The nexus of AI, the Internet of Things (IoT), and accelerated computing at the edge is turbocharging network performance and efficiency. The world’s leading telcos are turning to NVIDIA technologies to create AI-enabled solutions, build software-defined infrastructure for 5G, and bring connected intelligence to smart devices at the edge.
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A new AI-on-5G solution enables telcos to deliver immersive graphics, metaverse applications, and computer vision from one GPU-accelerated system.
Four hundred respondents from the world’s leading telecommunications and communication service providers suggest AI is important to revolutionize the industry, but change appears slow-going.
Enterprises across industries are adding business value by adopting edge AI technologies, including computer vision, extended reality, and robotics. Telcos, with connectivity and edge infrastructures, are uniquely positioned to provide these services.
What is clear is that 5G is set to shift operators’ service models away from monthly voice, data, and messaging bundles and towards higher-value services that are tuned for specific customer requirements—and that it will increasingly make use of edge computing.
-"Developing an Edge in 5G Services"
Network operations are becoming increasingly complex, and vast amounts of valuable data are being generated. By leveraging AI to extract timely, actionable insights from this data, telcos can optimize network operations, improve customer experiences, and unlock new revenue streams.
T-Mobile deployed a conversational AI-based chatbot, a self-service center, agent-assist functionality, and transcription services in their customer experience centers. Conversations between customers and agents are now transcribed to text—live—to better assist customer experience center agents. According to T-Mobile, in the first 18 months, they realized a significant return on their investment.
NVIDIA networking telco solutions provide intelligent offloads and accelerators to maintain adherence to stringent Radio Access Network (RAN) timing specifications, offer real-time edge AI processing, and provide an accelerated and efficient infrastructure for 5G and network services applications.
NVIDIA Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing (ASAP2) offloads the virtual switch data plane to the SmartNIC or DPU, freeing precious CPU resources. Combining the performance and efficiency of server/storage networking hardware with the flexibility of virtual switching software provides software-defined networks with the highest total infrastructure efficiency, deployment flexibility, and operational simplicity.
Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) is a programming framework to provide faster packet processing and deliver increased performance and efficiency for applications requiring high-speed networking access. NVIDIA provides an input/output (I/O) packet performance breakthrough that eliminates the performance barrier associated with deploying network function virtualization (NFV) solutions in both service provider networks and enterprise cloud deployments.
NVIDIA time-triggered transmission technology for telco, referred to as 5T-for-5G technology, provides time synchronization to achieve timing accuracy for network traffic and is a real-time and high-performance solution for building an efficient, time-synchronized Cloud RAN infrastructure.
NVIDIA Aerial™ is pushing the limits of wireless innovation for 5G RAN. Aerial delivers a high-performance, software-defined, programmable, GPU-accelerated, and ORAN-compliant 5G virtual RAN (vRAN). Aerial is a key building block for telco 5G networks, AI-on-5G for private 5G, and RAN-in-the-cloud solutions. NVIDIA is working with partners on ongoing research, development, and ecosystem engagement for 6G.
While the number of RAN sites is projected to nearly double to over 17 million by 2027(1), the reality is that many have an average utilization below 25 percent(2). This means that the strategic importance of the RAN presents a huge opportunity for new ideas on how to plan, deploy, manage, and monetize the RAN. Both AI and accelerated computing have a huge role to play.
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