Optimal technologies are needed to ensure the efficient rollout of private 5G networks in India and multinational technology giant Dell Technologies is confident that it can be the technology provider that the telecom service providers require to provide next-generation 5G services in the country. In an exclusive interview with ABP Live, Manish Gupta, Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies India talks about the company's partnership with the leading telcos and more ahead of the 5G spectrum auction.
"...5G will open up a new digital highway. It will do a lot of things. So one is just the providers, I mean the telecom service providers will require a lot more IT infrastructure now to provide better services using 5G networks. So we continue to partner with the leading telecom service providers in India, on compute, on storage, on networking and on the entire portfolio of services to provide them with the capability of delivering their promised services to their consumers," Gupta told ABP Live.
According to the top company executive, Dell Technologies, with its current portfolio believes that it is at the forefront of being the technology provider that all of these organisations will require with the upcoming 5G technology. "So we have the portfolio using which we believe we are at the forefront of being the technology provider that all of these organisations (telecom networks) will require with 5G," Gupta noted.
The other thing that 5G will also do is bring new use cases in enterprises, banking (BFSI), retail, and manufacturing sectors and those organisations will now require infrastructure which will be different, and which is non-traditional. "For example, edge devices will also start coming into play a lot more," the top company executive noted.
Round Rock, Texas-headquartered Dell Technologies is one of the tech giants in the race to provide next-gen telecom networks to Indian telecom operators. Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea Ltd are slated to battle to secure bandwidths for rolling out 5G services starting tomorrow (July 26) when the central government puts airwaves worth Rs 4.3 trillion on sale. The three telcos will be joined by new entrant Adani Data Networks among the final bidders in the first-ever 5G spectrum auction in India.