C-DoT generates ₹1,000 crore revenue this fiscal year: Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani
Centre for Development of Telematics
(
C-DoT
) has generated a revenue of ₹1,000 crore to date in the fiscal year 2025-26, indicating the competitiveness of its products, Minister of State for Communications
Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani
said on Thursday.
'Even though you are given ₹400 crores as the budget this year (FY26), you are able to generate close to ₹1,000 crores total. This is a testament that your products are remarkable,' Pemmasani said, addressing engineers of the state-run
telecom research and development
(R&D) firm.
The minister said that countries are expressing interest in the C-DoT homegrown 4G Core, and added that the company's security products are relevant for global enterprises.
'Hopefully, we can sell these products in international markets. Even the security products and everything you have been developing here have a huge opportunity for outside enterprises. We should be able to get more private partnerships and sell to them,' Pemmasani said.
He affirmed that the government is committed to supporting C-DoT, and urged the company's engineers to leverage data and other resources to innovate products, such as in the security domain.
Pemmasani said the Central government will coordinate with C-DoT to deploy its solutions, including 4G Core and 5G Core, in commercial environments. 'How can we, instead of just staying in the lab, deploy them and test them against (solutions) of other private organisations?'.
At the event, C-DoT launched the
Saksham-3000
series of 400G data center switch-cum-router, with speeds of up to 25.6Tbps, to enable data center operators to cater to demand for fifth-generation (5G)-led data consumption and network virtualisation, among others.
READ MORE | Cost-effective tariff, free 5G, service quality to drive BSNL 4G customers: Pemmasani
C-DoT is among a handful of telecom firms globally, including Chinese Huawei and ZTE, Korean Samsung, and European vendors
Ericsson
and
Nokia
, that have their own stack.
Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-led consortium that includes Tejas Networks and C-DoT, is setting up data centres and a commercial 4G network for state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (
BSNL
), with a potential 5G upgrade, following a proof-of-concept (PoC).
'BSNL has placed an order for an additional 19,000 sites to densify its 4G footprint, with seamless software upgrade capability to 5G. This follows the successful commissioning of around 90,000 4G sites,' Robert Ravi, chairman and managing director, BSNL, told
ETTelecom
recently.
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