Wipro, HFCL team up for 5G product development


Wipro, HFCL team up for 5G product development
Wipro and telecom equipment maker HFCL have entered into a partnership to develop a variety of 5G transport products such as cell site router and centrailized and distributed unit aggregation routers.
Wipro will co-develop equipment with its expertise in product engineering, transport network technologies and 5G. Wipro will leverage Tarang Labs, its product compliance and certification labs in Bangalore, for hardware integration, validation and pre-certification, according to an exchange filing.
HFCL is currently investing in a portfolio of 5G products for the radio access network and transport. The transport network of communication service providers needs modernization due to much higher bandwidth per 5G cell site and new services with stringent latency requirements like drones, autonomous vehicles and robotics-based precision manufacturing. HFCL is developing 5G transport products to help communication service providers transform their transport network, the exchange filing said.
“We are proud to partner with HFCL in their journey to invent the next generation of 5G products for network service providers in India and globally. We will leverage our strong experience in network equipment engineering, expertise in 5G/LTE and very-large-scale integration system design, engineering design services and embedded software. We are confident that this collaboration will ensure an accelerated go-to-market for HFCL,” said Satya Easwaran, country head, India, Wipro.
HFCL’s 5G Transport products are based on merchant silicon, network dis-aggregated architecture, and on open standards like Telecom Infra Project and Open Compute Project. Wipro has developed multiple cell site routers for CSPs globally, and is also active in the Telecom Infra Project community.