Telecom networks are under growing pressure to do more with less. As data demand rises exponentially and energy costs climb, operators are struggling to balance performance, efficiency, and profitability. Despite investing heavily in 5G, many have yet to realize its full potential. The networks powering today’s connectivity remain complex, rigid, and costly to operate, while users continue to expect faster, cheaper, and more reliable service. What’s Needed is a smarter, AI-powered approach to managing spectrum, energy, and performance.

Aira Technologies stands at the forefront of this transformation. As a pioneer in AI-defined networking, Aira is redefining how Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) design, manage, and optimize their Radio Access Networks (RANs). Through its advanced AI and Generative AI (GenAI) solutions, the company helps operators unlock new levels of spectral, operational, and energy efficiency—turning complexity into clarity and cost into opportunity.

At the heart of Aira’s innovation is Naavik, its intent-based GenAI platform. Naavik observes, analyzes, and automates network operations, helping operators build, test, and deploy AI models rapidly. What once took months can now be achieved in just days, driving significant gains in operational efficiency and responsiveness.

Recognized globally for its innovation, Aira recently partnered with AT&T and Ericsson to deploy the world’s first GenAI-generated rApp in AT&T’s test environment, a milestone proving that AI can truly reshape network performance and efficiency.

Naavik: Aira’s Intent-Based GenAI Platform

Telecom networks are among the most complex systems in the world, generating vast amounts of data every second. Yet, for many operators, the true potential of this data remains untapped. The challenge lies not in the lack of information, but in the difficulty of transforming it quickly into insights that improve network performance, reliability, and customer experience. This is the space where Aira Technologies’ Naavik platform stands out, an intent-based Generative AI (GenAI) system designed to simplify how telecom networks are observed, analyzed, controlled, and automated.

Naavik is built to address the fundamental barriers to operational efficiency — the ability to manage, analyze, and act on massive volumes of network data swiftly and intelligently. Operators often struggle with three core challenges: overwhelming data, disjointed analysis, and slow experimentation. While networks collect enormous amounts of performance and configuration data, teams typically rely on multiple departments and manual coding to make sense of it. This fragmented process slows down innovation, making it difficult to test new ideas or improve quality of service in real time.

Naavik changes that by serving as an intelligent RAN assistant powered by GenAI. It allows network experts to interact with their data through natural language, turning complex, multi-step technical processes into simple, conversational tasks. Naavik can understand plain-language queries, access diverse telecom data sources, and automatically write scripts to retrieve and visualize the requested insights. This eliminates the need for specialized coding or manual database work.

Architecturally, Naavik operates securely on an operator’s on-prem cloud. For observation and analysis, it requires only read-only access to network data, whether from static databases or live data streams like Kafka. For control and automation, it connects southbound through SON or SMO interfaces to interact directly with RAN elements.

AI-Powered Solutions Redefining Network Efficiency and Performance

Aira Technologies is meeting telecom challenges head-on with a suite of powerful AI-driven solutions designed to modernize the Radio Access Network (RAN). Through intelligent automation and deep data insights, Aira enables Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to dramatically enhance operational, energy, and spectral efficiency, transforming how networks perform and evolve.

Energy Management Suite: It is at the forefront of sustainable innovation, delivering a remarkable 25% improvement in energy efficiency. Using advanced AI algorithms, the suite intelligently manages radio states by “cell-locking” radios during low-traffic periods, reducing energy consumption without impacting user experience. It dynamically optimizes MIMO state configurations to right-size radios based on real-time demand and fine-tunes transmit power control to use only the energy required to maintain service quality. Together, these optimizations create a more energy-conscious network that operates smarter, cleaner, and more cost-effectively—supporting both business and environmental goals.

Aira’s Beam Management Suite: It unlocks more than 2x improvement in spectral efficiency, allowing operators to do far more with their existing spectrum resources. The suite leverages AI to refine how base stations handle signal transmission, channel estimation, and scheduling. Improved channel estimation adapts signal processing to each user’s unique conditions, such as movement speed or distance from the base station. Channel prediction reduces performance degradation caused by user mobility, while optimal beam weight calculation enhances signal directionality and suppresses interference. Finally, cross-layer optimized scheduling ensures data flows through the network seamlessly, boosting throughput and overall user satisfaction.

Together, these AI-powered suites represent a fundamental shift in how telecom networks operate, replacing static, manual processes with intelligent, self-optimizing systems that continuously learn and adapt. Aira Technologies is not only improving the efficiency of today’s networks but also laying the groundwork for the fully autonomous, energy-smart, and spectrum-optimized networks of tomorrow.

Anand Chandrasekher | Co-Founder & CEO

“We're applying AI to help mobile network operators modernize their existing RAN. Operators can then capture efficiencies in spectrum, energy, and OpEx.”