C-DOT and C-DAC sign MOU for cooperation in diverse areas of Telecom and ICT

Centre for Development of Telematics(c-dot), the R&D centre of the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing(c-dac), an autonomous Scientific Society of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the recently held Semiconindia 2022 event at Bangalore. The MOU is aimed to work together in the diverse areas of Telecom and ICT to boost indigenous technological design and development.

The MOU signing ceremony was attended by Daniel Jebaraj, Director, C-DOT and E. Magesh, Director General, C-DAC in the august presence of Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology and Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and senior officers from both the organizations.

The signing of MOU will help both the organizations leverage each other’s strength in their respective domains.

Both C-DOT and C-DAC have agreed to collaborate and work jointly, in identification and development of activities in the areas of 4G/5G, Broadband, IOT/M2M, packet core, Computing etc.

Specific Project Agreements will be signed as and when required to enumerate the specific roles and responsibilities.

On this occasion, Dr Rajkumar Upadhyay, Executive Director, C-DOT said that C-DOT is keen on aligning its indigenous R&D endeavours with that of C-DAC for meeting the overreaching objectives of national development. Both C-DOT and C-DAC are leaders in their respective areas and this MOU will bring great synergy between the two organizations and leverage each other’s strengths to develop world class technologies.

E. Magesh, Director General, C-DAC, remarked that the partnership between C-DOT and CDAC to carry out R&D in advanced technology areas will help meet the telecom and ICT requirements of the country. All this will strengthen the national networks, keep them secure, boost seamless connectivity and provide advanced applications which will bolster the foundation of “Atmanirbhar Bharat”. C-DOT has indigenously developed 4G/LTE solutions and working on 5G and we hope to work with C-DOT to carry out advanced research in this area along with other areas mutually identified by both C-DOT and C-DAC.