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Aira Technologies demonstrates RANGPT™, the world's first LLM-based utility for RAN query and control

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Friday, November 3, 2023
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SARATOGA, Calif., Nov. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Aira Technologies, a pioneer in the application of Machine Learning (ML) to radically improve wireless telecommunications, today announced that it has developed a new capability, RANGPT, that allows Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to query and control the RAN using conversational language. Aira is demonstrating RANGPT at the first Aira Technology Day, co-hosted with its partners in Redwood City, CA. The partners are leading AI and telecommunications practitioners who have gathered for a full day of panel discussions on how AI could revolutionize wireless networks.

Key Points: 
  • Aira is demonstrating RANGPT at the first Aira Technology Day, co-hosted with its partners in Redwood City, CA.
  • Aira addressed these challenges by creating RANGPT to provide a natural language interface to network data," said Ravikiran Gopalan , co-founder and CTO of Aira Technologies.
  • In response to a query, the Aira RANGPT modules work together to analyze network data resident in a data lake.
  • The utility also can be used for control of the RAN, allowing for manipulation of the actual underlying hardware to troubleshoot or isolate faults.

Aira Technologies Announces Industry Cross-Partner Forum on Impact of AI and Generative AI in Wireless

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023
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SARATOGA, Calif., Oct. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Aira Technologies, a pioneer in the application of Machine Learning (ML) to radically improve wireless telecommunications, announced their forthcoming technology forum: The Role and Impact of AI and Generative AI in Wireless. Scheduled for Friday, November 3rd, this event will take place at McKinsey & Company's Redwood City Offices.

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  • In-depth discussions with experts will uncover practical insights into AI's potential for innovation, performance, and efficiency
    SARATOGA, Calif., Oct. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Aira Technologies, a pioneer in the application of Machine Learning (ML) to radically improve wireless telecommunications, announced their forthcoming technology forum: The Role and Impact of AI and Generative AI in Wireless.
  • Scheduled for Friday, November 3rd, this event will take place at McKinsey & Company's Redwood City Offices.
  • Hosted in partnership with Amazon Web Services, Juniper Networks, VMware, Intel, Dell, CapGemini, and TechMahindra, the forum is tailored to chief technology officers and executives from leading wireless companies, and will feature strategic panel discussions with:

D2L Continues to be an Industry Leader in Accessible Teaching and Learning

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Monday, October 30, 2023
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Content: D2L embeds accessible content authoring and auditing tools throughout its platform to help users create and maintain highly accessible content.

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  • Content: D2L embeds accessible content authoring and auditing tools throughout its platform to help users create and maintain highly accessible content.
  • For instance, since January 2022, all videos uploaded onto D2L Brightspace can have AI-generated, editable closed captions in multiple languages – making learning more accessible.
  • Pedagogy: D2L provides support for Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to help enhance pedagogical processes to reach diverse learners.
  • D2L continued its accessibility support to blind and low vision learners by renewing its partnership with Aira until June 2024.

Vargas Launches AIRA - A NEW clean energy-tech company to serve 5 million homes

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Friday, June 16, 2023
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Aira makes it easy for consumers to decarbonise their homes with a complete home energy system with a highly efficient and intelligent heat pump at the heart.

Key Points: 
  • Aira makes it easy for consumers to decarbonise their homes with a complete home energy system with a highly efficient and intelligent heat pump at the heart.
  • Within ten years, Aira will serve 5 million European homes with much needed greener and cheaper residential heating.
  • Martin Lewerth, CEO of Aira says: "With clean energy-tech for every home, Aira is transforming residential heating and accelerating Europe's energy transition and decarbonisation.
  • To meet a booming demand for heat pumps, Aira will swiftly establish and grow its business over the coming years.

Aira Technologies demonstrates greater than 2X throughput improvement via their high fidelity channel estimation and prediction xApp

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Monday, February 27, 2023
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BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Aira Technologies, a pioneer in the application of Machine Learning (ML) to radically improve wireless telecommunications, today announced that its near-real time AI-based MIMO Channel Estimation and Prediction xApp can achieve >2X throughput improvement, compared to industry standard solutions. In addition, the Aira developed AI-based Radio Network Management rApp has achieved up to 23% reduction on RAN power consumption. Aira's technologies will be on display in multiple partner booths at MWC.

Key Points: 
  • BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Aira Technologies, a pioneer in the application of Machine Learning (ML) to radically improve wireless telecommunications, today announced that its near-real time AI-based MIMO Channel Estimation and Prediction xApp can achieve >2X throughput improvement, compared to industry standard solutions.
  • In addition, the Aira developed AI-based Radio Network Management rApp has achieved up to 23% reduction on RAN power consumption.
  • ML presents a natural framework to classify these conditions accurately and process the RAN signals optimally for each of these conditions.
  • We are seeing tremendous MU-MIMO throughput gains from our ML-based channel prediction xApp and we are working on applying our ML framework to other RAN functionalities," said Ravikiran Gopalan, Founder and CTO of Aira Technologies.

Aira Technologies demonstrates ML-based Dynamic Radio Network Management to Drive Dramatic Energy Efficiency for 4G/5G Networks with AWS and Juniper Networks®

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Thursday, February 23, 2023
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SARATOGA, Calif., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Aira Technologies, a pioneer in the application of machine learning (ML) to radically improve wireless telecommunications, today announced that together with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Juniper Networks, and Viavi, they will be demonstrating their ML-based Dynamic Radio Network Management solution at Mobile World Congress 2023 to help mobile network operators (MNOs) reduce RAN energy consumption.

