Indian Institute of Technology and Sharp subsidiary successfully demonstrate Beyond 5G and 6G technologies

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H), Sharp Semiconductor Innovation (SSIC), and Wisig Networks (a wireless-related startup from IIT-H) announced a successful field demonstration of Beyond 5G and 6G technologies on May 15, 2025.

The demonstration, conducted on the IIT-H campus, verified the performance and interoperability of SSIC's Software Defined Radio (SDR) System-on-Chip (SoC)* and Wisig's open RAN base station. The company has achieved high-performance wireless communications comparable to today's state-of-the-art commercial 5G networks.

By 2026, this joint project aims to address advanced applications such as "Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)," "Mission Critical Push-to-Talk Communications (MC-PTT)," "Autonomous Navigation with Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Road-to-Vehicle Communications (V2X)," "Satellite-enabled NB-IoT Smart Metering," and other The company aims to support advanced applications in the following areas.

Kiran Kuchi, founder of Wisig Networks and a member of the IIT-H Department of Electrical Engineering, said, "This initiative bridges academic excellence, industrial innovation, and international cooperation, strengthening the global partnership between India and Japan in next-generation communications." Toyofumi Horikawa, technical leader of SDR SoC at SSIC, also commented, "The results of this test and experiment show the great potential of a customizable SDR SoC platform in accelerating the development of wireless technology.

SDR SoC refers to an integrated circuit dedicated to wireless communications whose functions can be flexibly changed by software, and which is tunable to meet the changing specifications of next-generation communications such as 5G, Beyond 5G, and 6G, etc. SSIC is engaged in research and development of SDR-compatible SoC chips as part of research commissioned by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), and this demonstration is one of the results. This demonstration experiment is one of the results of this research.

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