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POC|AI-RAN Alliance · Value-Translation Layer

The reasoning layer the AI-RAN stack is missing

The Alliance is optimizing the radio. Far fewer are proving the optimization mattered financially. This proof-of-concept walks one sourced chain — 3GPP KPI → O-RAN workflow → AI action → operational outcome → financial impact → VRI — in both directions, with the evidence behind every edge.

AI for RAN

Using AI to improve RAN performance — energy, spectral efficiency, MIMO. The bottom of our chain lives here.

AI and RAN

Running AI and RAN on shared infrastructure. The economics this layer ultimately scores.

AI on RAN

AI services delivered over the RAN. Downstream of the value this layer makes legible.

Bidirectional reasoning traversal

Diagnosis · top-down

"Why is EBITDA falling?"

Energy OpEx is the largest controllable driver of margin varianceHigh

Massive MIMO accounts for the majority of cell-site energy drawHigh

Energy savings are realized only when the rApp's policy is enforcedMedium

rApp policy depends on the underlying Rel-19 NES capability being activeMedium

Capability is present in firmware but disabled by a vendor default flagMedium

Value Realization Index

42/ 100

Share of available value the network is actually capturing. The gap is the un-actuated capability the chain just exposed.

Edge provenance

Click any node to inspect the evidence and confidence behind its links. Every edge cites a standards body — no unsourced reasoning.

Each layer owned by a standards body

TM ForumBusiness + Autonomous Networks layer
O-RANRIC / rApp workflow + interfaces
3GPPKPI + Release feature layer
VendorSoftware baseline / root-cause events

Why this is the hard, defensible part

Anyone in the Alliance can out-engineer a single radio technique. Almost no one is building the bidirectional, provenance-carrying graph that connects a disabled vendor flag to an EBITDA miss — and back. The moat is not the algorithm; it is the discipline that every edge carries its source and confidence. An unsourced graph is the hallucination problem in a new form. This layer refuses to assert a causal link it cannot cite.

Proof-of-concept. References to 3GPP / O-RAN / TM Forum are illustrative and being hardened against published specifications. The architecture — not the specific figures — is what this demo proves.