Aira Technologies and VMware by Broadcom Demonstrate Integrated ML-based Dynamic Radio Network Management to Drive Dramatic Energy Efficiency in Multi-Layer 5G Networks
Summary
The Aira rApp receives the required KPIs through the R1 interface from the VMware cRIC DME, and then stores the data in an Amazon S3 storage bucket and DynamoDB on AWS. What we have been able to achieve here showcases three very important things - the power of the Open RAN movement to accelerate innovation; the extraordinary potential for ML in cutting-edge wireless applications in 4G and 5G cellular networks; and the ability to inter-operate in a multi-vendor end-to-end test environment," said Anand Chandrasekher, co-founder and CEO of Aira Technologies. "We are very excited to demonstrate inter-working with the VMware non-real time RIC at the i14y Lab PlugFest in Berlin, and in the process, play a part in making future mobile networks greener." We are proud of our collaboration with Aira to leverage the RIC to demonstrate energy optimization enabled by its ML app," said Lakshmi Mandyam, vice president, Product Management and Partner Ecosystems, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom. The test set up was hosted at the i14y Lab in Berlin, Germany – supported by Deutsche Telekom and EANTC and i14y consortium partners, as part of the O-RAN ALLIANCE Global PlugFest Fall 2023.