TCTS Cloud Networking as a Service (CNaaS)

The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 17.5 percent in 2019 to total $214.3 billion, up from $182.4 billion in 2018, according to Gartner, Inc. As most enterprises and small businesses gravitate to the cloud, the boundaries between the enterprise and the cloud continues to blur. Hybrid and multi-clouds continues to be the strategy with most CIOs as regulatory, data governance, security and performance guarantees, etc continue to slow the migration to an all-cloud strategy (Please see diagram below) . To add to this, public cloud management and configuration continues to get more complex. The growing cloud computing complexity was recently documented by the Wall Street Journal that cites a survey of 46 CIOs by KeyBanc Capital Markets. Companies this year are expected to spend more on IT, particularly cloud and security, as they manage increasingly complex technology environments that include a mix of cloud providers as well as on-premise infrastructure.

TCTS CNaaS Solution Offering

Introducing Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS) Cloud Networking-as-a-Service (CNaaS) solution for Service Providers (SPs) and Managed Service Provider (MSPs). TCTS CNaaS compliments other TCTS transformational platforms called Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) and Security-as-a-Service (SECaaS) which at the core are based on technologies from Lifecycle Service Orchestration, Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization

Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS) Cloud Networking-as-a-Service (CNaaS) solution utilizes the industry’s best of breed choice of product partners with TCTS’s award winning next generation transformational consulting, deployment and operation services. TCTS CNaaS incorporates partner products with TCTS professional services for various cloud native functions listed below:

• SD-WAN
  
• Virtual Network
  
• CE/MPLS Connect
  
• VPN
  
• DNS
  
• Monitoring
  
• Virtual Network TAP
  
• DDOS
  
• Firewall
  
• Network Security Groups
  
• Web App Firewall
  
• Virtual Network Endpoints
  
• CDN
  
• Traffic Manager
• App Gateway
  
• Load Balancer

As cloud complexity continues to grow, enterprises are grappling with the many functions, gateways, configuration, segmentation and monitoring of Virtual Networks (VNets) or Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) across data centers, regions and worldwide deployments. Configuration of routing tables, security, gateways and hybrid connectivity within a public cloud VNet/VPC continues to be a problem area for most enterprises. Additionally as the cloud expands to the edge, including managed network connections between cloud and service providers (ie: Express Route, Direct Connect, etc), cloud complexity will be even more challenging to configure and operate. This can be best represented in the diagram below that depicts native cloud functions deployed and distributed throughout the various regions and subnets for a given enterprise VNet/VPC.

TCTS Cloud Networking-as-a-Service (CNaaS) Professional Services
To address the above solution offerings, TCTS’s comprehensive offering for cloud networking services delivers professional services called Plan, Deploy and Operate. This allows Service providers (SPs) or Managed Service Providers (MSPs) worldwide to augment or outsource any needed expertise for delivery of cloud managed services to the enterprises. The following are the set of CNaaS services TCTS offers to service providers worldwide:

• Business Requirements – Document business requirements, goals, objectives, market segments for managed cloud networking service offerings to the enterprises
• Cloud Strategy Consulting – Assist service provider on multi-cloud partnerships, cloud connectivity models, managed cloud offerings, etc
• SDN, NFV and Automation consulting – Advise service provider on network transformation journey towards SDN, NFV and orchestration technologies including migration approaches on brownfield deployments. Provide guidance on automation, cloud APIs and virtualization strategy for managed cloud services
• Hybrid and Multi-Cloud – Build a service provider set of offerings for enterprises that require hybrid and multi-cloud deployments including security, networking and regulatory compliance
• Cloud Assessment – Provide service provider with enterprise cloud assessment offerings that checks connectivity, access technologies and performance
• Cloud Migration planning – Provide to the service provider an enterprise consulting offering on cloud migration strategies
• Cloud Security Planning, Data Governance and Risk Compliance – Deliver a service provider offering on helping enterprises meet regional, national and international regulatory data governance and risk compliance policies for migration to the cloud
• Marketing Campaigns - Prepare product brochures, solution briefs and help in the creation of marketing campaigns on managed cloud networking services
• Sales/Presales Enablement - Product awareness training to service provider sales/presales teams on education of managed cloud networking offerings

Deploy

• PoCs – Deliver on proof of concepts for managed cloud networking services to validate functionality, performance, automation and availability
• Deployment Plan and Service Launch - Actual deployment, installation of technologies being used, creation of workflows, templates for enterprises, etc
• Customer Trials – Assist in customer trials of managed cloud networking services
• Cloud VPC and vNET Setup, Policies and Configuration – Configure cloud regions, policies, gateways, security, and routing for each enterprise managed cloud networking services
• Site Surveys – Provide enterprise site survey documentation on cloud managed services. Where needed provide on-site site survey investigations
• Virtual Network Function (VNF) Onboarding and Testing – Provide lifecycle VNF testing of functionality, performance and features for any VNF vendors chosen in managed cloud networking services
• Cloud Migration – Provide managed cloud networking professionals and automation technologies to assists enterprises in their cloud migration
• Managed Cloud Networking Training – Provide training to service provide DevOps and NetOps on managed cloud networking services. As needed DevOps and NetOps professionals can be supplied by TCTS

Operate

• Service activation and Testing – Testing and service activation for managed cloud networking service for a given enterprise customer. Automation systems will be used and provided as the core offering
• 365X7X24 operations – Full operation support fielded by trained experts in cloud networking
• Technical and Remediation Support – Outage, remediation and technical support with automated systems for DevOp environments
• Change management – Automated changes management systems, logging functions and impact analysis
• Privilege access management – automated systems for authentication and authorization
• Cloud Monitoring and device management - Provide service provider with cloud assurance monitoring solutions to ensure E2E performance and security for any managed cloud services being offered to the enterprises
• New Product & Services Integration – Integration of service provider’s evolved and new managed cloud offerings into exiting offerings
• On-Site Support – Remediation that requires on-site professionals can be supplied by TCTS

TCTS’s full solution offering of CNaaS, enables SPs and MSPs to deliver on managed cloud networking services by getting to market faster, enabling new revenue generated services, increase strategic partnerships with cloud providers and delivery of high margin value services to enterprises of all types. TCTS unique platform approach, coupled with product partners and professional services makes CNaaS a compelling solution offering to SPs and MSPs worldwide.