By Aashi Sehrawat
State-owned Bharat
Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on Wednesday had an agreement with
US-based packet optical and mobile routing solutions provider Coriant
to chart the path to 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) in India.
Though, the arrangement between the two companies is, however, on a
non-commercial basis at this stage but the US-headquartered Coriant expects to
take technology to BSNL subscribers after the 5G rollout commencement.
The Memorandum of
Understanding was signed between the companies for laying foundation for
innovation in network architectures and services leveraging 5G, IoT, Software
Defined Networking/ Network Functions Virtualisation (SDN/NFV), and mobile edge
computing technologies.
To this, BSNL CMD, Anupam
Shrivastava said, “We continue to focus on bringing our customers across India
the latest innovations in communications technologies that enrich their
personal and work lives,” and also added “5G represents an enormous leap
forward in capacity and throughput speeds, and we are pleased to team with our
long-term technology partner Coriant to tap into these capabilities and explore
real-world use cases for next-generation services and applications".
Meanwhile, BSNL is also in talks with
HP and L&T to procure hardware to make Internet of Things (IoT)
operational.
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