NVIDIA unveiled the first “All-American” AI-native wireless stack to drive the transition toward 6G networks, working with partners Booz Allen Hamilton, Cisco, MITRE, ODC, and T-Mobile. The stack, built on NVIDIA’s AI Aerial platform, integrates AI throughout the radio access network (RAN) architecture—combining connectivity, compute, and sensing to handle the explosive growth of AI-driven wireless traffic. The initiative, known as AI-WIN, aims to strengthen U.S. leadership in next-generation telecommunications through locally developed hardware, software, and applications.
The AI-RAN stack marks the first successful user-to-user call over a fully AI-native network, completed at NVIDIA’s Santa Clara campus. It merges ODC’s 5G RAN software, Cisco’s 5G core and user-plane functions, and new sensing applications from MITRE and Booz Allen. Cisco’s role focuses on secure, AI-enhanced network connectivity for the AI era, while ODC’s software-defined 5G RAN delivers simultaneous AI and RAN workloads, achieving up to seven times greater cell capacity and 3.5 times higher power efficiency than legacy systems.
Early applications include Booz Allen’s multimodal Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) system, which fuses camera and RF data for object detection in poor visibility; MITRE’s AI-powered spectrum agility tool that dynamically manages spectrum allocation in real time; and Booz Allen’s R.AI.DIO spectrum-sensing system to detect interference or jamming. Together, these innovations enable networks that sense, learn, and act—supporting public safety, industrial automation, and national security use cases. NVIDIA’s new Aerial Framework further extends these capabilities with programmable pipelines and APIs for third-party integration and reinforcement learning on live physical-layer data.
“6G is being built from the ground up with AI at its core — unlocking extreme spectral efficiency, massive connectivity and breakthrough applications,” said Ronnie Vasishta, senior vice president of telecom at NVIDIA. “Working with industry leaders, we’ve created an AI-native wireless stack with advanced features to ensure that America will play an instrumental role in the journey to 6G.”
🌐 Analysis: NVIDIA’s AI-RAN stack marks a milestone in U.S. telecom innovation, positioning AI as the foundation for 6G system design. By aligning with major U.S. labs and partners such as Cisco and MITRE, NVIDIA is extending its AI platform strategy beyond data centers into radio networks. This also challenges global competitors, including Ericsson and Nokia, which are pursuing parallel AI-native RAN initiatives in Europe and Asia.
