AI is driving transformative change across industries and enterprises, significantly enhancing productivity and convenience. As applications expand beyond chatbots to other applications, such as the real-time control of robots, drones and vehicles, different use cases will all require reliable, secure and ultra-fast connectivity. To meet the demands of this emerging AI-driven traffic, telecommunications networks must evolve.
Telecommunications operators will not only need to build infrastructure that supports traditional communications operations; they will also have to enable AI training and inferencing by integrating AI capabilities into their existing network infrastructure.
AI-RAN, a technology that integrates AI into radio access networks (RAN) for wireless communications, offers a groundbreaking approach to providing AI inferencing within network infrastructure. “AITRAS,” an AI-RAN solution from SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO: 9434), represents a GPU-based infrastructure that simultaneously handles both RAN and AI workloads. It also shifts mobile network infrastructure from being a cost center to a revenue generating asset.
On November 13, 2024, SoftBank unveiled AITRAS at a media briefing held at Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus ("SFC"), a research-oriented wing of Keio University located roughly 50 kilometers southwest of Tokyo. Get the full details in this blog post below.
(Posted on December 18, 2024)
by SoftBank News Editors
