5 G Macro radio units were launched today at the India Mobile Congress 2022, in the home-grown HFCL Limited, a telecom equipment manufacturer and technology provider. The first product in the family 5 G HFCL, the 5 G 8 T 8 R macro radio units RU, has been designed and developed by the company's indigenous R&D team to address India and global markets. It is a next-generation RU that has a compact form factor. HFCL claims that this new RU provides energy efficiency, supports digital beamforming and zero-touch provisioning, and will be a key component in rolling out 5 G networks.
Mahendra Nahata, MD, HFCL told Business Today that every tower will require six such radio units, because of the relevance of radio units. For the 5 G rollout in Delhi, the city will need 10,000 towers and six radio units will be mounted on each tower. In total, Delhi would require 60,000 radio units by a single operator, which is a big opportunity.
HFCL is investing around 400 crore in the production of telecom equipment. Nahata said that the company hasn't decided on the number of units it plans to manufacture while the radio units will be manufactured in Delhi NCR. Nahata sees it as a big opportunity, as other than providing radio units to the Indian telecom operators, the company plans to export it to the world.
HFCL has launched the world's first Open source Wi-Fi 7 Access Points under its IO product line, in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies. HFCL s Wi-Fi 7 APs will support peak data rates of over 10 Gbps and will offer latency under 2 ms compared to 5 Gbps and 10 ms of current Wi-fi 6 products. Wi-Fi 7 uses faster connections with 320 MHz and 4 kQAM, multiple connections with multi link operation and adaptive connections for adaptive interference puncturing to provide a better user experience while offering better power efficiency.