Capgemini Reinforces its Collaboration with Ericsson at its 5G Lab

Capgemini announced that it has deployed the 5G SA Industry Connect solution from Ericsson at its 5G Lab in Mumbai.

Capgemini's 5G LaaS

The IT firm said that a team of experts will support organizations to develop latest use-cases in 5G.

The solution in question is the Industry Connect solution by Ericsson at the 5G Lab. Capgemini said that the solution is plug and play and dedicated network product. The product also comes with Ericsson's pre-selected components.

This solution provides private, on-premise deployment for limited coverage, which is ideal for use cases such as manufacturing. In the lab, the same will allow for testing of various use cases for industries such as health, safety, manufacturing.

The French IT firm has built the lab in Mumbai, and it will offer the following:

• Ideation catalyst program for 5G immersion and opportunity framing
• Use case acceleration platform to implement business use cases on a pre-packaged platform
• Fab Lab to setup capabilities to operate a client-exclusive 5G Lab

Ashwin Yardi, CEO – India, Capgemini said, “the Capgemini 5G Lab offers a “ready to use” platform for our customers to ideate, innovate and deploy use cases as they adopt new technologies which will enable them to accelerate their digital transformation journey towards Intelligent Industry".

He further added, "this 5G lab will cater to four main industry categories namely Smart Factory, Smart Utilities, Smart City and Smart Retail to enhance the relevance of the Lab’s use cases in the multisectoral paradigm”.

Nadine Allen, Head of Enterprise Business, Ericsson South East Asia, Oceania and India, said, “Industry Connect is a secure, easy to install, easy to manage turnkey Industry 4.0 solution providing 4G LTE as well as the latest 5G standalone cellular technology. We are delighted to collaborate with Capgemini to set up this 5G Lab in India to test potential 5G use cases for enterprises as the country prepares to launch 5G.”