MediaTek and its subsidiary Airoha Technology have unveiled what they describe as the world’s first AI-powered fibre gateway platform, in a move aimed at helping telecom operators improve network performance by more than 30%.
The new platform will be displayed at the Network X 2025 event in Paris, later this month..
The Taiwanese chipmaker said the system, which integrates Edge and Cloud-based artificial intelligence, is designed to optimise traffic management, reduce latency, and improve customer experience while cutting operational costs.
The platform combines MediaTek’s Wi-Fi 7 Filogic 680 chipset with Airoha’s XGS-PON AN7581 technology, delivering what the companies claim to be the first gateway to offer carrier-grade AI processing at the network Edge.
It supports multiple open-source software frameworks including prplOS, RDK-B, and OpenWrt, allowing telecom operators to deploy and customise AI-driven services across their networks.
MediaTek said the gateway uses machine learning to analyse traffic flows and autonomously optimise connections between Wi-Fi and fibre networks. The result, according to the company, is improved packet management, reduced interference, and up to 20% higher throughput for end users.
The platform can also perform real-time diagnostics, automatically identifying and resolving network faults. The company claims this can shorten mean time to recovery by 40%. The platform’s neural processing unit supports up to 50 trillion operations per second.
MediaTek suggested that when paired with personal AI servers, the gateway could form the backbone of private micro-AI clouds, opening new revenue opportunities for operators seeking to monetise AI-driven services.
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