Wipro's Network-Equipment-Provider Vertical is a leading Telecom R&D services provider that delivers solutions & services to enable NEPs to do business better. The convergence of IT and networking is creating unique opportunities for Wipro, as we actively shape the industry through integrated solutions and services offerings based on SDN, NFV & Cloud technologies. Wipro NEP Vertical has been focusing on carrier grade cloud networking with innovative solutions and services addressing needs of Telcos and Network Equipment Providers globally.
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SDN/NFV has gained momentum in customer deployment for different enterprise and retail customer use case scenarios. Network virtualization is gaining momentum across telco cloud and enterprise cloud deployments. This adoption is fueled by significant pressure to reduce capex/opex costs, and there is a need to reduce time for service provisioning and new service introduction. Virtual Network functions based on Open Source technologies and running on x86 hardware are replacing physical network appliances. Some of the prime candidates for network virtualization are vCPE (Virtualized Customer Premise Equipment), vEPC (Virtualized EPC), Software defined Probe and Network analytics.
Traditional network solutions are based on proprietary hardware appliances that slow down the service providers in rolling out new services due to the high procure-design-integrate-deploy cycle time compounded with additional investment costs, increasing energy costs and shorter hardware shelf life. The industry is betting on Network Function Virtualization (NFV) to find a solution to this age-old problem. Over the past few years, Software Defined Networking (SDN) is gaining prominence which enables applications to have real-time visibility into the network and applications being able to program the network on-demand and thereby helping create programmable network infrastructure based on application need.
As the network service providers adopt new technology there would be co-existence of traditional and SDN/NFV technology for an extended period of time. We believe the transition to a virtualized environment using SDN and NFV will happen in a phased manner. Wipro is focusing on creating solutions to enable a true open ecosystem that allows multi-party innovation and accelerates the technology transition.
Currently Wipro's SDN/NFV solutions comprise of the following:
