C-DOT exhibits technologies at manufacturers' conference

The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), has organized Manufacturers' Conference in an effort to exhibit the R&D capabilities across different product portfolio.

The conference was inaugurated by Sam Pitroda, advisor to the PM on public information infrastructure and innovations.

The centre started from the single mission of providing a dial tone, and has grown over the last 26 years, to the level of a national centre for Research and Development in communication technology in many areas including- satellite communications, IN, ATM, DWDM, NMS, wireless broadband, GPON, NGN, and mobile cellular systems.

''This conference is aimed at reminding the telecom fraternity that C-DOT has the competencies and the technologies to give greater support to indigenous R&D and manufacturing in the telecom sector. C-DOT has been holding the Manufacturers’ Conferences regularly in the past as a forum to announce new products and discuss issues of mutual interest,'' said VVR Sastry, executive director, C-DOT.

The centre has significantly contributed in the Indian telecom network digitization, bridging the digital divide between urban and rural, establishing strong telecom manufacturing infrastructure and employment generation.

It also develops standards based contemporary telecom technologies, suited to Indian needs, and transfers them to the industry via a transfer of technology (ToT) agreement.

The ToT package of C-DOT enables the technology recipient to go into production quickly. C-DOT effectively hand holds everything right from setting up of manufacturing infrastructure, to ironing out manufacturing problems, finding reliable vendors or solving problems reported from field.

The Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) is expected to bring broadband services to rural India and new infrastructure like multi-dwelling units, campuses, large networks and public utility buildings. While the Shared GSM Roaming Access Network (SG-RAN) product, based on sharing of active GSM infrastructure, will bring affordable mobile telephony to the rural market.

C-DOT's umbrella Network Management System (NMS) solutions have made it possible to manage networks with elements from multiple vendors and the Data Clearing House (CLH) solution of the centre is commercially deployed for reconciling the roaming records between BSNL and MTNL.

The centre has already signed ToT Agreements for GPON with Indian Telephone Industries (ITI), Bharat Electronics (BEL), VMC Systems, United Telecoms (UTL), Sai InfoSystem (India), and SM Creative Electronics for indigenous manufacturing.

Along with this ToT has also been signed with Tejas Networks, for customized development.

The conference witnessed the presence of Ajay Shankar, secretary, NMCC; Prof SV Raghavan, scientific secretary, office of principal scientific advisor (PSA); SR Rao, additional secretary, Department of Telecommunications; RK Upadhyay, CMD, BSNL; and Kuldip Singh, director, MTNL.