Tata Communications’ digital fabric enables hyperconnected ecosystems

The business landscape has undergone a dramatic shift in recent years.  Ecosystems have become highly complex and interconnected, with value chains becoming increasingly non-linear. This hyperconnectivity demands seamless collaboration and real-time communication across a vast network of employees, partners, suppliers, and customers. 

Businesses need to rethink their digital strategies to ensure a frictionless experience for all stakeholders within their ecosystem. However, delivering this frictionless experience is not easy, as CIOs face the challenges of integrating and managing a complex array of technologies, often with a mix of legacy tools and infrastructure.

Tata Communications’ Digital Fabric aims to address these challenges by offering a unified platform that simplifies management, enhances visibility, and provides a secure foundation for building hyperconnected ecosystems. It includes infrastructure, platform, and tools brought together through an orchestration layer to enable better visibility, control, and manageability across the IT landscape. Organisations can expect:

• Improved experiences – Seamless interactions between employees, customers, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Reduced complexity – Integration of disparate tools and systems for easier management.
• Enhanced security – A secure-by-design approach to protect your digital infrastructure.
• Scalability – Designed to adapt and grow as your business needs evolve.

Digital Fabric has several components, including network fabric, cloud fabric, interaction fabric, and Internet of Things fabric, which are all secure by design and bolstered by our end-to-end managed services.

The building blocks of the future of network

Enterprises are adopting modern applications and moving away from monolithic ones. On the other hand, traditional network and security architectures are perimeter-bound and cannot cope with network infrastructure and security demands. This limits the effectiveness of modern applications, hybrid cloud adoption, and hybrid working productivity. Additionally, network and security continue to be organisational silos with teams managing separate KPIs and priorities, making it challenging to take on IT modernisation and convergence projects.

Tata Communications’ Network Fabric provides a right-fit, resilient, and programmable network with global reach to cater to future needs. It includes global network infrastructure made programmable through on-demand capabilities, managed LAN and WAN solutions such as managed Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, and integrated network and security through our managed SASE offering.  This portfolio consists of the following domains:

• Contextual Wi-Fi and LAN
  Tata Communications’ Managed Services is a one-stop solution for Wi-Fi and LAN implementation and management. It offers the best-fit solution, including site survey, consulting, technology OEM selection, network configuration, deployment, and lifecycle maintenance. It helps with wireless devices, users, and access permission management, as well as location-specific analytics to support business growth.
• Predictable and programmable hybrid WAN
  Tata Communications’ programmable and performant network provides operational visibility, simplified management, and greater dependability. The offerings include Private Lines and Internet Access Services for core connectivity requirements. It also features IZO™ Internet WAN, the world’s first end-to-end predictable internet for business, offering consistent performance, high availability internet services with dedicated, broadband, 4G/5G, LEO Satellite internet access in over 150 countries.
• Software-defined multi-cloud connectivity
  The cloud connectivity solution IZO™ Multi Cloud Connect provides high-speed, on-demand, pay-as-you-go software-defined cloud interconnect (SDCI) with configurable virtual network Functions (VNFs). It is an API-enabled agile platform with comprehensive traffic reporting and analytics.
• Intelligent overlay through managed SASE
  Tata Communications’ Managed SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) represents the convergence of networking and security. It brings together the modern networking architecture of SD-WAN with security service edge, firewall-as-a-service, zero trust network access, secure web gateway, and cloud access security broker. It also provides a single-pass architecture that secures private apps, users, and internet traffic from web, cloud, and network-based threats.

Future-proof your network with comprehensive NaaS solutions

To address enterprise network needs, Tata Communications’ Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) solutions are multi-domain, offering full end-to-end NaaS coverage of on-premises network, underlay WAN, cloud-delivered security, and multi-cloud connectivity.

It is designed to meet changing market requirements effortlessly by scaling underlying networks in minutes, as well as ensure consistent security policy regardless of user and endpoint locations with a pay-per-use model. Self-service portals further enable users to spin up new resources and network bandwidth within minutes. By removing the need to overprovision cloud connectivity for site-to-cloud, cloud-to-cloud, and cloud-to-SaaS use cases, enterprises can reduce cloud egress costs and enjoy OPEX savings.

At a glance, Tata Communications offers:

• SD-WAN-as-a-Service that simplifies the SD-WAN offering with a cloud-like consumption model
• Core Network On-Demand, featuring zero-based bandwidth with connectivity activated in minutes
• WI-Fi & LAN-as-a-Service with no minimum commitment, zero obsolescence, and zero technical debt
• Monitoring-as-a-Service that enables faster fault identification with proactive 24/7 real-time monitoring
• Hosted SASE with a single-pass architecture for end-to-end visibility and context-led insights

These solutions have empowered enterprises across various industries. An example is Hager Group. The German manufacturer of electric installation systems enjoyed the benefits of a global cloud-ready network, resulting in a better user experience after Tata Communications helped transform its network that connects over 80 locations with Managed SD-WAN and IZO™ WAN. Antonio Gelardi, Senior Manager, Network and Security, Hager Group, cited significant improvements in productivity and user experience.

Find out more about Tata Communications’ Secure Network Transformation and Network-as-a-Service offerings.