DoT keeps in abeyance order adding SD-WAN routers, switches in must procure locally list

New Delhi: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has kept in abeyance its order that had expanded the list of telecom products a government entity must procure only from local manufacturers. The DoT in an August 31 order included SD-WAN routers and switches, which are used to connect remote branches and data centres, and two dozen other telecom gears in the Public Procurement (Preference of Make in India), Order 2017 and allowed usage of imported components in them.

The “notification… dated August 31, 2021 issued by the DoT is kept in abeyance till further orders,” an office memorandum of September 27 said.

The telecom department did not immediately give any reasons for doing so.