Brooklyn 6G Summit 2023 highlights

Creating the Foundation for 6G

For the 10th time, Nokia and the NYU Wireless research center brought together some of the most creative minds in the business for one of the most distinguished gatherings of the communications industry. This year’s Brooklyn 6G Summit included a series of keynote addresses, lively panels and physical demonstrations showcasing this year’s theme of “Creating the Foundation for 6G.”

Together, they highlighted the key technologies that will define the next era of advanced wireless communications. Key takeaways included the centrality of artificial intelligence and the network itself in the 6G era and the need for a global 6G standard. Participants delved deeply into all matters of technology enablers of the Metaverse: cloud computing, Al/ML, private 5G/6G networks, security, device capability, split rendering and edge. New spectrum was also agreed upon as a key for 6G success.

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The 10th Brooklyn Summit focused on creating the foundation for 6G

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“6G will transform what a network can do, while building on existing technologies. Sustainability is at the core of our design requirement. We need to support an order of magnitude higher capacity.”

Peter Vetter

Nokia Bell Labs President for Core Research

“I think without standards, we would not have interoperability, we would not meet regulatory requirements, and we would not bring scale effects to the market.”

Peter Merz

Head of Nokia Standards

“Researchers having those deep conversations helps inspire them to look at new problems, helps to inform the research that they are doing and helps them to go back to their universities and excite the students.”

Andrea Goldsmith

Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton

“We can generally understand what the customers want to get out of the technology, but we have to understand from a network operator standpoint how we are going to monetize those use cases.”

Chris Sambar

AT&T Executive Vice President