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‘‘ business accelerated infrastructure, boosting performance, efficiency and monetization while enabling a smooth, cost-effective path to 6G.
New capabilities are added through software updates, future-proofing investments for 6G and beyond while enabling rapid innovation cycles at the pace of AI. It serves growing generative AI and agentic AI traffic on the same sites as RAN functions, applying AI algorithms to improve spectral and energy efficiency as well as overall network performance, and by tapping into underutilized RAN assets to host edge AI services and maximize return on investment.
“ T-Mobile remains committed to advancing nextgeneration technologies that redefine the customer experience. Our collaboration with industry leaders Nokia and NVIDIA marks an important step toward shaping the future of connectivity as we develop the innovations that will power the 6G era. Building on the foundation established by the AI-RAN Innovation Center in 2024, this strategic initiative reinforces T-Mobile’ s leadership in driving the US wireless industry forward. Beginning in 2026, T-Mobile will conduct field evaluations and testing of advanced AI-RAN technologies to ensure they meet the evolving needs of our customers as we move toward 6G,” said John Saw, President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer, T-Mobile.
The telecommunications industry owns the most valuable real estate for AI – the edge, where data is created. This AI-RAN collaboration with Nokia and NVIDIA makes that potential real. We’ ve built some of the world’ s largest AI clusters with 100,000 + GPUs. Now we’ re applying that expertise to distribute intelligence across millions of edge nodes. The operators who modernize their infrastructure today won’ t just carry AI traffic – they’ ll be the distributed AI grid factories that process it at the source, where latency matters and data sovereignty is critical,” said Michael Dell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dell Technologies.
Additional AI networking solutions cooperation
Nokia and NVIDIA will also collaborate on AI networking solutions, including data center switching with Nokia’ s SR Linux software for the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform and the application of Nokia’ s telemetry and fabric management platform on NVIDIA AI infrastructure.
The companies will also explore the use of Nokia’ s optical technologies and capabilities as part of future NVIDIA AI infrastructure architecture. p
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