Supermicro expands support for AI-RAN and sovereign AI platforms

Supermicro expanded support for infrastructure for AI-enabled radio access networks (AI-RAN) and sovereign Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms and presented partner demonstrations at Mobile World Congress Barcelona to illustrate real-world deployments.

The company said adoption of AI in telecom networks was growing as operators sought greater efficiency and automation. The press material described AI-RAN as embedding intelligence into the Radio Access Network (RAN) to optimize spectrum, energy, and performance while creating a distributed network that supports AI solutions.

The release described several server platforms: the ARS-111L-FR, a short-depth 1U system built for distributed RAN workloads that used an NVIDIA Grace Central Processing Unit (CPU) C1, ConnectX Ethernet adapters, and provided space for up to two low-profile GPUs such as the NVIDIA L4; the ARS-221GL-NR, a 2U Grace Superchip system supporting up to two double-width NVIDIA GPUs and updated to accommodate NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs; and the ARS-111GL-NHR, a 1U GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip system with integrated Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), 900GB/s NVLink interconnect, and support for NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and ConnectX Ethernet adapters.

The announcement outlined partner deployments and validated designs. Telenor launched Telenor AI Factory, described as Norway's first sovereign AI cloud platform hosted entirely within Norway; SK Telecom built the Haein Cluster comprising over 1,000 Supermicro AI servers equipped with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs at the Gasan AI Data Center to provide GPU-as-a-Service for training, inference, and model development; Nokia validated its AnyRAN software to run on Supermicro's ARS-111GL-NHR and introduced a validated infrastructure design based on Supermicro AS-8125GS-TNMR2 servers; and Viettel High Tech used Supermicro short-depth 1U edge servers in a large Open RAN-based 5G network.

“Delivering AI to the RAN at scale requires infrastructure optimized for telecom networks,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. “As operators embed intelligence across their networks and advance sovereign AI strategies, Supermicro's flexible Data Center Building Block Solutions® (DCBBS) and deep ecosystem collaborations enable rapid deployment of high-performance, energy-efficient solutions that help ensure data sovereignty and long-term scalability.”

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