MWC25: Nvidia Drives Telco Transformation with AI
Nvidia is implementing AI solutions throughout the telecommunications industry, reshaping everything from network infrastructure to spectral efficiency optimisation.
Showcasing technology at MWC Barcelona 2025, the company is integrating AI capabilities across the telecommunications value chain, positioning its computational architecture as foundational for next-generation mobile networks.
Ronnie Vasishta, Senior Vice President of Telecom at Nvidia, described the company’s approach to the telecommunications market. “We’re a platform company, but we go to market vertically,” he says. “What that really means is that as our customers and partners look at us, what they want to see are building blocks and solutions that are meaningful to a telecom audience.”
The company positions its products within telecommunications contexts rather than focusing solely on hardware specifications. “Even though people talk about GPUs today – or the silicon, or the systems – what we have to do is put that in context of telecommunications and how we can help our partners, our ecosystem and our customers in their telecommunications journey,” he adds.
Implementing AI solutions
As Ronnie explains, the telecommunications sector has demonstrated receptiveness to AI implementation, with adoption rates accelerating following broader AI advancements in consumer applications.
“Since the ChatGPT moment, MWC has really gravitated towards the fusion of both AI and telecommunications,” he explains. This shift enables new capabilities throughout the telecommunications value chain.
"What we are able to do is work with telecommunications companies or telcos all the way from things like customer experience, customer care, network operations, productivity enhancements within the telecom operator themselves, but also all the way down to infrastructure."
The infrastructure component offers potential for computational efficiency and network performance improvements.
"As we look to virtualise the infrastructure, make it software defined, AI lends itself to both the productivity enhancements, the efficiency of the infrastructure, but also the spectral efficiency that's achieved by adding AI to the infrastructure," Ronne says.
Expanding the Nvidia AI ecosystem
The company maintains strategic partnerships across the telecommunications stack, from hardware manufacturers to application developers, enabling end-to-end AI integration.
“We are very connected to our ecosystems up and down the stack of offerings," Ronnie says. “In telecommunications, our ecosystem extends from the hardware to the systems, the software, the telcos and the applications that run on top of that.”
“Since the ChatGPT moment, MWC has really gravitated towards the fusion of both AI and telecommunications.”
For instance, OEM manufacturers are now putting Nvidia hardware into their servers, enabling the company’s solutions to be deployed from the edge of the network all the way to the central infrastructure.
Software providers represent another key segment of this ecosystem. “Then you have software providers and service providers that are adding OSS and BSS type billing systems, for instance, where they’re using generative AI,” Ronnie explains.
“You have customer care partners where you’re adding AI in voice assistance in text prompts where you’re using AI for enhanced experience and productivity enhancements,” he adds.
Transforming Radio Access Networks
The AI-RAN Alliance, co-founded by Nvidia, has experienced significant membership growth.
"About a year ago we were one of the founding companies within the AI RAN Alliance. What's encouraging to me is how quickly within one year that membership has grown from 10 companies to 75 companies," Ronnie notes.
MWC demonstrations from Nvidia highlighted how neural networks improve spectral efficiency—the volume of data transmissible over limited bandwidth. "That's got a huge impact on the monetisation capabilities of the industry," he adds.
"About a year ago we were one of the founding companies within the AI RAN Alliance. What’s encouraging to me is how quickly within one year that membership has grown from 10 companies to 75 companies."
The company’s AI RAN+ initiative represents one approach to addressing these challenges. Ronnie also notes "all the applications that are now running, AI applications that are now running over the radio access network."
Reflecting on the transformation visible throughout MWC, Ronnie observes the unmistakable shift within the telecommunications sector: “The obvious is how quickly this industry is gravitating towards AI solutions,” he concludes. “It’s hard for you to go around any of the booths here today and not be excited by the prospect of what AI can add to telecommunication.”
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