Keysight
Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps
enterprises, service providers, and governments accelerate innovation to
connect and secure the world, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras to
support Telecom Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI) in development of
India specific 5G standards. The MoU signing follows the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU)’s recognition of the 5G Radio Interface
Technology (RIT) introduced by TSDSI as a candidate 5G standard.
To encourage Indian startups and the telecom
industry to take an early lead in 5G, the Department of Telecommunications
(DoT) is funding a large-scale project called ‘5G Testbed’. The goal of the
project is to build a test bed that closely resembles a real-world 5G
deployment. This project will create a 5G prototype and testing platform that
will be developed under the guidance of more than 50 researchers and engineers
based in the IIT Madras campus using equipment developed by Keysight
Technologies. Keysight is currently building on the functionality required for
testing of new radio interface standards developed at IIT Madras.
Aligned with the prime minister’s vision of Atmanirbhar Barat, TSDSI’s 5G
RIT improves upon the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) RIT by providing
enhanced performance for ITU’s Low Mobility Large Cell (LMLC) rural use case.
Designed to make 5G technology work well in rural areas with low-speed mobility
and large cells of up to 6 km radius, this indigenous technology primarily
seeks to bridge the digital divide by enabling affordable 5G broadband,
leveraging India’s rural optical fiber network BharatNet.
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