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Manish Mangal, Tech Mahindra’s Global Business Head for 5G and Network Services, on envisaging the company’s future network as a driver for 5G telecoms
W hen Manish Mangal joined Tech Mahindra three and a half years ago, he was invigorated by the prospect of strapping in to join the digital services company as it propelled its mission to become a catalyst in the transformation of the telecommunications industry. As a technology-driven company, Tech Mahindra wants to lend a helping hand to both telecommunications service providers and enterprises as they transform their network infrastructure to make their businesses run better and improve customerResponsibleservice.forrunning the company, Mangal is the Global Business Head for 5G and Network Services at Tech Mahindra and spends his days looking to create solutions customers would receive the most benefits from.
“Tech Mahindra is an exciting company, and one of the reasons I came here was Tech Mahindra’s family-like culture. While it's a large company with over 158,000 employees, everyone still works like a family. The management team, the colleagues that I have – they all have excellent relationships and work towards the common interest of putting our customers first, then the shareholders and the employees together,” explains Mangal. 4 www.techmahindra.comm
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“People often debate whether 5G is another G. We have gone through 2G, 3G and 4G; is this 5G just another generation of technology that gives you something more? More bandwidth, better latency, more capacity? Is it really about that, or is it something that is fundamentally changing? I believe that 5G is that inflexion point in our industry that when we look back ten years
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“When we talk about Tech Mahindra as a company, our objective is driven by the desire to become that trusted partner and provider for telecoms and enterprise customers by bringing growth tactics to life.”
Driving forward the future of 5G Now, Mangal and the team are sharply focused on the future of 5G, driven by the number of solutions this technology can enable. “5G is one of those very transformative technology changes happening in the industry,” he notes.
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“When we talk about Tech Mahindra as a company, our objective effectively is fundamentally driven to become that trusted partner and provider for the telecom and the enterprise customers in bringing growth tactics to life”
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He is skilled in analysing industry trends, assessing threats & opportunities and developing factbased actionable plans targeted toward business owners and CEOs to increase enterprise value and fulfil the company's business missions.
INDUSTRY: IT SERVICES LOCATION: TEXAS, USA 1986 Year founded 158,000+ Number employeesof $6bn+ Revenue from now, we'll be able to point out and say that 5G made everything happen,” he5Gcontinues.issetto transform the way people live and work, and Tech Mahindra is determined to be an integral part of the transition, having created key focuses for its agenda to ensure that as it catalyses the shift to 5G, it will continually meet the needs of its customers.
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Mangal is an inventor of 60 patents issued by the US patent office.
“Now, 5G is becoming about the overall experience for consumers; it is an experience platform and isn’t a connectivity platform anymore. 5G enables an entirely new generation of capabilities that can be envisioned by how the customers will use it. Several brand-new experiences can be delivered with 5G, and this mirrors a change in a society that has become much more social,” says Mangal. Another key focus for Tech Mahindra is sustainability, particularly as the telecommunications industry has a significant impact on the environment – it is estimated that the industry alone contributes to 1% of all global power consumption, something that Tech Mahindra wants to help reduce.
Manish Mangal is an accomplished telecom industry veteran with 20 years of professional experience. He has held various leadership roles in Fortune 100 companies leading technology initiatives from incubation to operationalisation that transformed businesses and increased enterprise value. Mangal is an expert in leading large and global teams, developing end-to-end technology solutions, and creating/ managing strategic partnerships that directly improve enterprise value.
“Customers can trust us to act on their behalf at all times,” says Mangal. “There is a chasm between the legacy and the providertelecommunicationfutureservice–tobridge,growand fix. 8 www.techmahindra.comm
“The amount of energy consumption industry has with maintaining and operating all these networks is immense. So, for the first time, 5G has brought in a fundamental underpinning to say that the future of the networks we want to design needs to consume less and support the sustainability agenda for the Earth. It needs to enable the better climate behaviour we want to establish. And it needs to focus on that as a centre, rather than everything else. So, I think that's another fascinating part of 5G, driving a sustainable agenda,” Mangal comments.Finally,with the introduction of 5G, Tech Mahindra is keen to eradicate any issues with connectivity to provide an ‘invisible connection’. “The idea of connectivity becoming invisible is the mission that I would love to carry on as part of my responsibility in this industry, such that it just becomes so pervasive, so ubiquitous that nobody has to think anything about making it work.” Tech Mahindra’s network of the future As the largest independent integrator for the telecommunications industry, Tech Mahindra has a laser-sharp focus on outcomes for the customer, as it doesn’t have its agenda in terms of selling a specific technology or solution as it creates a network of the future.
