Correct Answer : Jyotiraditya M. Scindia
Minister of Communications, Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia visited (26th Sep 2024) Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) Bengaluru Campus and inaugurated 5G O-RAN testing lab. He later inaugurated the “Tejas Centre of Excellence for Wireless Communications” at their Bengaluru Headquarters.
He also launched the company’s indigenously designed 32T32R Massive MIMO radio capable of delivering 1+ Gbps download speeds using 5G mid-band spectrum.
Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurated 5G O-RAN testing lab that will benefit the Startups, Academia and the industry to test various components of 5G open RAN system developed by them. He also witnessed a 5G call using open RAN based 5G radio developed by C-DOT in Bengaluru Campus. The Lab will facilitate development of a complete Indian end-end 5G ecosystem in the areas of core, access, transport, cloud, orchestration and security.
The Minister started the visit by planting a tree in the campus of C-DOT. He visited 4G, 5G and Server labs at C-DOT Bengaluru and lauded the efforts of C-DOT’s scientists in developing low-cost novel indigenous telecom products and solutions. He encouraged the young engineers to continue their zeal and passion to innovate for realising the vision of Hon’ble Prime Minister towards "Atmanirbhar Bharat" and progressing to “Viksit Bharat 2047”.
During his visit, Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia also had a fruitful and motivating interaction with many prominent Bengaluru-based startups and domestic industry partners who are actively engaged in collaborative development of cutting-edge indigenous technologies and solutions, like, Astrome, Astromeda Space, Chipspirit Technologies, Cimware, DeepVisionTech.AI, Elena Geo systems, Fasal Agri Tech, Lekha Wireless, LivNsense Technologies, Tejocell, Nimble Vision, Niral Networks, Niqo Robotics, OptimusLogic, QPIAI, Resonous, Signaltron, SuperQ Technologies, Vacus Tech, Xten Networks, Xoviam Aerospace, etc. Startups demonstrated their innovations and products to the Minister.
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 FR1 and FR2 bands for public & private 5G networks. He assured full policy support for facilitating research and innovation in Bengaluru, the ‘Silicon Valley’ of India..
Source : PIB