Tata Communications’ internal incubator debuts NetFoundry – reinventing networking for the hyper connected era

Tata Communications’ internal incubator debuts NetFoundry – reinventing
networking for the hyper connected era

SINGAPORE – February 27th 2017 – Tata Communications successfully
incubates another business idea through its flagship innovation programme ‘Shape the Future’ and
debuts NetFoundry, a business that reinvents
networking for the hyper connected era at Mobile World Congress this year [Hall 2 Stand 2H26].

The NetFoundry platform enables enterprises to
obtain the security and performance of a private network, while benefiting from
the economics and agility of the Internet – enabling enterprises to securely
and reliably extend applications from edge to core to public and private
clouds, using Internet access. Leveraging APIs, web consoles and standard
DevOps tools such as Jenkins and Ansible, instead of proprietary network
management tools, enterprises are able to deploy and manage software defined
networks (SDN) in the same manner in which they spin up virtual machines.

Galeal Zino, Founder of NetFoundry says, “Our
platform enables developers and partners to embed secure, reliable networking
inside their solution stacks. This unleashes untapped potential for developer
innovation and enables enterprises to rapidly take IT, IoT and cloud apps from
prototype to production, while meeting the most stringent enterprise
requirements for security and performance.”

NetFoundry leverages Tier one networks including Tata Communications’ leading
global network together with NetFoundry’s patent pending platform, cloud-native
SDN and software defined perimeter architecture. It has also created a
comprehensive partner community to provide customers access to a full solution
stack with resiliency, quality of experience and security at the core. These
best-in-class technology partners include Dispersive Technologies (Virtual Network Function (VNF) software for superior data
security) and Sonus Networks (VNF function for Session Border
Control). Ecosystem partners interoperating with NetFoundry’s services include Integron, a leading provider of managed IoT services to over one million
deployments worldwide. Integron uses NetFoundry software to provide its managed
healthcare services with the security and performance they require.

Tata Communications’ Shape the Future internal
incubator has been responsible for internally crowdsourcing more than 500
business ideas with the potential to become $200m businesses within 10
years and subsequently incubating seven of those ideas.

Julie Woods-Moss, Chief Innovation Officer at Tata
Communications says, “The Shape the Future programme is testament to our belief
that innovation can happen at scale in large organisations. In a short space of
time, NetFoundry has quickly built-up its APIs, channel and partner ecosystem
and credentials to show how it can enable businesses to solve their networking
challenges in today’s digital world and also extend software developer
innovation by abstracting them from the underlying network. Looking ahead to
the long-term, this opens up all sorts of possibilities for networking to
operate as a function of the application, integrating the previous disparate
functions of network, security within one architecture – enabling the
completion of the software eats the world concept.”