Building the foundation model for telecom

The AI-native platform
for the autonomous RAN.

At the core of Otter RAN is a Telecom Foundation Model — a frontier LLM re-trained on the language of networks: alarms, counters, configurations, and the 3GPP / O-RAN specifications themselves. On top of it, agents that operate the network: NOC Copilot for incident diagnosis, Agentic SMO for Open RAN orchestration, and RAN Config Audit for the DU and RU. Every deployment feeds the model. The model sharpens every product.

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NOC Copilot
AI alarm correlation
for the multi-vendor NOC

Ingests alarms from Netcool, NetAct, ENM, iManager, and any SNMP source. ML correlation replaces 10,000 hand-coded rules — root cause in under 90 seconds, vendor-agnostic, no OSS rip-and-replace.

30–70%
Fewer troubleshooting tickets
<90s
Alarm to root-cause diagnosis
55–80%
NOC cost reduction
4 wks
PoC on your historical data
Design targets — to be validated with design partners
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Agentic SMO
Autonomous orchestration
for Open RAN

An O-RAN-aligned Service Management & Orchestration layer driven by AI agents. Manages rApp and xApp lifecycles, enforces SLAs, and optimises energy — from operator intent to RAN action, automatically.

17–25%
Energy savings per cell site
O1·A1·O2
O-RAN Alliance compliant interfaces
Days
Time to onboard a new O-RAN component
L4
TM Forum autonomous network target
Design targets — to be validated with design partners
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RAN Config Audit · Roadmap
Read-only audit of
DU and RU configuration

The same foundation model, pointed at the radio's configuration — read-only. It parses vendor YANG models natively and checks live DU / RU config against operator intent, 3GPP / O-RAN specs, and vendor best practice, flagging drift and misconfigurations before they become outages. No write access; audit and flag only.

Read-only
Zero write access — audit and flag only
YANG
Vendor models parsed natively, checked against spec
On the roadmap — read-only by design, so it can ship early
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Built to sit on top of the multi-vendor estate operators already run
Nokia Ericsson Samsung Mavenir Cisco IBM Netcool ServiceNow

One foundation model.
Every layer of the RAN.

General-purpose LLMs don't speak network. Otter RAN starts from a frontier model and re-trains it on telecom — alarm streams, performance counters, configuration data, vendor documentation, and the 3GPP / O-RAN specifications. Every product is an agentic surface over that one model, so each deployment makes the whole platform smarter.

Telecom Foundation Model

An LLM post-trained on the language of networks: alarms, counters, YANG models, CLI output, and the standards that define them. It reads a fault report the way a senior RAN engineer does — because it was trained on the same material, at scale.

Agentic runtime

Agents built on the model act inside operator-defined intents and guardrails: read-mostly by default, every action policy-checked, every decision auditable. Autonomy you can widen gradually — from recommendations, to approvals, to closed loop.

Products that compound

NOC Copilot, Agentic SMO, and the RAN configuration domain share one model and one data layer. An incident diagnosed in the NOC informs orchestration decisions; a config change pushed by the SMO updates the Copilot's baseline. Each surface makes the others better.

Autonomy you widen
one rung at a time.

A single AI-caused incident can end an automation program. So the platform is built so that can't happen: every product starts read-only, every action is policy-checked and logged with its rationale and a rollback plan, and you decide — per domain — when an agent earns the next rung.

Rung 1 — Observe
Read-only

The platform ingests alarms, counters, and configuration with zero write access. It builds its model of your network and proves its understanding before it's allowed to suggest anything.

Rung 2 — Recommend
Humans execute

Ranked diagnoses and proposed actions, each with evidence, confidence, and expected impact. Your engineers stay in full control — the platform earns credibility one recommendation at a time.

Rung 3 — Approve
One-click actions

Agents prepare the complete action: the change, the guardrail checks it passed, and the rollback plan. A human approves; the platform executes and verifies the outcome against its own prediction.

Rung 4 — Close the loop
Bounded autonomy

In domains where trust is earned — cell sleep schedules, known remediation patterns — agents act autonomously within hard guardrails, with automatic rollback the moment reality diverges from the plan.

Every action at every rung: logged · attributable · reversible

We sit on top of your OSS. We don't replace it.

The platform is a read-mostly, additive intelligence layer. It augments existing infrastructure rather than replacing it — designed so a proof of concept can run on your historical data in weeks, not quarters.

IBM Netcool / OMNIbus
viaKafka Gateway · IDUC · ObjectServer SQL
Copilot
Nokia NetAct / NetCracker
viaSNMP NBI · 3GPP CORBA · REST · O1
Both
Ericsson ENM / Cloud RAN
via3GPP CORBA FM NBI · REST · O1 NETCONF
Both
Huawei iManager U2000 / MAE
viaCORBA NBI · SNMP traps · REST / SOAP
Both
O-RAN Non-RT RIC / Near-RT RIC
viaR1 · A1 · rApp catalogue · xApp coordination
Agentic SMO
Cloud infrastructure
viaO2 · Kubernetes · OpenStack · AWS / Azure / GCP
Agentic SMO
ServiceNow · Remedy · Jira
viaREST · webhooks · enriched ticket creation
Outbound

Purpose-built for telecom. Not adapted from IT ops.

Most AIOps and SMO platforms started life in cross-industry IT operations and were adapted for telecom. Otter RAN starts from the other end: a foundation model trained for the RAN, with products built on top of it.

Dimension
Incumbent platforms
Otter RAN platform
Design origin
Cross-industry IT ops, adapted for telecom
AI-native, built for the RAN from day one
Intelligence core
General-purpose ML bolted onto rule engines
A Telecom Foundation Model that speaks alarms, counters, and 3GPP / O-RAN specs
NOC intelligence
Rule-based correlation, hand-maintained
Model-driven correlation, adapted to your alarm and ticket history
SMO approach
Scripted lifecycle management, static policies
AI agents with operator-defined intents and guardrails
Vendor coverage
Best with own equipment; adapters for others
Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung, Mavenir — same engine
Neutrality
Equipment vendors' AI grades its own homework
No gear to sell — vendor-neutral by design
Deployment model
Full OSS suite commitment required
Additive layer on top of your existing OSS
Time to value
Six-month deployment, then tuning
PoC on your historical data — weeks, not quarters, no live-network risk
Roadmap ceiling
Better dashboards for humans
Agents across NOC, SMO, and eventually DU / RU configuration

Help shape the foundation
model for telecom.

We're partnering with a small number of operators and O-RAN vendors as design partners. Bring your historical alarm and configuration data; get early access, direct influence on the roadmap, and first results on your own network — no OSS replacement, no long-term commitment.

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Design-partner program · On-premises or cloud · Your data never trains another operator's model