{"id":213992,"date":"2022-11-11T19:09:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=213992"},"modified":"2022-11-11T19:11:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:41:01","slug":"c-dot-emerges-as-govts-biggest-bet-for-indias-ongoing-5g-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/c-dot-emerges-as-govts-biggest-bet-for-indias-ongoing-5g-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"C-DOT emerges as govt’s biggest bet for India’s ongoing 5G rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/span><\/b>: The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cC-DOT emerges as govt’s biggest bet for India’s ongoing 5G rollout\u201d <\/span><\/b>published in <\/span>the Business Standard <\/b>on\u00a0<\/span>11th November 2022<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Syllabus:\u00a0<\/span><\/b>GS 3 \u2013 indigenization of technology and developing new technology.<\/span><\/p>\n

Relevance<\/span><\/b>: About Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT).<\/span><\/p>\n

News<\/span><\/b>: The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) has emerged as the government\u2019s biggest bet for India\u2019s ongoing 5G rollout.<\/p>\n

The Department of Space, the home ministry and other key ministries plan to leverage C-DOT’s capabilities on artificial intelligence, cyber security, optical fibre, machine-to-machine communication, and even reconnaissance.<\/p>\n

About Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT)<\/h5>\n

C-DOT was established in 1984 as an autonomous Telecom R&D centre of the Department of Telecommunications. It is a registered society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.<\/p>\n

It is also a registered public-funded research institution with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research(DSIR), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India.<\/p>\n

How did C-DOT help in India’s telecom revolution?<\/h5>\n
\"C-DOT\"
Source: Business Standard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

C-DOT research has focused on the design and production of \u2018Made in India\u2019 telecom technology suited to the Indian landscape. This helped India to a)<\/strong> Set up reliable telecom infrastructure that allowed public call offices or PCOs to mushroom nationwide, b)<\/strong> Establish digital exchanges, c)<\/strong> Create network infrastructure that supported successive waves of 2G, 3G and 4G rollouts and d)<\/strong> Recently, it designed a fully indigenous non-standalone (NSA) 5G core in record time. This NSA core has been installed at the state-owned telecom company, BSNL\u2019s premises in Chandigarh.<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>: The 5G core is the heart of a 5G mobile network. The core domain handles a wide variety of essential functions in the mobile network, such as connectivity and mobility management, authentication and authorisation, subscriber data management and policy management, among others.<\/em><\/p>\n

As of August 2022, India had 1.17 billion telecom connections, of which 98 per cent were mobile phone connections, and an estimated 65% were smartphones. This phenomenal rise over the past three decades in an economically distressed nation is credited to C-DOT.<\/p>\n

Why C-DOT is essential for India’s ongoing 5G rollout?<\/h5>\n
Development of standalone (SA) 5G core<\/h6>\n

At present C-DOT is working on the development of India\u2019s first-ever indigenously built standalone (SA) 5G core. It is a technological improvement on the NSA core.\u00a0 The NSA core technology leverages existing networking infrastructure, but the SA core modernises network infrastructure to suit the myriad needs of enterprises.<\/p>\n

Need for SA Core<\/strong>: a)<\/strong> The SA core will be necessary for achieving optimal capability in many of the classic use cases of 5G that have been showcased by both the government and industry, b)<\/strong> Only an SA Core can provide a long list of high-tech applications, ranging from robotics, advanced manufacturing and remote surgery, to advanced retail and logistics operations, requires ultra-low latency.<\/p>\n

5G radio and antennas<\/h6>\n

C-DOT is also set to launch the first domestically developed 5G radio and antennas in the next six months.<\/p>\n

5G Radio Access Network (RAN)<\/h6>\n

5G RAN<\/strong><\/a> allows the disaggregation of network equipment components, enabling a telecom company to source hardware and software from different vendors for network building.<\/p>\n

5G alliances program<\/h6>\n

Under it, C-DOT has set up 10 consortiums to deliver a complete suite of 5G products by 2024. The focus is on domestic companies from across the value chain. This helps in quickly identifying export opportunities for India\u2019s telecom tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Telecom secretary asks C-DoT to work on 6G, launches Quantum Communication Lab<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What are the present challenges faced by C-DoT?<\/h5>\n

Charges of recruiting favourites to crucial posts, and of furnishing false progress reports about C-DoT<\/p>\n

a)<\/strong> Commercialising the newly developed technologies remains the bigger challenge, b)<\/strong> Amount of customisation<\/strong>: c)<\/strong> C-DOT\u2019s longtime partner BSNL has often proved to be a problem. BSNL was unhappy with a C-DOT-Tata Group consortium currently working to provide BSNL with 5G equipment because of the higher costs, d)<\/strong> C-DOT often struggled to hire the required number of researchers. Further, researchers often have to get into administrative roles which drains their time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cC-DOT emerges as govt’s biggest bet for India’s ongoing 5G rollout\u201d published in the Business Standard on\u00a011th November 2022.\u00a0\u00a0 Syllabus:\u00a0GS 3 \u2013 indigenization of technology and developing new technology. Relevance: About Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT). News: The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) has emerged… Continue reading C-DOT emerges as govt’s biggest bet for India’s ongoing 5G rollout<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,216],"class_list":["post-213992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704931505},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}