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Complete Telecom Products “Made in India”?

A Knowledgefaber Article – Part 1 of the Series

[When India is being seen as a good telecom software product development destination, it is less known for complete telecom products that are a result of hardware, middleware and software. Where are we right now? and how should we participate in the global telecom opportunity if we were to make India a true ”innovation” destination] Authors – Gaurav Vasu and Amit Goel

29/09/2009

Sep. 09

Complete Telecom Products Made in India?

In the last few years market place is abuzz about India as an emerging destination for R&D due to availability of quality talent, people with knowledge of product development process moving back to India, cost arbitrage, MNC R&D centers and several other advantages. While this holds true for “offshored R&D functions” and for “software products” to a great extent but not beyond that. Not so much in the non-software domains and certainly not by the Indian companies in the non-software areas such as complete products. While there is some amount of work happening on the non-software front but it is limited to a few players and/or few areas if at all. For any country to be termed as a R&D hub it needs to have companies working on “complete product” development with several homegrown product companies/technologies. Add to it an R&D ecosystem that needs to be resourceful and agile. India is at par with the world when it comes to emerging technologies and products development in the “software” field. The ecosystem for Indian software product companies & start ups has evolved significantly during this decade. However telecom industry in India, even though with one of the largest and fastest growing subscriber base, is far behind in terms of development of the core products (including hardware) around wireless/wireline technologies or other products compared to peers like China which has several homegrown technologies (such as TD-SCDMA) and product...