Mumbai, March 29: Engineering major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Tuesday said it has partnered with telecom operator Vodafone Idea to establish a use case of private LTE enterprise network in India. L&T Smart World & Communication (SWC), the smart world and communication business of L&T Construction, along with Vi will establish a private LTE enterprise network with future ready 5G network infrastructure, the telecom operator said in a statement here.
Both the companies will also trial 5G use cases in the areas of public safety, smart and connected health as part of the ongoing 5G trials on government allocated 5G spectrum. “Both the companies have collaborated to test and validate 5G use cases built on IoT, video AI technologies leveraging L&T’s smart city platform,” it said. “We believe private enterprise networks are here to stay, proliferate and help transform businesses on the Industry 4.0 growth path. We are excited about this technology and promise it holds and along with our partners Vodafone Idea are betting big in digitizing Indian enterprises,” said J D Patil, Senior Executive Vice President, Defence & Smart Technologies, L&T.
These trials allow Vi and its partners to develop India specific private LTE use cases with efficient utilization of spectrum, without impacting the society and progressing towards the Government’s dream of a ‘Digital India’, the company said. Commenting on the development, Arvind Nevatia, Chief Enterprise Business Officer, Vodafone Idea, said this partnership will enable to build a complete solution for private LTE with cutting-edge applications on future ready 5G network infrastructure, based on technology expertise from Nokia. “This collaboration will demonstrate our strength and capabilities to deliver solutions for the enterprises of tomorrow driving faster adoption of industry 4.0 in India. We are confident that this pilot will revolutionize and transform L&T’s A M Naik Heavy Engineering Complex manufacturing facility, unlocking new potential for future scalability,” he added. L&T Smart World offers pre-packaged digital solutions for Private 5G starting from network designing and rollout, cyber security and virtualized networks (ORAN).
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