DoT and C-DOT Sign Agreement to Establish End-to-End Optical Network Testbed for Indigenous Optical Communication Technologies

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) have signed a five-year agreement to establish an End-to-End Optical Network Test Bed at the C-DOT campus in New Delhi. Funded by DoT, the project aims to bridge the gap between lab-stage innovation and market readiness by providing a real-world testing, validation, and commercialization environment for indigenous optical communication technologies developed by Indian startups and industry players. Structured into a setup phase (years 1–2) and an operations and maintenance phase (years 3–5), the testbed will also serve as a shared national resource for skill development and capacity building in advanced optical networking and Quantum Security technologies.