Dubai, UAE – Cloudera, a leading hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, has announced its membership in the AI-RAN Alliance, a global consortium focused on embedding artificial intelligence into telecommunications infrastructure. Cloudera joins a coalition of telecom providers and AI innovators—including NVIDIA, Dell, SoftBank, T-Mobile, KT, and LG U+—to drive the AI-RAN agenda, aiming to transform radio access networks (RAN) into intelligent, revenue-generating platforms powered by real-time data and AI.
As telecom operators strive to optimize network operations via virtualization and next-generation architectures, AI presents unique opportunities for enhanced efficiency and service innovation. Deploying AI across distributed edge environments poses complex challenges, and the AI-RAN Alliance seeks to standardize AI integration, share infrastructure, accelerate edge AI application development, and validate real-world deployments.
Cloudera’s expertise in scalable data management, edge-to-AI orchestration, and open-source-first technologies complements the Alliance’s mission. As a member, Cloudera will:
- Contribute to the ‘Data for AI-RAN’ working group, focusing on data orchestration, LLM-driven network automation, and hybrid MLOps tailored to telecom needs.
- Support the Alliance’s core objectives: AI-for-RAN, AI-and-RAN, and AI-on-RAN.
- Collaborate on piloting AI use cases such as SLA-driven network availability and real-time anomaly detection, developing reference architectures for live deployments.
- Utilize its platform to demonstrate real-time edge decision-making, scalable training data preparation, MLOps, AI inference, and end-to-end governance.
Abhas Ricky, Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera, stated, “AI can unlock substantial value for telecom networks by driving margin growth and service transformation. We are excited to join the AI-RAN Alliance to help define data standards and orchestration models that will enable intelligent, adaptive, AI-native networks of the future.”
Alliance members praised Cloudera’s addition, highlighting its global telecom experience and leadership in data and AI as vital to advancing AI-driven network evolution.
