Nvidia has partnered with a variety of global telecom providers for a commitment to build 6G on open and secure artificial intelligence-native platforms, bringing software-defined networking to telecommunications.
Announced at the Mobile World Congress conference, the list of Nvidia partners is a who’s who of telecom — Booz Allen, BT Group, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, MITRE, Nokia, OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation, ODC, SK Telecom, SoftBank Corp. and T-Mobile. Initial trials for 6G are expected to start as early as 2028, and the new network is expected to launch commercially around 2030.
“Unlike 5G, 6G is being born in the AI era, and the networks of today simply aren’t ready for the use cases of tomorrow,” said Ronnie Vasishta, senior vice president of telecommunications at Nvidia on conference call with the tech media. “Remember, AI did not exist when 5G was being defined. So using AI to even improve the networks wasn’t possible in that definitional phase.”
