CIOTechOutlook >> Magazine >> March - 2015 issue

Tata Communications: A Key Enabler of Information and Communication Technologies

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The adoption of SMAC and wide acceptance of BYOD have accelerated rapidly across various industry sectors along with the exponential growth of connected devices such as mobiles, tablets and laptops. This increasing rapidity of change within the technology sphere has influenced the developed, emerging and developing economies to embrace innovation in technology and become more and more agile. Eroding the limitations that hamper the adoption of technology, Tata Communications, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra has the frontage in ensuring a robust digital ecosystem that is equipped to cope with customers’ demands of intelligence, scalability and flexibility. Being a key enabler of information and communication technologies to many global enterprises, Tata Communications always seeks to create an open infrastructure, partner ecosystem and platform that is fit for businesses. Encompassing the vast spectrum of services ranging from predictable networks, high speed connections & global MPLS virtual private networks, unified communication & collaboration services, DDoS mitigation and detection service, content delivery networks and cloud enablement services, Tata Communications ensures long term strategic client success while retaining the transparency, flexibility and control that today’s CEO/CIOs’ require in order to safeguard and enhance their organizations’ customer experience. Additionally, the company with its customized network solution endows speed; quality and vast network reach to its customers in various verticals like manufacturing, oil, gas, banking, financial services, media & entertainment. Articulating more on Tata Communications’ market reach Vinod Kumar, Managing Director & CEO at Tata Communications says, “Tata Communications was recently positioned as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global second year in a row. Today, it owns and operates the world’s largest and most advanced subsea fibre cable network. Over 24 percent of the world’s Internet routes travel over Tata Communications’ network, and the company is the only Tier-1 provider that is in the top five by routes in five continents”.

Leveraging the Benefits of Networking in the Era of Cloud
With the rise of cloud models, a lot of changes are happening around the network architecture which in every way has troubled the CIOs. It is very much evident that without networks, users cannot access their cloud services. “Without networks; applications, data, and users cannot move between clouds”, adds Vinod. In this view, network architecture needs to be flexible to offer reliability and robust and predictable performance. Tata Communications plays an imperative role in the network architecture and has revolutionised the way people communicate, collaborate and the way companies do business. Against this backdrop, the company has evaluated its own credentials and spearheaded the creation of a network platform that could address fundamental market shifts that has driven the requirement of cloud adoption-public, private and hybrid. The company today prides itself on its network solutions as it is able to mark its presence across six continents and in 44 locations worldwide. Bringing together its experience of addressing current and emerging business challenges holistically, Tata Communications has launched IZO™ ,which is a global platform that combines the public internet uniquely engineered for predictable routing, together with enterprise private and public cloud connectivity and interconnected data centers. “The cloud is the new IT architecture for the enterprise. However, the challenge is that the enterprise WAN was not built for the cloud. It is expensive, inflexible and difficult to scale up and down and the right parts must be assembled from a variety of service providers making for a complex mix of suppliers and supplier agreements. Meanwhile public internet was never built for business in terms of reliability and predictable performance”, adds Vinod. However, IZO™ platform is well equipped to provide all the pieces needed to build network cloud, with customization. “IZO™ could be only delivered on Tata Communications’ global Tier-1 IP Network, Global MPLS and Ethernet Network Spanning across 190+ countries”, quotes Vinod. Bringing together an ecosystem of over 20 network providers covering 34 countries and serving three of the largest cloud platforms – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft® Azure™ and Google Cloud – and over 50 data centers across the globe, Tata Communications nurtures its partnerships with its peers and continues to deliver the most comprehensive enterprise WAN and cloud enablement platforms.
Panel: Tata Communications in numbers:

• $3.2 billion in annual revenue in FY13-14 with 77% of this revenue generated outside of India
• The flagship telecoms arm of the $103.3 billion Tata group
• 1,600 telcos use our network to connect 70% of the world’s mobile network operators
• World’s largest wholly owned submarine fibre network - more than 500,000 kms of subsea fibre, and more than 210,000 kilometres of terrestrial fibre
• Over 24% of the world’s internet routes are on Tata Communications’ network
• 400+ PoPs reach more than 200 countries and territories
• Largest wholesale voice carrier carrying 53 billion minutes of wholesale voice traffic annually – that’s 1 in 10 voice calls globally
• 7,600 petabytes of internet traffic travel over Tata Communications’ internet backbone each month



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