Tech Mahindra has announced that it has collaborated with Cisco to drive the infrastructure modernization of optical transport networks with the introduction of Cisco routed optical networking.
The collaboration aims to simplify the Internet transport networks by leveraging state-of-the-art optical and routing technologies to converge services over an IP Infrastructure enabling a high degree of automation.
The collaboration will empower service providers to reduce their operational expenses and their total cost of ownership. Tech Mahindra’s vast and diversified experience in building IP-based, software-driven end-to-end 5G networks combined with the Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking solution, will enable an end-to-end value proposition for service providers to reduce the complexity in their networks.
Tech Mahindra is investing in both a routed optical networking lab at Bangalore, India, and specialized services such as SDN-enabled transport, transport slice, and segment routing, enabling customers to experience and operationalize the transformation of 5G transport infrastructure. This collaboration will enable service providers to merge IP and private-line services onto a single transport layer with standardized pluggable coherent optics.
Manish Mangal, Global Head of Business and 5G and Network Services, Tech Mahindra
5G connectivity, network intelligence, and edge computing are unleashing a whole new world of opportunities such as the delivery of immersive experience using Metaverse, Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), among others. The network infrastructure of the future will need to be even more agile and software-driven, to bring such possibilities into life.
Shaun McCarthy, Vice President, Worldwide Mass-Scale Infrastructure Sales at Cisco
As service providers are modernizing their 5G networks to offer new services, there is a critical need for the infrastructure to be agile, flexible, and simple. With Tech Mahindra’s expertise in OSS/BSS and Cisco’s routed optical networking portfolio, we can help customers expedite the transformation of their network while providing significant cost savings.
