AI-RAN in Action

Two AI trends are driving the need for an AI-enabled infrastructure at the 5G/6G radio access network (RAN) edge. Inferencing for generative AI and AI agents requires AI compute infrastructure to be distributed from edge to central clouds. At the same time, it's clear that the RAN is evolving to an AI-native infrastructure. The AI-RAN brings these trends to fruition, providing an accelerated computing infrastructure that accelerates both radio signal processing and AI workloads. In the past six months, both Softbank in Japan and T-Mobile in the United States have taken leading roles toward transforming their networks to AI-RAN. Our panel will explore the motivations and practicalities of delivering a commercial grade AI-RAN network to transform commercial return on investment and increase spectral efficiency, network capacity, and network utilization.