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. 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 for 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. 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. Tata Communications plays an imperative role in the network architecture and has revolutionized 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 drives the cloud adoption-public, private and hybrid. The company marks its presence across six continents and in 44 locations worldwide and is bringing together its experience of addressing the 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. IZO™ platform is well equipped to provide all the pieces needed to build network cloud, with customization. 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.