Indian company HFCL, which focuses on digital networks for telcos, enterprises and governments, announced a collaboration with Microsoft to create converged private 5G solutions.
In a release, HFCL said that the collaboration will target firms in verticals including manufacturing, retail, warehouse, mining, education, defence, railways and smart city.
HFCL noted it is deploying a private 5G network at its optical fiber manufacturing plant in Hyderabad as a pilot program using Microsoft Azure public MEC and HFCL’s 5G indoor small cells. Along the fiber production line, HFCL’s 5G small cells enable real-time fiber defect detection using video analytics and image processing, the company said.
