Prepare for a surge in data traffic from AI services, advises a top telecom executive at Nvidia, highlighting the need for the US to adapt to this impending shift.
“Traditionally, telecommunications networks delivered voice, data and video. In the future, mobile networks will also be called upon to support a new kind of traffic – AI traffic,” said Ronnie Vasishta, the SVP of telecom at AI chip giant Nvidia.
Vasishta made his comments in Congressional testimony at the ‘AI in the Everyday: Current Applications and Future Frontiers in Communications and Technology’ hearing in the House of Representatives’ Energy & Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
“AI traffic will include the delivery of AI services to the edge, or inferencing at the edge. Mobile networks will support applications such as autonomous vehicles, smart glasses, generative AI services on phones or devices, holographic communication services, collaborative robots, and many more applications that we haven’t thought about yet,” Vasishta said.
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