The plan for IIT Madras and Department of Technology, Government of India working together on 5G technology will help tech developers live test their products.
Referring to the Finance Minister’s Budget announcement on the Department setting up a Development Centre to test 5G tech at IIT Madras, Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT Madras, told Business Line that the proposal is to build an end-to-end test bed for 5G technology located at multiple locations at some of these institutes, interconnected by a high-speed optical fibre network.
It will incorporate several new technologies developed initially, and compliant with emerging global 5G standard to which India is making significant contributions. In particular it will include Internet of Things, Millimeter Wave Communications, Massive MIMO, Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualisation, LiFi, and Network Security, he said.
It will enable technology developers across the country, particularly the start-ups to live-test their products for compliance and performance by connecting to the test bed. It is expected that several start-ups will emerge from this nation wide effort to build next-generation wireless technologies based on our own IP. IIT Madras is lead institution for executing this project, he said.
Cellular Operators Association of India website said that 5G is not only about handling existing systems more efficiently but also cater to new possibilities.