and stable and we’re starting to see some good results.“
- The potential for the open source OCUDU programme: “OCUDU is a huge opportunity for companies that want to drive innovation in an open architecture… we’re going to try to drive this development at hyper-speed.
- What ISAC and situational awareness means. Why Cohere’s Zak OTFS waveform is an ideal technology for ISAC, with the Cohere Pulsone: As the industry seems to settle initially on OFDM for 6G, Cohere continues to push Zak-OTFS for its Pulsone – “We’re going to commercialise it and then we’re going to compare it… It is going to reach a point where something else is required to really scale in ISCAC, and we believe that’s our Pulsone”
- Explaining the idea of OTFS as a “mother” waveform: “It can be made to render 4G and 5G, and no matter what comes out of 6G, OTFS can render it. It will also have a superset of capabilities that are unique to the way we parameterise things, and that’s what we plan to compete on – may the best waveform win.”
- The opportunity to develop an ideal 6G waveform for NTN services: “We’re working with a number of satellite players, we’ll inevitably play a role in where space communications are going.”
