Tata Communications’ latest IZO SDWAN to enable enterprises unleash global growth

 BENGALURU: Tata Communications has launched IZO SDWAN, the company’s latest addition to its IZO cloud enablement platform. The new service IZO SDWAN now available in 130 countries across emerging and developed markets helps enterprises boosts agility, and flexibility simplifying business communications and processes across different applications, clouds, data sources and connections that create complexity for organizations.

Underpinned by Tata Communications’ global network, IZO ecosystem, and partnerships with the world’s biggest cloud companies, IZO SDWAN boosts agility and flexibility by enabling the instant deployment of branch office networks anywhere in the world, the new service helps enterprises to expand and introduce new products and services faster, and adapt to rapidly changing market conditions.

“A new kind of platform economy is emerging, paving the way for innovative co-created services and business models that transform entire industries,” says Genius Wong, President, Global Network Services, Cloud and Data Centre Services at Tata Communications.

IZO SDWAN is a fully managed, modular overlay service that is tightly integrated with the underlay – the world’s largest and most advanced IP network. Which is why it is quick, easy and risk-free to integrate into organizations’ existing network set-up – be it the public Internet, a hybrid network or a private WAN – boosting the efficiency of bandwidth use while reducing OPEX. By providing employees with faultless, secure access to applications and data, and empowering them to collaborate securely and seamlessly wherever in the world they are, IZO SDWAN enables organizations to drive further efficiencies, boost productivity and improve the bottom line.

“The management of a multitude of applications, clouds and connections which power the platform economy can be hugely challenging for organizations. Our IZO cloud enablement platform and its latest addition, IZO SDWAN, harness our global reach and partnerships to tackle these challenges and enable organizations to unleash the growth potential that new markets, geographies and business models bring through a scalable, borderless and easy-to-manage network,” adds Wong.

Tata Communications has developed multiple variants of IZO SDWAN to suit its customers’ different business and technology requirements. These variants consist of its own patent-pending technology, and one that builds on technology supplied by Versa Networks, ensuring choice and flexibility for organizations.

To meet its customers’ constantly growing needs for cloud connectivity, Tata Communications is deploying 20 new cloud gateways for IZO SDWAN, with several more in the pipeline. These gateways, the IZO ecosystem offering secure, reliable connectivity to the clouds of Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Salesforce, and a single-pane-of-glass management portal, enable organizations to virtualize their network with scale, while ensuring the CIO has full visibility and control over the network. Through the use of edge virtualization, which enables the deployment of multiple virtual networking functions (VNFs) within the same equipment, enterprises are able to reduce the volume of equipment at their branch locations, accelerating the roll-out of new applications and services.

The company’s list of beta customers include Fujitsu Consulting India which is using IZO SDWAN solution as part of its next-generation hybrid network to enhance service delivery and corporate IT services access and Essilor, a world leader in ophthalmic optics, which is using the new service to facilitate its expansion into new geographies.

Over 25% 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.