The C-DOT is building a testbed in Delhi and is advising the Indian government on 5G trials. The University of Bristol will share its expertise and architecture for 5G test bed in the country.
“Our collaboration with the C-DoT is to link up on 5G. Having launched a project earlier, it is clear that the UK has an advantage in terms of not just delivering commercial 5G systems, but delivering testbeds,” Dimitra Simeonidou, Director of Smart Internet Lab, University of Bristol, told ET in a recent interaction.
“We are transferring some of our experience on putting a test bed together and the open source orchestration software to India,” she said, adding that the university has followed an open source approach both for SDN control and orchestration.
Under the collaboration, C-DOT has provided its optical equipment to the university for their 5G test beds in the UK.
The university’s Smart Internet Lab is the only institute to receive funding from the central UK government to deliver a city testbed around 5G. “We have been the only place in Europe which delivered a 5G test bed in Bristol. We have opened it up for usage and innovation for the city,” she added.
The professor said that the collaboration with C-DOT will now intensify more as the 5G technology gains traction across the globe.
The Indian government had previously approved the financial grant for a project to set up an indigenous 5G test bed by Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc). One such testbed is being set up by the IIT-Chennai, which would be ready by 2019-end and the final version of it would be operational by 2021.
In addition, IIT-Delhi has also set up a 5G test bed in collaboration with Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson<\/a> to identify new use cases, and to trial the technology.
Simeonidou said that 5G will help provide sustained broadband connectivity in the country, besides enabling use cases like public safety and other critical services.
“Indian market is different from the UK. For sustained broadband connectivity at no loss of connection, 5G is very important especially in a country like India where fiber penetration is very low and is a bigger challenge,” she said, adding that the new technology will complement existing 4G<\/a> networks.
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