Reliance Jio's homegrown 5G stack demonstrates the strengths of "design in India" and "make in India," Shyam P Mardikar, President and Group Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Mobility at Reliance Jio Infocomm, said on Friday. He delivered a technology address at the first edition of the ETTelecom Industries Innovation Summit 2024, according to an ET report.
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Rapid Network Expansion and User Adoption
Mardikar emphasised the telecom operator's achievements in developing a proprietary 5G stack, which includes its own intellectual property in 5G radios, AI/ML platforms, cloud orchestration, and cloud infrastructure deployment, as well as cloud-native probing solutions for radio and core networks.
"Like Bell Labs, we are trying to cultivate capabilities at Jio Labs. In fact, the concepts of 'design in India,' 'create in India,' 'make in India,' and 'deliver in India' are best exemplified by this (Jio 5G stack)," the report quoted the CTO as saying.
Its in-house subscription engine and marketplace products are expected to enable a software-as-a-service (SaaS) consumption model, according to a presentation made at the event, the report said.
Mardikar revealed that Jio has rapidly expanded its 5G network to over 100 million unique users in 12 months by combining digital twin technology with AI and ML. The network now covers nearly 90 percent of the Indian population, building on Jio's earlier success in rolling out 4G.
"In just 12 months (since October 2022), because of this digital twin and digital design concept, we were able to light up a million 5G cells, covering nearly 90 percent of the Indian population," Mardikar said, according to the report.
"Almost 10 percent of every bit and byte consumed on the planet is consumed on our network, and it is processed through the core network, or the stack that we have built," Mardikar added.
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Data Consumption on Jio's 5G Network
The report further quoted the CTO stating that there has been a surge in blended data consumption on Jio's latest-generation wireless networks compared to 4G.
He added that Jio's nearly 500 million customers consume nearly 400 million gigabytes (GB) of data daily. "This would not have happened if we had not been able to unleash the full potential of 5G in achieving our goals."
