Benetel is pleased to announce that it has joined the AI-RAN Alliance, an industry initiative bringing together organisations across telecommunications, artificial intelligence and research to advance AI-native Radio Access Networks.
The membership marks another step in Benetel’s engagement with the evolving Open RAN and AI-RAN ecosystem, contributing the perspective of an experienced radio unit technology developer to collaborative industry discussions.
Advancing AI in the Radio Access Network
Artificial intelligence is creating new opportunities to improve how radio access networks operate. From optimising energy consumption and radio performance to enabling more adaptive network behaviour, AI has the potential to make telecommunications infrastructure more intelligent and efficient.
The AI-RAN Alliance addresses these opportunities through collaboration across three complementary areas:
- AI-for-RAN: Applying AI to improve radio network performance, operational efficiency and resource utilisation.
- AI-and-RAN: Exploring shared infrastructure for AI and RAN workloads to improve utilisation and enable new capabilities.
- AI-on-RAN: Enabling AI applications to run on RAN infrastructure, supporting emerging edge AI use cases.
These activities provide a collaborative framework for addressing the technical challenges involved in integrating AI into radio networks.
Benetel’s Contribution to the AI-RAN Ecosystem
With more than 20 years of telecommunications experience, Benetel specialises in the design, development and manufacturing of Open RAN radio units for private 5G networks.
AI-driven energy optimisation is particularly relevant as operators seek ways to improve network efficiency while maintaining radio performance. Within the radio unit, intelligent power-saving decisions can complement time-critical control implemented through FPGA logic.
ISAC represents another important opportunity, combining communication and sensing capabilities to support intelligent object detection, classification and tracking.
Why Industry Collaboration Matters
The evolution towards AI-native networks involves challenges that extend beyond individual technologies. Radio hardware, AI algorithms, data availability, interfaces and system-level validation must work together.
Industry alliances play an important role in bringing these different perspectives together. By developing shared use cases, technical approaches, data frameworks and testing methodologies, organisations can establish a stronger foundation for interoperable and measurable AI-RAN solutions.
For Benetel, participation in the AI-RAN Alliance provides an opportunity to contribute practical radio unit expertise to these discussions, particularly around AI-for-RAN, access to radio data and benchmarking AI-driven performance.
The Alliance’s Data-for-AI and Test Methodology initiatives are especially relevant to the development of approaches that support data access, experimentation and meaningful evaluation of AI-enabled radio capabilities.
Working Together Towards Smarter Networks
Benetel’s membership reflects the importance of collaboration as the telecommunications industry explores the next stage of radio network evolution.
By bringing together expertise across the ecosystem, the AI-RAN Alliance is helping address the technical foundations required for more intelligent, efficient and adaptable networks.
Learn more about the AI-RAN Alliance: https://ai-ran.org/
Explore Benetel’s radio units: https://benetel.com/products