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Ericsson Launches India's First 5G Innovation Lab at IIT-Delhi

Ericsson Launches India's First 5G Innovation Lab at IIT-Delhi Image Credit: Ericsson

Ericsson, on Tuesday announced that it has established a Centre of Excellence (CoE) and Innovation Lab for 5G in the country at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.

This first -of-its-kind 5G innovation Lab, the new center is established to fast-track 5G deployments in the country by bringing together telecom ecosystems, academia, industry and start-ups.

Ericsson claims that it conducted India’s first 5G over the air beam tracking demonstration on 3.5GHz spectrum using a pre-commercial end-to-end system including 5G-NR, VRAN and VCORE. The demonstration includes 3GPP 5G NR Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna technology with adaptive beamforming and beam tracking techniques to deliver robust and sustained mobile broadband communications. By beam steering, a highly-focused beam, a stronger radio signal with higher data throughput is delivered over a greater distance using less energy. The results are spectral efficiency enhancement and gains for capacity, cell edge throughput and mean user throughput.

Birje Ekholm, President and CEO, Ericsson
Ericsson is leading 5G standardization globally. The 5G Center of Excellence and Innovation Lab aims to stimulate the 5G ecosystem in India. We would like to unleash the creativity and innovation of the Indian industry, academia and entrepreneurs to fully leverage and make 5G a reality in India.

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