How LLM-D Brings Critical Resource Optimization With Softbank's AI-RAN Orchestrator
Red Hat, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
As the technical reality of AI-RAN comes into focus, many telecommunication service providers are realizing that it's no longer just about whether they can run AI and radio access network (RAN) on the same hardware - it's about how they manage AI at scale.
In Red Hat's latest collaboration with SoftBank Corp., we have integrated llm-d into SoftBank's AI-RAN orchestrator, AITRAS. Founded by Red Hat alongside other industry leaders, llm-d is an open source framework designed to dynamically and intelligently distribute the inferencing of large language models (LLMs) within a RAN more efficiently and with increased performance.