 "Sterlite Technologies is working on a plan to design and manufacture 4G and 5G radios for the global market")
Three Indian giants — Anil Agarwal-run Sterlite Technologies, Reliance Industries-controlled Radisys, and Tech Mahindra — are developing software, manufacturing, and systems integration capabilities to power the building of the next-generation of ‘virtualised’ 5G telecom networks.
The move entails moving from the current hardware-dependent networks to ones that will be software-centric with hardly any dependency on the underlying hardware. It is a significant development as it provides operators with a greater choice of vendors.
This in turn brings down their costs substantially. According to software company Mavernir, the new virtualised networks would lead to a saving of 40 per cent in
