The Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunications (IRISET) under the Ministry of Railways and the IIT Madras have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish the India 5G testbed.
This testbed will be located at IRISET in Secunderabad to test 5G use or the Indian Railways.
The central objective of the MoU between IRISET and IIT-Madras is to expedite the indigenization drive within the Indian Railways, specifically in the domain of communications.