Ronnie Vasishta on telecommunications industry
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“So I'll make a bold statement. There's never been a better time than now to be in the telecommunications industry.”
On , Ronnie Vasishta, SVP Telecom at Nvidia, spoke about telecommunications industry during Delivering AI-Native 6G with AI-RAN: Nvidia SVP Ronnie Vasishta at Cambridge 6G Symposium on TITAN Telecoms Hub.
About Ronnie Vasishta
Ronnie Vasishta, Nvidia's Senior Vice President of Telecom, spoke at the Cambridge 6G Symposium on March 28, 2025, about the convergence of telecommunications and artificial intelligence. He stated that "there's never been a better time than now to be in the telecommunications industry," describing the current moment as an opportunity for "multi-generational work" by combining AI with telecom networks. Vasishta noted that this integration would not have been possible during the formation of 5G a decade ago. Vasishta discussed Nvidia's work on AI-native 6G networks, including accelerating layer one of the 5G stack on GPUs and expanding into layer two functions. He highlighted demonstrations by the AI-RAN Alliance, which grew from 10 to over 75 member companies in a year, showing performance improvements through neural network-based processing. Vasishta also described using Nvidia's Aerial Omniverse digital twin for physics-accurate RF simulation, citing a SoftBank project that optimized throughput for a baseball stadium in Tokyo. He argued that "as we go to intelligent networks, compute latency becomes a much bigger factor" than network latency.