Union Minister for Communications and DONER, Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurates 5G Open RAN testing Lab at CDoT, Bangalore

By R Anil Kumar

• Jyotiraditya Scindia also inaugurated Wireless Center of Excellence at Tejas Networks

• Encourages young engineers to continue their zeal and passion to innovate for realizing the vision of “Atmanirbhar Bharat” towards achieving “Viksit Bharat 2047”

Visit to Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT)

Bengaluru, September 26. Minister of Communications, Jyotiraditya M. Scindiavisited Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) Bengaluru Campus and inaugurated 5G O-RAN testing lab.

He later inaugurated the “Tejas Centre of Excellence for Wireless Communications” at their Bengaluru Headquarters, on September 26.

Scindia also launched the company’s indigenously designed 32T32R Massive MIMO radio capable of delivering 1+ Gbps download speeds using 5G mid-band spectrum.

Mr. Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurated 5G O-RAN testing lab that will benefit the Startups, Academia and the industry to test various components of 5G open RAN system developed by them. He also witnessed a 5G call using open RAN based 5G radio developed by C-DOT in Bengaluru Campus.

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

The Minister started the visit by planting a sapling in the campus of C-DOT. He visited 4G, 5G and Server labs at C-DOT Bengaluru and lauded the efforts of C-DOT’s scientists in developing low-cost novel indigenous telecom products and solutions.

He encouraged the young engineers to continue their zeal and passion to innovate for realising the vision of Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi, towards ”Atmanirbhar Bharat” and progressing to ”Viksit Bharat 2047”.

During his visit, Jyotiraditya Scindia also had a fruitful and motivating interaction with many prominent Bengaluru-based startups and domestic industry partners who are actively engaged in collaborative development of cutting-edge indigenous technologies and solutions, like, Astrome, Astromeda Space, Chipspirit Technologies, Cimware, DeepVisionTech.AI, Elena Geo systems, FasalAgri Tech, Lekha Wireless, LivNsense Technologies, Tejocell, Nimble Vision, Niral Networks, Niqo Robotics, OptimusLogic, QPIAI, Resonous, Signaltron, SuperQ Technologies, Vacus Tech, Xten Networks, Xoviam Aerospace, etc.

Startups demonstrated their innovations and products to the Minister.

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 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.

While at the Tejas campus, the Minister congratulated the company and said, “it is a demonstration that Indian companies can design and manufacture high-quality, cutting-edge products and successfully compete against the best global players in the telecom sector”.

“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,” he added.

Scindia also commended the company for its contribution to the ongoing rollout of BSNL’s pan-India 4G/5G network by supplying and installing their indigenous RAN (Radio Access Network) equipment.

The ”Tejas Center of Excellence for Wireless Communications” at Tejas Networks 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 modelling 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, Massive MIMO, Terahertz Communications, Sub-band Full Duplex among others.