Fujitsu’s role in SoftBank and Nvidia’s tantalizing AI-RAN offering

AI wunderkind Nvidia and SoftBank are promising the telco community sumptuous rewards from the deployment of AI-RAN tech. The pair have led a trial, alongside Fujitsu and Red Hat, which they say promises returns of 219% for every AI-RAN server installed. The veracity of this claim is yet to be seen. Wireless Watch spoke to Rob Hughes, the Head of Wireless Marketing at Fujitsu, for details of Fujitsu’s work to maximize RAN performance using AI. Fujitsu has been working with Nvidia for around four years developing vRAN software using Nvidia GPUs – the chip designer’s secret sauce for running AI applications. The research has been focused on how to monetize capacity, given the high costs involved in AI hardware. In…