Indian startup Amantya Technologies has won funding under the Telecom Technology Development Fund (TTDF) scheme of the Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN) to develop a Made in India 5G standalone (SA) core for public and enterprise deployments.
Digital Bharat Nidhi is a fund that provides affordable telecom services to underserved remote and rural areas of India. It was established by the Telecommunications Act of 2023 and replaced the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF).
According to the Ministry of Communications, Amantya will build on its existing enterprise-grade 5G SA core to deliver a carrier-grade solution compliant with the latest 3GPP standards.
Founded in 2018, Amantya is a product engineering and systems integration company with sales and engineering centres in the US and India. Next-generation technologies like 5G, IoT, embedded and hardware engineering, AI ML, edge and cloud form its core areas of expertise.
As India’s Economic Times explains, the company will develop a domestic 5G SA core with upgraded nodes. The 5G SA core will support advanced features such as network slicing, quality of service (QoS), voice over new radio (VoNR), ultra-reliable low latency communication (uRLLC), and massive machine type communication (mMTC), while enabling seamless integration with existing 4G and 5G networks.
The solution will incorporate functionalities such as geo-redundancy, high availability, traffic monitoring and automatic scaling. It will also provide northbound interfaces for third-party OSS/BSS and billing systems and ensure deployment on general-purpose hardware or cloud infrastructure.
In addition the solution will also be cloud-agnostic, supporting deployment on platforms such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, and OpenShift, making it flexible for use on carrier, private, or on-premises clouds.
