Reliance Jio likely to deploy VoNR tech to provide calling service on its 5G network: Report

By News Desk On Jul 31, 2020

To offer voice service on its future 5G network in India, Reliance Jio will reportedly deploy VoNR (voice-over new radio) technology.

Jio Platforms has already built its own IP Multimedia subsystem (IMS) which powers its VoLTE services nationally, handling over 10 billion minutes of calls on a daily basis.

“So instead of voice over LTE, we will have voice over new radio or VoNR, which is the 5G version, but the products that we built are backward compatible with 4G. So even as we bring in VoNR capabilities, VoLTE services will continue to run seamlessly on the same equipment. And obviously, we are waiting for spectrum being made available,” Kiran Thomas, President at Reliance Industries Limited, said.

Jio Platforms that houses RIL’s telecom business under Reliance Jio Infocomm, has developed an end-to-end suite of products and platforms, covering radio as well as core components. The company is developing every component in-house, ET Telecom reported.

“…this entire intellectual property is owned by Jio Platforms Limited. It is created with a carrier-grade quality of service in mind, because we have direct experience of having run these networks, and obviously we are keeping it cloud-native, so that not just in our own data centres, but we have to take the solutions outside of our data centres to serve external customers, that transition would be fairly easy,” Thomas said.

Jio Platforms is developing “own-homegrown solutions” that will support Reliance Jio and other RIL businesses in several sectors, including retail, financial services, education, healthcare, agriculture, and manufacturing.

Thomas further added as opposed to a partner-led approach in the 4G space, Jio Platforms has developed the full “5G stack” internally.

In 5G, Thomas said, that Jio is in a position to deploy its own solutions first on Jio’s network in India, and once proven at the national level, the company will take this complete solution to other telecom operators worldwide.