Need larger collaboration between C-DOT & defence forces: CDS

New Delhi, Jan 12 (Agency) Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan stressed the need for a better synergy between C-DOT and the three wings of Indian Armed Forces, for integration of futuristic and advanced secured communication solutions in the wake of changing landscape from network centric to data centric in modern warfare.General Chauhan was interacting with the engineers of C-DOT during his visit to the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) here on Friday, an official statement said. “Our country is in the midst of transformation, we are moving on the path of digitization, all our actions are striving towards indigenisation,” the CDS said.

“The visit to C-DOT was a revelation, I go back confident of our nations ability to protect our communication system and cyber space, he added.CEO C-DOT, Dr Rajkumar Upadhyay assured the CDS of C-DOT’s commitment towards developing state-of-the-art security solutions as per the needs and requirements of the Indian Armed Forces. Dr Upadhyay gave a detailed presentation to CDS on diverse telecom product portfolio/solutions from key telecom security areas such as security operation centre (real-time detection of malware in a network), enterprise security centre (real-time detection and mitigation of malicious threats and attacks at an enterprise level covering all end points), quantum key distribution, post quantum cryptography. Besides, other solutions such as 4G core & 4G RAN, 5G core & 5G RAN, Disaster management solution using CAP, Optical transport & access solution, switching & routing solution, etc were also discussed.