Union Minister Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurates 5G Open RAN testing Lab at CDoT, Bangalore

Minister of Communications, Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia visited Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) Bengaluru Campus and inaugurated the 5G O-RAN (Open Radio Access Network) Testing lab.

Purpose

The Lab will facilitate development of a complete Indian end to end 5G ecosystem in the areas of core, access, transport, cloud, orchestration and security.

Remarks By Him

• He encouraged the young engineers to continue their zeal and passion to innovate for realizing the vision of Hon’ble Prime Minister  towards “Atmanirbhar Bharat”  and  progressing to  “Viksit Bharat 2047”.
• The Minister lauded C-DOT’s collaborative research initiatives including BharatRAN-1 and BharatRAN-2 for the development of O-RAN compliant disaggregated 5G RAN solution capable of operation in the FR1 (Frequency Range)  and FR2 bands for public & private 5G networks.
• He assured full policy support for facilitating research and innovation in Bengaluru, the ‘Silicon Valley’ of India.

Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia also inaugurates Wireless Center of Excellence at Tejas Networks

Objective

• Seeks to advance research in frontier technologies, standards and architectures that will underpin next-generation mobile networks as they evolve towards 6G and beyond.
• The Center of Excellence houses state-of-the-art modeling tools and test infrastructure to design, prototype and commercialize innovative wireless products and solutions that will support emerging usage scenarios and applications as envisaged in ITU-R’s IMT-2030 (International Mobile Telecommunications) framework.
• The center currently focuses on contributions in emerging areas such as AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning), Terahertz Communications, Sub-band Full Duplex among others.