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“I believe that 5G is the inflexion point in our industry that, when we look back ten years from now, we'll be able to point and say that 5G was the one that made everything happen” MANISH MANGAL GLOBAL HEAD OF BUSINESS, 5G AND NETWORK SERVICES, TECH MAHINDRA www.techmahindra.com 9 TECH MAHINDRA
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complexities and helps companies focus on building innovative edge services for enterprise, telcos, and other “Theindustries.buildout of the edge is being driven by societal shifts—like supply chain bottlenecks, increased security needs, the new normal of hybrid work. It’s also being driven by the cost and latency of backhauling data to the cloud, as well as regulations about what can be stored in the cloud,” says Navale. Intel collaborates closely with Tech Mahindra in the edge space as it develops silicon and edge solutions to drive new revenues for the industry.
Containing many different technical components, the company’s ‘network of the future’ vision contains three building blocks to ensure that technology, vision, and execution are all aligned. Mangal adds: “Building block number one is the pure infrastructure. We see a tremendous transformation, particularly because now hyperscalers are taking a lot more active interest and investment in that category. So, there's a whole layer of how the infrastructure will evolve.”
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“The second building block of the network of the future is about the functions of the network itself – whether it's a 5G radio network, 5G core network, security platform or a variety of other components. The functions of the network will drastically evolve to become a pure software cloud with native functions so that anybody can innovate around that. A huge transformation is coming to open that space.” 12
“ The idea of connectivity becoming invisible is the mission that I would love to carry on as part of my responsibility in this industry; such that it just becomes so pervasive, so ubiquitous that nobody has to think anything about making it work”
As a transformation player, my focus for us as the network of the future is to help create capability solutions that create those transformation journeys for the customer, bridging that chasm and that gap,” he adds.
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He continues: “The third building block for the network of the future is around managing and operating the network. The network learns itself; it's closed-loop automation. So, it decides, it learns itself, it post-corrects itself, and it just keeps refining and refining and refining – to the point that the network’s operations are selfmanaged, self-sustained and self-driven.” To ensure the automation element of the network runs well, Tech Mahindra built a platform called AINOF: an AI-enabled platform that brings together different tools to simplify and automate operations. Driving forward Tech Mahindra’s vision with Intel Mangal understands the importance of strategic partnerships in delivering the best-in-class service and solutions to customers. Armed with this understanding, the executive has cultivated and nurtured strong partnerships with companies offering top-quality solutions, enabling Tech Mahindra to become a catalyst in the transformation of the telecommunications industry.Akeypartner in this journey is Intel – a partnership Mangal describes as “a match made in heaven”. 90+ Countries 1262+ Global customers, including Fortune 500www.techmahindra.comcompanies
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“Both of us operate in different business layers, but, fundamentally, we are similar. Intel is an amazing, phenomenal technology company. They are the bedrock of all computing technology. Our partnership with Intel started very early to figure out how the technologies they are building can be released into the operator's networks so that the customers can use it. Our partnership stems from a technology collaboration to the realisation of the technology, into the transformation journeys for the customer,” he“Wesays.also work closely with them in bringing a software-based cloud-native network to life with the operators. That's the second area of our partnership that we have with Intel. Our approach is: together, we go to the customer and help create these transformation journeys – our partnership has been doing extremely well. I believe we’ll be able to drive significant collective impact in the future,” adds Mangal. The most significant opportunity of this partnership comes from the mutual growth the pair can generate together. Collaborating closely in the edge space, Mangal explains: “Intel is inventing chip sets design solutions that make these edge solutions real to drive a lot of new revenues for the industry.” With Intel, Mangal is confident that Tech Mahindra will be able to speed up the adoption of 5G as it improves its clients’
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“We are investing heavily in technology capabilities; we are investing heavily in the organisation and the structure and the people that become the trusted transformation partners for our customers.” He concludes: “As I look at the next 12 to 18 months, I'm looking at exciting times for us. One of my mentors said that if you are a young engineer, this probably is the best time to be in the industry – it has suddenly become fashionable and fascinating. For me, the next 12 to 18 months in Tech Mahindra looks like a continuation of the journey that we have already taken on – to become the partner for telecoms and enterprises in the journey of creating the network of the future for themselves.”
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networks: “Our mission is to be the trusted transformation partner for the industry. For us, that involves continuous evolution as a company and as a network services’ business to build more and more capability in advanced technology areas.”
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“We are investing heavily in technology capabilities; we are investing heavily in the organisation, the structure and the people that become the trusted transformation partners for our customers”
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