Key Points: 
  • With rising energy costs, MNOs are under greater pressure to uncover energy efficiencies that won't compromise network performance, incur added costs, or impact customer satisfaction.
  • Aira developed a ML-based Dynamic Radio Network Management application (rApp) that was built using AWS ML services and runs atop the Juniper® RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC).
  • This means the rApp can deliver advanced 5G energy savings capabilities to both Open RAN and Legacy RAN.
  • "We look forward to continuing our work with AWS and Juniper Networks to make cellular networks significantly more energy efficient."

Aira Technologies, in collaboration with Microsoft and Intel, demonstrates an xApp to dramatically improve 5G MU-MIMO efficiency and throughput using AI

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Thursday, February 23, 2023
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SARATOGA, Calif., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Aira Technologies, a pioneer in the application of Machine Learning (ML) to radically improve wireless telecommunications, today announced that it will deliver a near-real time application (xApp) that will work in concert with the Azure Operator Distributed Services to deliver advanced 5G RAN capabilities that have long been requested by Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). Aira has used sophisticated machine learning (ML) techniques to develop one of the industry's first xApp that enables better channel estimation and unprecedented channel prediction performance to help maximize downlink throughput and range. The Intel FlexRAN™ reference software, with a software based Layer 1 (L1), provides the flexibility to tap into the right part of the L1 to enable the xApp. Accurate channel prediction helps minimize inter-user interference in order to maximize multi-user MIMO performance. Disaggregated and programmable networks promise more innovation using software solutions.

Key Points: 
  • Accurate channel prediction helps minimize inter-user interference in order to maximize multi-user MIMO performance.
  • "Aira's innovation in applying sophisticated ML to the 5G physical layer enables significant performance improvements in the RAN.
  • The RU itself is connected in an end-to-end fashion to the Aira DU, a Capgemini CU, and a Capgemini Core.
  • The output of the xApp is the prediction of channel evolution in-between S-slots, which results in improvements in RAN throughput and coverage.

Aira Technologies and VMware, in Collaboration with Intel, Demonstrate World's first xApp to Dramatically Improve 5G MU-MIMO Efficiency and Throughput using AI

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Thursday, February 16, 2023
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SARATOGA, Calif., Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Aira Technologies, a pioneer in the application of Machine Learning (ML) to radically improve wireless telecommunications, today announced that it plans to deliver a near-real time application (xApp) that will work in concert with the VMware RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) platform to deliver advanced 5G RAN capabilities that have long been requested by the TIP RIA sub-group of the TIP Open RAN 5G NR Project Group. The TIP RIA subgroup is led by Vodafone, BT and T-Mobile USA.

Key Points: 
  • Aira has used sophisticated ML techniques to develop the industry's first xApp to enable better channel estimation and unprecedented channel prediction performance to help maximize downlink throughput and range.
  • The Intel FlexRAN™ reference software, with a software based L1, provided the flexibility to tap into the right part of the L1 to enable the xApp.
  • Aira has chosen to integrate their channel estimation and projection xApp using the VMware RIC SDK to meet the critical timing requirements of baseband processing.
  • The output of the xApp is the prediction of channel evolution in-between S-slots, which results in improvements in RAN throughput and coverage.

Aira Technologies develops world's first AI-based channel estimation and prediction xApp, is awarded Telecom Infrastructure Project "Requirements Compliant Bronze Badge"

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
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SARATOGA, Calif., Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Aira Technologies, a pioneer in the application of Machine Learning (ML) to radically improve wireless telecommunications, today announced that it has been awarded a Requirements Compliant Bronze Badge from the Telecom Infrastructure Project (TIP), for delivering an AI-based High Fidelity MIMO Channel Estimation and Prediction application (x2 xApp). The requirements of the x2 xApp have been specified by the RAN Intelligence & Automation (RIA) subgroup of the TIP Open RAN 5G NR Project Group. The TIP RIA subgroup is led by Vodafone, BT and T-Mobile USA.

Key Points: 
  • The TIP RIA subgroup is focused on bringing the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and data science technologies to the Open RAN ecosystem.
  • "Aira's xApp delivers against this need by providing high-fidelity beam management through improved channel estimation and prediction.
  • The Aira AI-based High Fidelity MIMO Channel Estimation and Prediction xApp runs atop the RIC.
  • We invite you to visit us at the TIP booth in Hall 5 Stand 5A40 at MWC to see Aira's channel estimation and prediction technology in action.

Wireless Veteran Dr. Babak Jafarian joins Aira Technologies' leadership team as head of 5G systems

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Thursday, November 10, 2022
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SARATOGA, Calif., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Aira Technologies, a pioneer in the application of Machine Learning (ML) to radically improve wireless telecommunications, today announced that Dr. Babak Jafarian has been appointed Vice President and 5G Systems Lead effective immediately.

Key Points: 
  • Dr. Jafarian joins Aira from Mavenir, where he served as Senior Director for 5G Open RAN product management.
  • At Mavenir, Jafarian led 5G product design and delivery to various tier 1 MNOs, including the very first cloud-native 5G network in the world.
  • Prior to Mavenir, Jafarian served in senior 5G product and 5G solution architect roles at Parallel Wireless, Ericsson, and Casa Systems.
  • To that end, the company has assembled a team with a rare combination of 5G wireless technology and cutting-edge AI expertise.