Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of Communications and Development of North Eastern Region has inaugurated 5G open radio access network (O-RAN) testing lab at Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), Bengaluru. In addition, the “Tejas Centre of Excellence for Wireless Communications” was inaugurated at their Bengaluru headquarters.
The lab will benefit the startups, academia, and the industry to test various components of 5G O-RAN system developed by them. Further, it will facilitate development of a complete Indian end-end 5G ecosystem in the areas of core, access, transport, cloud, orchestration and security.
The minister also launched the company’s indigenously designed 32T32R Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radio capable of delivering 1+ Gbps download speeds using 5G mid-band spectrum.
Furthermore, 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 frequency range 1 (FR1) and FR2 bands for public and private 5G networks.
