Tech Mahindra launches SDN - NFV based Smart City Solutions

Tech Mahindra, a specialist in digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering, has launched a best-in-class SDN and NFV based solutions suite to address the ever changing network scenarios and demands in building the smart cities. As per SDNCentral, global SDN-NFV spends is going to reach close to $35 Billion in 2018 with a growth rate of more than 20% through 2018. Tech Mahindra has established itself as a key player in the SDN-NFV space and offer vendor neutral System Integration capabilities and highly scalable Managed Services to its customers.

As a part of this suite of solutions, Tech Mahindra has developed a carrier grade Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) solution that scales independently for control and data plane surges. Tech Mahindra’s 3GPP compliant vEPC comes with a custom developed VNF manager that enhances virtualization platforms for carrier grade requirements of virtual network functions. This would result in significant reduction in CapEx as vEPC runs on commodity x86 hardware, provide for a highly scalable & flexible solution and ensure effective resource utilization.

Tech Mahindra is a leading provider of solutions and services to the telecommunications industry with a majority stake owned by Mahindra & Mahindra. The company, since 2002 has operations in China with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Guangzhou.