Air Force Chief Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari yesterday visited Centre for Development of Telematics C-DOT Delhi Campus. The C-DOT is the premier Telecom Research and Development centre of the Department of Telecommunications. It is actively working on developing indigenous, secured telecom solutions, for critical infrastructure such as defence communications and Cyber Security.
CEO of C-DOT Dr Rajkumar Upadhyay gave a detailed presentation on diverse telecom product portfolios or solutions and key telecom security solutions such as security operation centre for real-time detection of malware in a network, enterprise security centre for real-time detection and mitigation of malicious threats and attacks at an enterprise level covering all end points, Quantum key distribution and Post Quantum Cryptography to the visiting dignitary. Other solutions such as 4G core and 4G RAN, 5G core and 5G RAN, disaster management solutions using CAP, optical transport and access solutions, and switching and routing solutions were also discussed. It was followed by a live demonstration of solutions during the visit highlighting their functional aspects.
The Air Force Chief interacted with senior officials of C-DOT and stressed on the need for better synergy between C-DOT and the Air Force for integration of futuristic and advanced secured communication solutions in the wake of changing landscape from network-centric to data centric in modern warfare. Dr. Upadhyay assured the Air Chief of C-DOT’s commitment towards developing state-of-the-art security solutions as per the needs and requirements of Air Force.
