How NVIDIA Open Source Tools Are Helping Researchers Build Next-Generation 6G Networks
NVIDIA, Friday, November 6th, 2026
NVIDIA says its open source Aerial and Sionna 5G/6G tools passed 1 million downloads and are used by over 8,000 research institutions.
A year after open sourcing its Aerial wireless software, NVIDIA reports 10x growth in developer adoption of AI Aerial and Sionna, more than 1 million downloads of its open source 5G/6G tools and use by over 8,000 research and academic institutions.
King's College London used Sionna on a Jetson AGX Orin for goal-oriented semantic communications, cutting robot task completion time by up to 52.6%.
SoftBank integrated a neural receiver into NVIDIA Aerial CUDA-Accelerated RAN and saw up to roughly 60% higher uplink throughput under interference, while ETH Zurich cut block error rates by over a third by tuning receivers with local data.
The University of Leeds reported a 45.6% reduction in RAN power use by predicting demand and putting base stations to sleep.