On the occasion of the silver Jubilee event of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched a 5G Test Bed on May 17.
- The Prime Minister said this indigenous 5G testbed in the telecom sector is an important step in India’s self-reliance.
- He added that said 5G Technology is a huge opportunity for startups to grow and test their products. He said, it is estimated that 5G telecom will contribute 450 billion dollar in Indian economy in the next one and half-decade.
- The Prime Minister also said 5G will help in improving governance, ease of living and ease of doing business in the country.
More about 5G testbed
- The 5G testbed has been developed as a multi-institute collaborative project by eight institutes led by IIT Madras.
- The testbed has been set up at a cost of around ₹220 crore. In the absence of a 5G testbed, startups and other industry players were required to go abroad to test and validate their products for installation in a 5G network.
- The other institutes that participated in the project are IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur, IISc Bangalore, Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering & Research (SAMEER) and Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT).
- The testbed facility will be available at 5 different locations.
6G Rollout
- India is targeting the rollout of a 6G telecom network, which will provide ultra-high-speed internet connectivity, by the end of the decade, the Prime Minister said.
5G Vs 6G
- 5G and 6G use wireless spectrum of higher range for data transmission faster than 4G, 3G, and 2G networks.
- 5G is allocated for low band and high band frequencies – sub-6 GHz (Gigahertz) and above 24.25 GHz respectively.
- 6G will be operative at the frequency range 95 GHz to 3 THz (Terahertz).
- Operating at terahertz frequency bands, 6G will deliver a peak data rate of 1,000 gigabits/s having air latency less than 100 microseconds.
- 6G speed is expected to be 100 times faster than 5G with enhanced reliability and wider network coverage.
- Low latency : The time taken by a packet of information transmitted over a frequency is known as latency. 4G networks had a latency of about 50 milliseconds (ms) whereas 5G networks had ten times lower latency than 4G i.e., 5ms. With 6G internet, latency will slip down to range 1millisecond to 1microsecond, lowering latency to five times than that of fifth-generation network making massive data transmissions possible in less than a second.
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