Wipro recognized as a Leader in ISG Provider Lens™ for Network - Software Defined Solutions and Services 2022, UK

Wipro is positioned as a ‘Leader’ in ISG Provider Lens™ for Network - Software Defined Solutions and Services 2022 in all the segments for the U.K. market.

The report evaluates the capabilities of 53 providers and positions each provider across four quadrants: Leader, Product Challenger, Market Challenger, and Contender. Wipro has emerged a leader in all five segments in the evaluation.

Strengths:

1. Managed (SD) WAN Services

• Consulting-led approach: #WANfreedom is the flagship SD-WAN offering from Wipro that takes an end-to-end, consultative approach to guide the customers in selecting the appropriate services and solutions to manage the specific use cases in their networks. Wipro’s network practice is guided by an internal team that tracks the latest available features in the SDN segment and updates the consulting team, which, in turn, offers advice on the same to the customers.
• Strategic approach for a relatively new working model: Wipro has enhanced its set of offerings in the last few years while boosting its delivery capability. Its Home is the New Branch offering, directed towards facilitating working from home, has been integrated with its #WANfreedom solution, creating the ability to manage multi home networks with a single pane- of-glass visibility. This ensures the required level of security, along with the flexibility of working from home, is attached to the corporate connection and is expected to benefit users who have multiple devices in their office.

2. SDN Transformation Services (Consulting & Implementation)

• Exemplary transformations executed seamlessly during pandemic: Wipro has successfully completed some of the most critical transitions in the last two years, demonstrated by several success stories. Some of these revolve around enabling enterprise networks with a standardised NetOps2.0 framework, building a roadmap for future SD-LAN transformation, transitioning them to SD-WAN and providing business as- usual support. Wipro has also supported the consolidation of global network services, where global delivery models from multiple regions were consolidated to a single, event correlation, AIOps-driven delivery model, portraying effectual ownership throughout the transformation and domain knowledge.
• IBN brought in by automation tools: The NetOps2.0 framework has been fortified with self-healing capabilities that enable effectual management for legacy networks and VPNs. The evolution is driven by the new network bots created by Wipro. Furthermore, its proprietary cognitive digital network infrastructure (CoDNI) automation solution has driven several use cases around self-healing event correlation and suppression of events from legacy infrastructure and SD-WAN.

3. Enterprise Networks Technology and Service Suppliers

• Frameworks and accelerators testing boundaries of network innovation: Wipro implements several solutions using the NetFactory assembly line approach for network rollouts. The approaches are reinforced with tools such as multidomain orchestrator (MDO), which is an accelerator that enables the integration of services across multiple platforms. Furthermore, with proprietary solutions such as SD-DC and Secure Wi-Fi that are created with key partners, Wipro’s experience-led SLAs are key differentiators in the market that address relevant customer requirements.
• Advancing development of IBN: The MDO executes enterprise-wide automation to enable the client to progress along its IBN ambitions, together with policy and service provisioning, cross-domain service assurance, and end-to-end visibility support.
• Unlocking the potential of start-ups: Wipro invests in niche technology start-ups for future value propositions. The company retains a dedicated fund, enabling it to have a first look into the new trends, the challenges around it and the enterprise-level competencies.

4. Edge Technologies and Services

• Dynamizing customer edge infrastructure with boundaryless universal edge (BLUE), driven by NetBox: Its NetBox solution is offered as a part of BLUE, which enables NFV of the hardware as per customers’ requirements. The NetBox can be presented as an extension to the existing network providing basic functionalities such as routers, switches and firewalls. Furthermore, Wipro has reinforced it with business applications, with an orchestration layer on top of it.
• Identifying specific use cases to accelerate the adoption of NetBox: Most 5G powered functionalities are run as business applications within the NetBox solution at the site. The ease in platform management and other features have reduced the implementation time from 14 weeks to 4 weeks. This is also appropriate for situations in a few industries, where restrictions in the supply chain have created hindrances for enterprises to acquire new hardware. The immediate requirements are met with NetBox while the customer plans a better mode of procurement.

5. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

• End-to-end security capability for work-from-any-device users: Wipro’s proficiency in providing secure access, using an agent or web access and leveraging APIs for new applications, creates the differentiation. As the user reaches the layer where the security services are hosted, secured internet access or remote access is enabled through components such as cloud access security broker (CASB), threat isolation, cloud application security, data security and identity security.
• End-to-end support in deploying SASE and being compliant with an appropriate cybersecurity posture: Wipro engages its set of proprietary platforms, accelerators and bots, which work together to provide complete visibility from device to the application, dynamically reducing the risk and initiating action in case of a suspected threat. Services involving DNS security, web proxy and defining an identity depict a flow, which is based on the kind of compliance it is reporting. The holistic offering reduces the complexity of the process, improving the overall cybersecurity posture.