Wipro and HFCL to co-engineer 5G transport products

Wipro has entered into a 5G product development partnership with Indian telecom company HFCL Limited to engineer a range of 5G transport products.

The partners will work together to develop products such as cell site router, centralized unit (CU) aggregation router, and distributed unit (DU) aggregation router.

Wipro will provide the partnership with its expertise in product engineering, transport network technologies, as well as 5G.

According to the Indian IT giant, the 5G transport offering is aimed at empowering enterprises to achieve their 5G-enabled vision and help them bring high-quality 5G solutions quicker to market.

Wipro will tap its product compliance and certification labs — Tarang Labs in Bangalore for integration of the hardware along with their validation and pre-certification.

Wipro and HFCL to co-engineer 5G transport products. Photo courtesy of Nuttyprofessor2016/Wikipedia.org.

Mahendra Nahata — Managing Director of HFCL said: “Wipro is a key partner for HFCL because of its world-class engineering and in-depth experience on hardware design, embedded software and its in-house certification and compliance labs (Tarang).

“HFCL’s comprehensive portfolio of 5G transport products (which are under development), that include Cell Site Router, DU Aggregation Router and CU Aggregation Router, will enable CSPs to modernize their backhaul networks and make them ready for 5G services.

“These 5G transport products, based on open standards, will help operators realize the benefits of network disaggregation, and are in the true spirit of ‘Make in India‘ for the world.”

Presently, HFCL is investing in a selection of 5G products for the radio access network (RAN) and transport.

The transport network of communication service providers (CSPs) requires modernization because of much larger bandwidth per 5G cell site, ethernet and IP based transport, densification of cell sites in 5G, and new services with strict latency needs such as drones, robotics-based precision manufacturing, and autonomous vehicles.

HFCL is building 5G transport products for the fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul to help CSPs in transforming their transport network.

Satya Easwaran — Wipro India Country Head 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 VLSI (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.”

Last month, Wipro reported a 4% increase year-over-year for its net income to INR 30.9 billion for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2022. Read here for Wipro Q4 FY2022 results.