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Tech Mahindra strengthens partnership with Microsoft to deliver Azure

Operator Nexus Solutions

Tech Mahindra, a leading provider
of digital transformation, consulting
and business re-engineering
services and solutions, announced
an expanded partnership with
Microsoft as an Azure Operator
Nexus Ready Systems Integrator.
The partnership will empower
telecom operators and enterprises
to build, host and operate Long-term
Evolution (LTE)s and 5G networks
by using virtualized/containerized
network functions leveraging
Azure Operator Nexus. As an Azure
Operator Nexus Ready Systems
Integrator, Tech Mahindra will provide
its talent, expertise, comprehensive
solutions, and professional managed
services offerings. The partnership
will leverage a fully cloud-native
and blueprinted 5G core running
on Azure Operator Nexus that
will enable telecom operators to
provide enhanced and customized
user experiences. It will further
provide operators with streamlined
business operations through
simplified management, policies, and
automation delivered through unified
cloud management. Manish Mangal,
Global Head, 5G & Network Services
Business, Tech Mahindra, said,"The
world is embracing telco network cloud with our deep expertise and footprint ownership; driving operational efficiency and
transformation becoming more open, in the telecom industry." Utilizing Azure resiliency; and improving security. Through
edge-centric, hybrid, and data-driven. Operator Nexus, Tech Mahindra will enable our expanded partnership, Tech Mahindra
With Microsoft as a strategic partner, operators to run all their workloads (such as will deliver innovative Azure Operator Nexus
Tech Mahindra is helping operators core, RAN mobile and voice core, operating solutions and services, that will help customers
realize the full potential of their support system, and business support drive business transformation and realize
networks and providing innovative system) on a single carrier-grade hybrid cloud new growth.” The expanded partnership is in
and agile services. The partnership platform. This will help meet the security, line with Tech Mahindra’s DigitALL philosophy
focuses on reinventing the customer resiliency, observability, manageability, and for comprehensive Business Transformation.
experience with innovation at its core performance needs required by operators As part of NXT.NOW™ framework, which aims
and transforming telco networks to achieve meaningful results from digital to enhance ‘Human Centric Experience’, Tech
by building innovative cloud-native transformation. Shawn Hakl, Vice President Mahindra focuses on investing in emerging
infrastructure solutions in the 5G - Azure for Operators, Microsoft, said, technologies and solutions that enable digital
Core and RAN domains. It will further “Network operators are looking to adopt transformation and meet the evolving needs
strengthen our network service cloud technology to modernize and monetize of its customers.
portfolio by combining the Microsoft the network - lowering network total cost of

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