New 5G Open RAN Testing Lab Inaugurated at C-DoT, Bengaluru

This new 5G O-RAN testing lab will be beneficial for academia, startups, and enterprises engaged in the telecom industry. With this lab, new technologies will be tested and this will give a boost to the indigenous tech ecosystem of the country.

Highlights

  • Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia recently inaugurated a new 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) testing lab at the C-DoT (Centre for Development of Telematics) facility in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
  • At his visit to the Tejas Networks campus, Scindia applauded the efforts of the company in helping BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) rollout indigenous 4G. 
  • With the indigenous telecom stack technology, India is now in the list of select countries which have their own end-to-end telecom stack.

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Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia recently inaugurated a new 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) testing lab at the C-DoT (Centre for Development of Telematics) facility in Bengaluru, Karnataka. After this, the minister inaugurated the "Tejas Centre of Excellence for Wireless Communications". Tejas Networks launched a new indigenous 32T32R Massive MIMO radio capable of delivering up to 1 Gbps+ download speeds using 5G mid-band spectrum.




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This new 5G O-RAN testing lab will be beneficial for academia, startups, and enterprises engaged in the telecom industry. With this lab, new technologies will be tested and this will give a boost to the indigenous tech ecosystem of the country. A release from the ministry of communications said, "the Lab will facilitate development of a complete Indian end-end 5G ecosystem in the areas of core, access, transport, cloud, orchestration and security."

At his visit to the Tejas Networks campus, Scindia applauded the efforts of the company in helping BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) rollout indigenous 4G.

"I am truly impressed to see the wide range of world-class wireless and wireline products that Tejas has developed in India which form an integral part of all major networks in India and in several countries around the world," Scindia said.

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With the indigenous telecom stack technology, India is now in the list of select countries which have their own end-to-end telecom stack. For BSNL's 4G, radio equipments are coming from Tejas Networks while the core is being provided by C-DoT. The role of systems integrator is being handled by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

The minister also met the Bharat 6G Alliance and saw presentations from the heads of seven working groups inside the alliance. The goal of this alliance is to make India a global leader in 6G development.

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