HFCL launches 5G Lab-as-a-Service

03rd October 2022
HFCL launches 5G Lab-as-a-Service
Dr. P. D. Vaghela, Chairman, TRAI launches HFCL’s ‘5G Lab-as-a-Service at the India Mobile Congress in Delhi, October 2 2022

Focus on 5G -- and announcements at India Mobile Congress
New Delhi, October 3, 2022:  Leading telecom equipment manufacturer, HFCL has announced the launch of 5G Lab-as-a-Service to accelerate rollout of 5G solutions and services.
Telecom operators are adopting multi-vendor networks based on cloud native technologies for faster and cost-effective rollout of 5G services and for improved user experience. There is also a need to support multiple frequency bands (sub-6 GHz, millimeter wave) and various deployment scenarios to realize diverse 5G use cases for Consumer, Enterprise and Industry Verticals.
HFCL’s 5G Lab-as-a-Service provides an automated test environment for the private sector, academia and government to work together on product innovations from concept to reality. The 5G Lab provides a sandbox for rapid prototyping of 5G use cases addressing the needs of various industry segments that include manufacturing, transportation, healthcare and retail. The 5G Lab will help to create pre-integrated and pre-validated 5G solutions for Low Mobility Large Cell needed for efficient rollout of rural mobile broadband in the country.
HFCL is offering this 5G Lab-as-a-service (LaaS) to technology providers for:
-Standard compliance and interface testing (3GPP)
-Feature testing including functional, stress and performance testing
-Proof of concept, pre-deployment and field testing
-End user devices, network functions, infrastructure and applications testing
HFCL will provide access to highly skilled teams with expertise in 5G networks and devices including expertise in DevOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud native technologies that is needed for testing in 5G environments.
Says Mahendra Nahata, Managing Director at HFCL: “Integration of multi-vendor, multi-technology systems is complex, and requires validation and optimization of disaggregated components such as hardware, software, cloud and network functions for seamless deployment of 5G networks. HFCL’s state-of-art 5G Lab will enable technology providers such as telecom operators, network equipment providers, system integrators, IoT device manufacturers to analyze, integrate and validate performance and capabilities of their products and solutions in a real 5G network environment.”