INTERVIEW
TATA COMMUNICATIONS
TATA COMMUNICATIONS: A GLOBAL DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM ENABLER CNME Editor Mark Forker managed to secure an exclusive interview with Vaneet Mehta, Associate Vice President and Region Head, Middle East, Central Asia & Africa, at Tata Communications, to find out how the global telco provider has responded to an increase in demand for network capacity and bandwidth, what the future of the workplace will look like and what can be done to make enterprise IT infrastructure more resilient.
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an you outline
of usage. Enterprise platforms
to our readers
and collaboration applications
how Tata
were overburdened.
Communications
By March 2020, we delivered over 650 customers orders, and 1.35 TBPS of additionally
leveraged its technological
requests to service providers,
provisioned bandwidth –
expertise to help its
cloud/content service providers
signifying a higher demand for
customers maintain
and OTTs to cope with the
data bandwidth. We also saw a
‘business continuity’ during
usage spikes. Some content
30% growth in internet traffic
the COVID-19 pandemic?
providers and ISPs even tried
on our network in March
With COVID-19, remote working
to intentionally adjust HQ
compared to January 2020.
has become the new norm for
multimedia content to a lower
employees across the globe.
quality to meet the demand.
As customers implemented
Tata Communications
Tata Communications has been supporting tens of thousands of users across more
their own work from home
witnessed an increased demand
than 150 organisations, to
measures and looked to shift
for network capacity, together
work from home, collaborate
workloads seamlessly across
with requirements for bespoke
seamlessly, improve employee
borders as part of their own
solutions that enabled efficient
productivity, and maintain
business continuity plans, a
and secure remote working.
business continuity during
much higher amount of IT
Right from the start
this time - truly enabling
and network resources started
of the lockdown, Tata
being consumed, due to
Communications was able to
employees video-conferencing
augment its network capacity
The COVID-19 pandemic
customers and colleagues,
and provide integrated,
has impacted how we work,
and accessing large data files
scalable remote working
when we work, and where we
stored on the cloud.
solutions with in-built
work. However, in your expert
secure access to a company’s
opinion what does the future
most organisations globally
corporate applications
of the workplace look like?
were not designed for this level
wherever they are hosted, to
The global pandemic has
The IT infrastructures across
OCTOBER 2020
They made urgent upgrade
customers across the world.
borderless collaboration.
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