Global Standardization Symposium (GSS)
(Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 19 November 2012)
The Role of National ICT SDOs for
advancing Innovation and Global
Standardization
Prof Dr Ramjee Prasad, IEEE, IET,
IETE Fellow
Founding Chairman GISFI
ramjee.prasad@gisfi.org
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About GISFI
GISFI
Global ICT
Standardisation Forum
for India
Standardization
• Indian Industry Leadership
• Functioning as TSDO, after
getting approval from DOT,
• Peer to Peer relationship with
ITU, GSC, ARIB, TTC, TIA, ETSI,
WWRF….
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Research
•Indian Academia Leadership
•Align & drive SDO
•Global Research Collaboration
•GISFI PhD Program
•I4CT
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GISFI Members
Members
• Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
• Vihaan Networks Limited (VNL)
• Tejas Networks
• CISCO
• IIOT
• Communication Multimedia And Infrastructure
(CMAI) Association of India
• NIKSUN
• NEC
• Ericsson
• Motorola
• Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN)
• HUAWEI
• Samsung
• VERISERVE
• WIP Labs
• IIT- Hyderabad
• IIIT-Allahabad
• Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge
Technologies, Hyderabad, India
• Sinhgad Technical Education Society
• HMR Institute of Technology and Management
• Birla Institute of Technology
• Individual members from Indian industries,
operators and academic institutions
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Collaborators and Supporters
• Supported by Telecommunication
Engineering Centre (TEC), DoT,
Government of India
• Supported by Telecom Equipment
Manufacturers Association of India
(TEMA)
• ITU-T Sector Member
• ETSI
• ARIB
• TTC
• TIA
• WWRF
• IEEE and OMA in process
• GSC (invited as observer in China and
Canada)
• CJK (invited as a participant in Japan)
• YRP (Yokosuka Research Park)
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GISFI WGs
Leader Technical Standard
Committee
Internet of Things (IoT)
Krishna Sirohi, I2TB-SPPL
• Chair: Balamurlidhar P, TCS
Cloud and Service-Oriented
Networks (CSeON)
• Chair: Parag Pruthi, NIKSUN
Green ICT (GICT)
• Chair: Arvind Mathur, CISCO
Future Radio Network (FRN)
• Chair: Rakesh Agrawal, VNL
Spectrum
Secuirty & Privacy
Special Interest Group (SIG)
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• Chair: Pawan Garg, Former Wireless
Advisor, GoI
• Chair: Anand R Prasad,NEC
• Chair: Debu Nayak, HUAWEI
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GISFI’s Chosen Incremental
Standardization Model
India heading to expand heavily
into rural area with state of art
infrastructure and
broadband services.
New
Global
Standards
Existing
Standards
Additional
Needs
New URBAN Requirements
Rural
Challenges
Unique System
Needs
Low Average
Revenue per User
(ARPU)
Cost effective
No Grid Power
Energy Efficient
Wide spread extent
Suitable Deployment
Architecture
Extreme
Environment
Suitable engineering
Varied Services
Best mix of all
Technologies
Only infra to deliver
basic services
Critical and high
available
Current standards and products do
not meet all Indian needs!
Need New Standards & Products!!
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GISFI status so-far: Within India
GISFI’s work plan is aligned with NTP 2012
objectives. Government to review and propose
modifications to GISFI outputs so far to ensure
consistency with Government strategy of Telecom
growth in India.
Consolidation of what we have done so far:
Created Standardization eco-system in India
GISFI has obtained wide recognition within India
Industry, operator and academia membership
Identified 7 Key Standardization Areas (SA) and established Technical Working
Groups) per SA
Identified key Indian specific requirements per SA
Gathered global standardisation intelligence per SA
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The Government direction for telecom
growth in India 1/2
India’s huge telecom equipment requirements are to be
largely met by the Domestic products. Domestic product
includes :
the product designed and developed in India and IPR in
India.
product manufactured in India but the IPRs abroad.
India does not remain only the consumer of the available
products as they offer sub-optimal solution for the India
specific problems.
New ‘Era’ of Product Innovations is visualized during in the
near term (i.e. the 2010-2020) to meet the India specific
needs, minimize Indian dependency on foreign products in
telecom and also get a share of global market in telecom.
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The Government direction for telecom
growth in India 2/2
The new products of this ‘Era’ :
based on the existing technologies and standards.
with suitable alternations to makes the new telecom infrastructure
sustainable and suitable to Indian needs.
The Indian needs includes:
cost effectiveness
energy efficiency
suitable to Indian environment
The specific needs of Indian masses in rural area.
“Self Reliance” in Telecom Equipments to address:
‘Economic’ and ‘Network Security’ issues in India.
TSDO is expected to help nation in achieving the set
objectives in NTP.
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What GISFI Does for Indian
Standardization and Economy
Defines a National Program of technology/services required
for Indian ICT needs .
Focuses on Indian requirement , find gaps of existing
standards and work towards filling those gaps, develop new
standards.
Proposes New Standards for adoption as national Standards.
Collaborates with international SDOs and carry out the
standards development program with global cooperation.
Contributes to international standard organizations
including ITU.
Creates knowledge group in India that is pooled from the
best resources from Industry, R&D Organizations and
Academic research institutions and contributes to
Government policy makers, regulator to meet national
needs.
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GISFI status so-far:
R&D and skilled manpower building
Research & Development promotion is in key agenda for GISFI
I4CT initiative of Research & Technical Education
Setting up its own institute of higher learning near Mumbai
GISFI PhD Program
Already 70 Indian PhD scholars in foreign university with
Indian professors of prominence as their Indian guides
Creating quality manpower for R&D and higher technical
education
R&D promotion & IPR Creation by Indian researchers is prime
focus
R&D Collaboration with major research institutions globally
GISFI initiative of India is already recognized in top US &
Europe Universities like Princeton, Stanford, Aalborg
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Benefits of GISFI for India
Common Platform for working together to lead
single national program.
Direction for Product Companies for meaningful
product definition.
Alignment of Academic research to support
Industry’s product development plan
Academic Research to remain ahead of TSDO
work plan to remain in guidance position.
Earn global reputation to the nation based on its
successful deliveries and working models
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Benefits of GISFI Standards
Industrial
collaboration
Coherent and
aligned ICT
standards
Joint ICT
solutions for
industrial
compatibility and
IPRs
Trade and
Regulatory
convergence
Access to global
markets
Respond to
market dynamics
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GISFI & India
GISFI has already established collaboration process with
TEC’s National Working Groups (NWG) to make national
Indian contribution to ITU
GISFI to make same contributions to other standardisation
forum such as 3GPP, Global Standards Collaboration (GSC),
and M2M
GISFI and CDOT to work together to ensure CDOT products
(and Indian IPRs) are part of global standards
GISFI has contributed in Green Telecom, Cloud Computing
and IMT-Advanced initiative of TRAI
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Standardisation, Higher Research and
Education
Standards are part of every
entrepreneurial strategy for business
growth in a modern digital economy
To ensure that technology developments
are fully beneficial for industry,
governments and consumers alike, they
need to be interoperable. Therefore,
research innovation and standardization
must go hand in hand.
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Joint ITU-GISFI Event on Bridging the
Standardization Gap: Sustainable
Rural Communicaitons
Hosted by: HUAWEI, India
Venue: The Oberoi 37-39, M.G Road; Bangalore- 560 001; India
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Bangalore, India
17 - 20 December, 2012
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