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. It enables:

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

Tata Communications’ digital fabric has several components, naming network fabric, cloud fabric, interaction fabric, IoT fabric, which are all secure by design, and bolstered by our end-to-end managed services.

Tata Communications’ network fabric has the building blocks of 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, they cannot keep up with the network infrastructure and security demands. This limits modern application effectiveness, hybrid cloud adoption and hybrid working productivity. Additionally, network and security continue to be organisational silos with teams managing separate KPIs, 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 which can cater for the evolving needs of the future. It includes global network infrastructure made programmable through on-demand capabilities, Managed LAN and WAN solutions like managed Wi-Fi, SDWAN 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 Wi-Fi and LAN is a one stop solution for Wi-Fi and LAN implementation and management. It offers a best-fit solution including site survey, consulting, technology OEM selection, network configuration, deployment, and lifecycle maintenance. It helps in management of wireless devices, users and access permissions, as well as location-specific analytics to support business growth.
  • Predictable and programmable hybrid wan
    Our 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 includes IZO™ Internet WAN, 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 solutions 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 (SSE) – FWaaS, ZTNA, SWG, anCASB. We provide 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

Tata Communications Network-as-a-Service solutions are multi-domain to cater enterprise needs.

  • Meet changing market requirements effortlessly by scaling up and down underlying network in minutes.
  • Save on costs with no need to overprovision cloud connectivity for site-to-cloud, cloud-to-cloud, and cloud-to-SaaS use cases, as well as reduce cloud egress cost.
  • Scale cloud-delivered security as you grow, with a pay-per-use model to ensure consistent security policy regardless of where the users and endpoints are.
  • Get full end-to-end NaaS coverage of on-premises network, underlay WAN, cloud-delivered security and multi-cloud connectivity.
  • Spin up new resources and network bandwidth in minutes with self-service portals.

Our solutions at-a-glance

SDWAN-as-a-Servic

  • Simplified SDWAN offering with cloud-like consumption model
  • Predictable consumption experience
  • Quick and easy-to-deploy digitally with pre-defined use cases
  • Automated service activation and agile change management

Core Network On-Demand

  • Connectivity and bandwidth on-demand for private line and GVPN
  • Zero-based bandwidth with connectivity activated in
    minutes
  • DC-to-DC and DC-to-Cloud on-demand connectivity

Wi-Fi & LAN-as-a-Service

  • Consumption based Managed Wi-Fi & LAN
  • Month-to-month with no minimum commitment
  • Zero obsolescence, zero technical debt

Monitoring-as-a-Service

  • Faster fault identification with proactive 24×7 real-time monitoring
  • Enhanced network visibility with single live performance dashboard
  • Minimised cost and deployment time without additional hardwar

Hosted SASE

  • A single-vendor SASE for simplicity
  • Single-pass architecture for end-to-end visibility and context-led insights
  • Retired on-premises devices and reduced operating costs
  • Better scalability options without additional infrastructure

IZOª Multi Cloud Connect

  • Cloud connections which can be set-up in less than 10 minutes
  • Zero downtime with dependable application performance
  • Observability and cost-reduction of cloud egress charge up to 30%
  • Scalable capacity to clouds, with options of virtual functions

Voice of Customer

  • Hager Group, a German manufacturer of electric installation systems is enjoying the benefits of global cloud-ready network resulting in better user experience after we helped them transform their network connecting 80+ locations.
    “Tata Communications has assisted in our company’s IT Transformation journey and Tata Communications Managed SDWAN along with their IZO™ WAN provides a stable network to support our business operations. There has been significant improvement in productivity and user experience.” Antonio Gelardi, Senior Manager – Network and Security, Hager Group
  • DNV is a leading advisor for the maritime industry. We helped them enhance customer experience through high network availability, and transition from a MPLS based network connecting 325 offices in 100 countries to a hybrid network with cloud-based security.“Global network management from Tata Communications frees us to concentrate on our core business, while improving our people’s efficiency and effectiveness. In addition, high availability enhances the customer experience.” Øystein Eide, Vice President, Head of Cloud Infrastructure, DNV AS
  • Clariant, a Swiss multinational chemicals company, sees seamless interconnection between distributed cloud data centers while transitioning to an internet heavy network. They have a network spread from Latin America to China and needed to adhere with complicated internet regulations in countries like China and India.“On moving 200+ applications from on-premises to the cloud, we needed a solution to connect our distributed cloud data centers over internet, with performance like MPLS VPN. Tata Communications IZO™ Multi Cloud Connect with virtual router capability provided predictable internet connections from our 100+ sites to business-critical applications in the cloud.” Oscar Martínez, IT Senior Network Architect, Clariant SE