Jyotiraditya M Scindia, Union Minister of Communications and Development of North Eastern Region, has inaugurated 5G Lab developed by Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) at Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), at a function held in Gauhati University.
‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ vision of Government of India has led to the development of indigenous 4G/5G stack that is being rolled out in Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) network. This achievement sets a strong foundation to venture into new use cases of 5G and development of 6G technology.
There are thousands of engineering colleges in the country that aspire to be current with new technologies like 5G and 6G. In order to develop desired competencies and innovative use cases for 5G and to enable acceleration of 6G research and development (R&D) and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) generation, a cost effective 5G test lab set up is required at universities and engineering colleges. A need was felt to develop a cost effective 5G test bed solution that is affordable for wider adoption by engineering colleges. C-DOT has realised low cost 5G solution which is suitable for deployment in universities and engineering colleges to serve as 5G Testbed set up.