C-DOT

The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) is an Indian Government owned telecommunications technology development centre.
It was established in 1984 by Sam Pitroda with the initial mandate of designing and developing digital exchanges.
C-DOT has expanded to develop intelligent computer software applications.
It has offices in Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata.
It is one of the few government organisations in India which have been appraised at Maturity Level 5 of CMMI-DEV v1.3.
In February 2014, United Telecoms Limited the technology licensee of CDOT won GPON order from BBNL to a value of Rs 1000 Cr approximately. This is the biggest win by any CDOT partner in global competitive bidding in recent years.
For the same project National Optical Fibre Network (now BharatNet Project), C-DOT won the NMS tender. CDOT has contributed significantly in telecom sector and it is known as temple of technology in India.
Presently CDOT is implementing Common Alert Protocol for India by developing Location based Integrated Disaster Early Warning System for National Disaster Management Authority.
In this project, Forecasting agencies like IMD, CWC, INCOIS, GSI, SASE and national to state level disaster management authorities in a common platform for dissemination of early warnings for cyclones, floods, thunderstorms, sandstorms, tsunamis, landslides and Avalanche to the public over multiple media like mobile, internet, TV, radio, social media etc.
With the completion of the project, we will not only save precious human lives but it will also take make the country Disaster resilient.

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