Nvidia got its ducks in order, ahead of MWC and its own GTC, presenting an update on its Aerial offering – which it is now positioning as a no-brainer monetization opportunity for operators. Keven Deierling, Nvidia’s SVP Networking, outlined the opportunity, which raises questions for operators that are both desperate for growth but constrained by their budgets. Nvidia Aerial, its application framework for using Nvidia’s GPU portfolio to construct a GPU-accelerated cloud-native 5G vRAN platform, is sold to MNOs that ‘want to do AI and get 5G for free.’ It’s a strange pitch, as it relies on overprovisioning the vRAN capacity, and then using the idle capacity to run third-party apps. Overprovisioning is usually wasteful, but the reasoning from Nvidia…