Reliance Jio develops own 5G solutions; ready for commercial deployment by next year: Mukesh Ambani

Ambani said that trials using Jio’s own 5G solution will be launched as soon as the 5G spectrum is available in India.

Reliance Jio has designed and developed its own complete 5G solution, which will be ready for trial, and for field deployment by next year, Mukesh Ambani, RIL chairman said.

Ambani said that trials using Jio’s own 5G solution will be launched as soon as the 5G spectrum is available in India.

ET was the first to report in March about the company’s ambition to develop its own 5G solutions. The move is perhaps a global first, analysts said, where a mobile phone company has developed in-house technology to replace third-party equipment vendors.

Having developed end-to-end 5G technology, Jio would be able to bring a wide array of use cases like security and surveillance using drones, industrial IoT and digitisation in the agriculture sector.

Jio had reportedly sought the Department of Telecommunications’ approval to conduct lab testing of 5G products that the Mukesh Ambani-led telco has developed on its own.

Jio will be undertaking the whole process of setting up the network at its premises without the involvement of any third part vendor or technology provider.

The telecom operator had earlier this year submitted separate applications for 5G field trials. It plans to trial 5G technology and work on use cases with all telecom gear vendors, including Samsung, Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei and ZTE.

Rancore technologies, earlier a subsidiary of RIL, was merged with Jio and the acquisition of Radisys further builds upon its 5G and IoT technology capability. These acquisitions accelerated Jio’s in-house development capabilities around open source technologies and NFV adoption, paving way for the development for IoT platform and applications, analysts said.