Bandwidth R&D’s AWS DeepRacer 2021 Season Recap

Bandwidth's Research & Development (R&D) team explores various technologies to provide new revenue streams and enhance existing service offerings. The R&D team built prototypes for services such as 2FA, WebRTC, and hyper-scale messaging services. Occasionally, the team also works on side projects unrelated to Bandwidth's core products. In mid-2021, Bandwidth's R&D DeepRacer team participated in the AWS DeepRacer competition, which involved reinforcement learning for a car driving around a track. The team used various strategies and reward functions to improve their model's performance, ultimately finishing 29th out of 231 competitors. This experience allowed the team to raise awareness about machine learning within Bandwidth and explore potential applications for this technology in the company's products and services.