Ronnie Vasishta on spectrum policy
From NVIDIA GTC DC Telecom Special Address: Pioneering 6G With AI—From Vision to First Milestones Now · · NVIDIA
“The CTIA in the US said we will be by the end of 2027 ten exabytes per month short on spectrum, which over a 10-year period will result in a $1.4 trillion loss of economic growth; so while we need to add more spectrum, make more spectrum available, we also need to be much more spectrally efficient.”
On , Ronnie Vasishta, SVP Telecom at Nvidia, spoke about spectrum policy during NVIDIA GTC DC Telecom Special Address: Pioneering 6G With AI—From Vision to First Milestones Now on NVIDIA.
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.