Tech Mahindra launches SDN – NFV based Smart City Solutions
Continues its focus on building smart solutions for scalable Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona – March 04, 2015 – Tech Mahindra Ltd. a specialist in digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering today announced, the launch of best-in-class SDN and NFV based solutions suite to address the ever changing network scenarios and demands in building the smart cities.
As per SDNCentral, global SDN-NFV spends is going to reach close to $35 Billion in 2018 with a growth rate of more than 20% through 2018. Tech Mahindra has established itself as a key player in the SDN-NFV space and offer vendor neutral System Integration capabilities and highly scalable Managed Services to its customers.
Tech Mahindra is accelerating customers’ Time to Market with these next gen solutions and eco-system of alliances; delivering highest level of integration and choice. We aim to 25% – 30% lower its customer TCO with its powerful, innovative portfolio of reusable Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) components like Load Balancer and Bandwidth Management.
As a part of this suite of solutions, Tech Mahindra has developed a carrier grade Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) solution that scales independently for control and data plane surges. Tech Mahindra’s 3GPP compliant vEPC comes with a custom developed VNF manager that enhances virtualization platforms for carrier grade requirements of virtual network functions. This would result in significant reduction in CapEx as vEPC runs on commodity x86 hardware, provide for a highly scalable & flexible solution and ensure effective resource utilization.
“We, at Tech Mahindra, help accelerate SDN-NFV transformation of CSP networks through End to End vendor neutral solutions powered by in-house IPs, System Integration, testing & Managed Services. Tech Mahindra’s vEPC has a modular architecture making it flexible for adding new features & enhancements. This, coupled with our strong services heritage will play a key role in circumventing higher up-front costs and any hardware related issues,” said Ranganath Rajaiyengar, Vice President – R&D Services, Tech Mahindra.
The new service offering comes from the Digital Enterprise Services (DES) unit of Tech Mahindra. The unit offers innovative and customer-centric services and solutions integrating technology with business that answer today’s issues, anticipate tomorrow’s needs and create Future Proof and Future Ready Solutions using seven technologies namely Networks, Mobility, Analytics, Cloud, Security, Social and Sensors.
Tech Mahindra with its unique set of end-to-end solutions that epitomize the connected world of today and tomorrow presents an interesting yet engaging take on the present and the future. Interesting conversations and engaging ideas of a Connected Future are happening at Hall No. 5, Stand 5G51. Present at the booth will be the executives from Tech Mahindra, Mahindra Comviva, Lightbridge Communications Corporation and Fixstream. Our executives will help you understand markets to metrics and our interactions will be direct towards enhanced business outcomes, with technology as the catalyst.
More details at – https://events.techmahindra.com/MWC2015/Default.aspx
About Tech Mahindra
Tech Mahindra is a specialist in digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering solutions. We are a USD 3.5 billion company with 98,000+ professionals across 51 countries. We provide services to 674 global customers including Fortune 500 companies. Our innovative platforms and reusable assets connect across a number of technologies to deliver tangible business value to all our stakeholders. Tech Mahindra is also amongst the Fab 50 companies in Asia as per the Forbes 2014 List.
We are part of the USD 16.5 billion Mahindra Group that employs more than 200,000 people in over 100 countries. Mahindra operates in the key industries that drive economic growth, enjoying a leadership position in tractors, utility vehicles, information technology, financial services and vacation ownership.
