Deutsche Telekom, Nokia and NVIDIA test AI-RAN gains

Deutsche Telekom has announced lab validation results showing AI-based uplink channel estimation can improve radio throughput, and said it will next test the technology in a field trial.

• Lab measurements with Nokia commercial 5G RAN software and NVIDIA Aerial RAN Computer showed 10–15% throughput improvements in Deutsche Telekom’s lab in Bonn and Nokia’s lab in Oulu.
• The companies plan to move to a field trial on commercial systems; Deutsche Telekom also said it is working with NVIDIA, Agile Robots, Nokia and Supermicro on distributed AI infrastructure and is using an NVIDIA Aerial RAN Computer MGX 4U at the network edge.