GTC -- AT&T Corp. and NVIDIA today
announced a collaboration in which AT&T will continue to
transform its operations and enhance sustainability by using
NVIDIA-powered AI for processing data, optimizing service-fleet
routing and building digital avatars for employee support and
training.
AT&T is the first telecommunications provider to explore the
use of a full suite of NVIDIA AI offerings. This includes enhancing
its data processing using the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite,
which includes the NVIDIA RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark;
enabling real-time vehicle routing and optimization with NVIDIA
cuOpt; adopting digital avatars with NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar Cloud
Engine and NVIDIA Tokkio; and utilizing conversational AI with
NVIDIA Riva.
“We strive each day to deliver the most efficient global
network, as we drive towards net zero emissions in our operations,”
said Andy Markus, chief data officer at AT&T. “Working with
NVIDIA to drive AI solutions across our business will help enhance
experiences for both our employees and customers.”
“Industries are embracing a new era in which chatbots,
recommendation engines and accelerated libraries for data
optimization help produce AI-driven innovations,” said Manuvir Das,
vice president of Enterprise Computing at NVIDIA. “Our work with
AT&T will help the company better mine its data to drive new
services and solutions for the AI-powered telco.”
The Data DilemmaAT&T, which has pledged to
be carbon neutral by 2035, has instituted broad initiatives to make
its operations more efficient. A major challenge is optimizing
energy consumption while providing network infrastructure that
delivers data at high speeds.
AT&T processes more than 590 petabytes of data on average a
day. That is the equivalent of about 6.5 million 4K movies or more
than 8x the content housed in the U.S. Library of Congress if all
its collections were digitized.
Telecoms aiming to reduce energy consumption face challenges
across their operations. Within networks, the radio access network
(RAN) consumes 73% of energy, while core network services, data
centers and operations use 13%, 9% and 5%, respectively, according
to the GSMA, a mobile industry trade group.
AT&T first adopted NVIDIA RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache
Spark to capitalize on energy-efficient GPUs across its AI and data
science pipelines. This helped boost its operational efficiency
across everything from training AI models and maintaining network
quality and optimization, to reducing customer churn and improving
fraud detection.
Of the data and AI pipelines targeted with Spark-RAPIDS,
AT&T saves about half of its cloud computing spend and sees
faster performance, while enabling reductions in its carbon
footprint.
Enhanced Field Dispatch Services AT&T,
which operates one of the largest field dispatch teams to service
its customers, is currently testing NVIDIA cuOpt software to
enhance its field dispatch capabilities to handle more complex
technician routing and optimization challenges.
Routing requires trillions of computations to factor in a
variety of factors, from traffic and weather conditions to customer
change of plans or a technician’s skill level, where a complicated
job might then require an additional truck roll.
In early trials, cuOpt delivered solutions in 10 seconds, while
the same computation on x86 CPUs took 1,000 seconds. The results
yielded a 40% reduction in cloud costs and allowed technicians to
complete more service calls each day. NVIDIA cuOpt allows AT&T
to run nearly continuous dispatch optimization software by
combining NVIDIA RAPIDS with local search heuristics algorithms and
metaheuristics such as Tabu search.
Pleasing Customers, Speeding Network DesignAs
part of its efforts to improve productivity for its more than
150,000 employees, AT&T is moving to adopt NVIDIA Omniverse ACE
and NVIDIA Tokkio, cloud-native AI microservices, workflows and
application frameworks for developers to easily build, customize
and deploy interactive avatars that see, perceive, intelligently
converse and provide recommendations to enhance the customer
service experience.
For conversational AI, the carrier also uses the NVIDIA Riva
software development kit and is examining other customer service
and operations use cases for digital twins and generative AI.
AT&T also is taking advantage of fast 5G and its fiber
network to deliver NVIDIA GeForce NOW™ cloud gaming at 120 frames
per second on mobile and 240 FPS at home.
About NVIDIASince its founding in 1993, NVIDIA
(NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The
company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC
gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of
modern AI and is fueling the creation of the metaverse. NVIDIA is
now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings
that are reshaping industries. More information at
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
For further information, contact:Cliff
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