Cloudera Joins AI-RAN Alliance To Power Intelligent, AI-Driven Telecom Networks

KUALA LUMPUR, June 6 (Bernama) -- Cloudera, a hybrid platform for data, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), has joined the AI-RAN Alliance, a global consortium focused on AI into telecommunications infrastructure.

In a statement, Cloudera said it joined major industry players including Dell, NVIDIA, SoftBank, T-Mobile, KT and LG U+, with the collective aim of transforming telecom networks into intelligent platforms powered by real-time data and AI.

Cloudera Chief Strategy Officer, Abhas Ricky said Cloudera is proud to bring its data and AI expertise to the AI-RAN Alliance.

“We look forward to accelerating innovation alongside alliance members and helping define the data standards and architectures for AI-native networks,” he said.

Meanwhile, AI-RAN Alliance Chair and SoftBank’s Research Institute of Advanced Technology Principal Fellow, Dr Alex Jinsung Choi described Cloudera as an incredible addition that will play a vital role in advancing AI-native telecom infrastructure.

The AI-RAN Alliance seeks to standardise the integration of AI across existing and future networks, support shared infrastructure for AI optimisation, and fast-track the deployment of edge AI applications, while also aiming to develop reference architectures to help operators implement AI solutions profitably and at scale.

With the rising complexity of deploying AI across distributed edge environments, telecommunication providers must adopt strategic, enterprise-wide efforts to operationalise AI within radio access networks (RAN).

As a new member, Cloudera will contribute to the ‘Data for AI-RAN’ working group, focusing on data orchestration, large language model (LLM)-driven automation, and machine learning operations (MLOps) for hybrid AI workloads. The initiative is expected to align data and AI pipelines with telecom operational needs, enabling faster deployment of AI-native use cases.

The company will also support the alliance’s three core objectives—AI-for-RAN, AI-and-RAN, and AI-on-RAN—while working with partners to pilot AI applications such as real-time anomaly detection and service-level agreement (SLA)-driven network availability.

-- BERNAMA