NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel and Chinese telecom gear maker Huawei said that they have successfully conducted India’s first 5G network trial under a test set up at the telco's Network Experience Centre in Manesar (Gurgaon).
Abhay Savargaonkar, Director – Networks, Bharti Airtel said that the test is small but a very significant step in our journey towards 5G. "The promise of 5G is endless, it will be a game changer and, it will change the way we live, work and engage. We’re moving quickly to begin collaboration towards 5G interoperability and development testing (IODT) based on the 3GPP R15 standards. We look forward to working closely with our partners for developing a robust 5G ecosystem in India," he added.
5G R15 is focusing on eMBB, laying the key building blocks to support services like virtual reality, ultra high definition immersive video and diversified long tail of future use cases and innovations. 3GPP completed the first drop of 5G New Radio (NR) standards in December 2017.
In a recent interaction with ET, Savargaonkar had said that the telecom operator was well positioned to usher in the 5G space in the coming years in partnership with its ecosystem of partners, He said that efforts on the 5G front will open the doors for Internet of Things, Artifical Intelligence, and Virtual Reality.
During the test trial, a user throughput of more than 3 Gbps was achieved using the setup. This is the highest measured throughput for a mobile network in 3.5 GHz band with 100MHz bandwidth and end-to-end network latency of approximately 1 msec. The setup included 5G RAN operating on 3.5 GHz band, 5G Core and 50GE Network Slicing router.
"We have been focusing on developing 5G ecosystem and use cases, and the show with Bharti Airtel impressively demonstrates the performance capability of 5G in 3.5 GHz band. We shall also continue to work with Vertical Industry players to develop wider ecosystem use cases beyond enhanced mobile broadband," Emmanuel Coelho Alves, Director, Wireless Marketing, Huawei HQ, said in a statement.
India plans to roll out 5G services for consumers by 2020 and to achieve that objective, the government had in September this year set up a high-level forum that will evaluate and approve roadmaps and action plans to bring in the latest technology in the country. Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan recently said that the telecom department was expecting s to finalise a roadmap for 5G services by June this year.
Bharti Airtel lately intensified its efforts on the 5G front, and to fully prepare itself for the newer technology. It has far joined hands with gear makers like Ericsson and Nokia. The Sunil Mittal’s efforts around 5G technology isn’t limited to its collaboration with telecom gear vendor. It recently entered into a strategic alliance with SK Telecom to leverage the Korean telco’s expertise to build the advanced telecom network and together work in developing 5G technology, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Software-defined Networking (SDN) and Internet of Things.
Abhay Savargaonkar, Director – Networks, Bharti Airtel said that the test is small but a very significant step in our journey towards 5G. "The promise of 5G is endless, it will be a game changer and, it will change the way we live, work and engage. We’re moving quickly to begin collaboration towards 5G interoperability and development testing (IODT) based on the 3GPP R15 standards. We look forward to working closely with our partners for developing a robust 5G ecosystem in India," he added.
5G R15 is focusing on eMBB, laying the key building blocks to support services like virtual reality, ultra high definition immersive video and diversified long tail of future use cases and innovations. 3GPP completed the first drop of 5G New Radio (NR) standards in December 2017.
In a recent interaction with ET, Savargaonkar had said that the telecom operator was well positioned to usher in the 5G space in the coming years in partnership with its ecosystem of partners, He said that efforts on the 5G front will open the doors for Internet of Things, Artifical Intelligence, and Virtual Reality.
During the test trial, a user throughput of more than 3 Gbps was achieved using the setup. This is the highest measured throughput for a mobile network in 3.5 GHz band with 100MHz bandwidth and end-to-end network latency of approximately 1 msec. The setup included 5G RAN operating on 3.5 GHz band, 5G Core and 50GE Network Slicing router.
"We have been focusing on developing 5G ecosystem and use cases, and the show with Bharti Airtel impressively demonstrates the performance capability of 5G in 3.5 GHz band. We shall also continue to work with Vertical Industry players to develop wider ecosystem use cases beyond enhanced mobile broadband," Emmanuel Coelho Alves, Director, Wireless Marketing, Huawei HQ, said in a statement.
India plans to roll out 5G services for consumers by 2020 and to achieve that objective, the government had in September this year set up a high-level forum that will evaluate and approve roadmaps and action plans to bring in the latest technology in the country. Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan recently said that the telecom department was expecting s to finalise a roadmap for 5G services by June this year.
Bharti Airtel lately intensified its efforts on the 5G front, and to fully prepare itself for the newer technology. It has far joined hands with gear makers like Ericsson and Nokia. The Sunil Mittal’s efforts around 5G technology isn’t limited to its collaboration with telecom gear vendor. It recently entered into a strategic alliance with SK Telecom to leverage the Korean telco’s expertise to build the advanced telecom network and together work in developing 5G technology, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Software-defined Networking (SDN) and Internet of Things.
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