What is AI and RAN multi-tenancy and orchestration?
RCRWirelessNews, Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
Three Workload Distribution Models are Emerging for AI-RAN - RAN-only, RAN-heavy or AI-heavy
In November, SoftBank announced that it successfully piloted the world's first combined AI and 5G telecom network using the NVIDIA AI Aerial accelerated computing platform in an outdoor trial conducted in Japan's Kanagawa prefecture. This combined model, which the industry calls AI-RAN, represents a significant step towards achieving network energy efficiency goals and realizing AI revenue streams for telecom operators.
'Telecom networks are designed for peak and when you design something for peak, that actually means that most of the time, it's underutilized. How do you create more utilization? Having an orthogonal workload in the daytime . using it for RAN when it's highly utilized and, in the nighttime, you might actually use it for AI workloads,' said Nvidia's General Manager of AI, 5G and telecoms Soma Velayutham.