Tamil Nadu Emerges as Global Telecom Innovation Hub With Nokia’s Mega R&D Lab

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed between the Tamil Nadu Authorities and Nokia in August 2024, is now bearing fruit. The newest facility, established at SIPCOT, Siruseri, Chennai, is claimed to be the largest on the planet, specializing in mounted community expertise analysis and improvement.

Nokia has now determined to speculate ₹270crore within the first part of the plant, a rise from the beforehand introduced ₹220crore. Within the subsequent part of the plant, the corporate is more likely to make investments about ₹300crore. This is a sign that the corporate considers India and Tamil Nadu a hub for expertise.

This R&D facility has been developed with future necessities for high-speed broadband connectivity in thoughts. This R&D facility will primarily be used to develop 10G, 25G, 50G, and 100G optical community applied sciences, mounted wi-fi entry, and new mounted community broadband applied sciences. The middle will serve as a worldwide testbed the place new applied sciences can be developed and examined.

This new analysis and improvement facility has created over 200 high-end tech jobs and is anticipated to advertise superior networking, deep-tech, and engineering abilities. This can strengthen Chennai’s popularity not solely as an IT but additionally as a telecom innovation hub.

In keeping with Trade Minister TRB Raja, this funding is a results of guarantees made throughout Chief Minister MK Stalin’s go to to the US. This transfer is taken into account essential in establishing Tamil Nadu as a most well-liked vacation spot for world deep-tech and engineering firms.

Telecom consultants consider that this Nokia analysis and improvement lab might strengthen India’s function within the world telecom worth chain and in addition assist in the event of future broadband and 5G/6G spine networks.