NTT Com India-Netmagic and Nuage Networks (from Nokia) have partnered in providing ‘Software-Defined Wide Area Network’ (SD-WAN) solutions to enterprises in India. They are focusing on enabling enterprises to automatically route and optimize network traffic alongside gaining visibility of applications performance without spending more on bandwidth.
NTT Com India-Netmagic will deploy Nuage Networks’’Virtualised Network Services” (VNS) solution at their data centers across India for customers to experience agility and flexibility through automation, alongside experiencing maximized Cloud advantages and advanced security services.
Describing the SD-WAN service as an overlaid network atop any network, Sharad Sanghi, MD & CEO, Netmagic, said here today It would disrupt the market with its ‘Easy-to-use’, zero touch deployment addressing last-mile connectivity in an agile, secure manner and being focused on global and Indian enterprises, besides also MNCs having offices in India. “This is a billion-dollar market with the targeted Indian market estimated at U.S.$ 700 to 800 million. The USP is customer having network control as it is service-provider independent,” he said.
Noting that there is major disconnect between enterprises’ needs and the present “order-and-wait” situation where Enterprises’ IT still has unmet needs, Sunil Khandekar, CEO and Founder, Nuage Networks, said “NTT Com India-Netmagic chose our solution — after a long and exhaustive process — for attracting new customers who are seeking to move from MPLS to SD-WAN alternatives having a differentiated set of on-demand network and value-added services. This service offers top-of-line, high degree of encryption despite whatever transport it is delivered on.”
“We are a Euro 23.2 billion company with 8 Nobel Prizes and one Oscar, and our aim is to get India ready for 5G,” Sanjay Malik, Head of India Market, Nokia, said, adding that with India’s market witnessing six times growth in a short period, Nokia is looking at connecting billions of devices through IOT in the near future. “India is important for us and we have our largest Research & Development facility in Bengaluru in providing end-to-end products and serving the global market,” he said.
Nitin Mishra, Senior Vice-President & Chief Product Officer, Netmagic, said India’s changing network landscape witnessed 30% to 50% of large businesses shifting to the Cloud, changing traffic flows and making traditional WAN sub-optimal. “About 80% of new applications will be deployed in the Cloud by 2030 amidst 20% increase in enterprises and WAN bandwidth per year at branches and network traffic doubling every three years,” he said.
Highlighting the target market as existing WAN deployments, Greenfield/New Developments including Government projects, Mishra said that besides providing 40% savings over contemporary solutions, the SD-WAN routers — deployed at even remotest locations with the service providers having the controllers – would provide a one-stop solution for WAN and ICT requirements and Cloud connect to public and private Clouds. By 2020, the SD-WAN market is expected to be U.S.$ 6 billion (from U.S.$ 225 million in 2015) with this services penetration rising by 30% in existing enterprises by 2019, he added.
