Tech Mahindra and Nokia collaborate to drive enterprise 5G private wireless adoption globally

Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business re-engineering services & solutions, today announced a collaboration with Nokia, to drive 5G private wireless adoption globally.

The collaboration will further strengthen the already standing relationship between Tech Mahindra and Nokia. Tech Mahindra will leverage Nokia’s private wireless DAC solution for customers across industries and facilitate in automating 5G Private Wireless network management on a cloud (managed as a service model).

Tech Mahindra’s industry knowledge to provide specialized services to customers, 5G enterprise solutions capabilities, such as Factory.NXT, Mining.NXT, and its domain expertise in planning, designing, deployment and management of private wireless networks for enterprises, combined with Nokia’s flagship offering for Private Wireless Networks – Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) will benefit enterprise customers and accelerate adoption of transformative network technologies like 5G, across the globe. Together, this will enable end-to-end IT/OT transformation for customers across industries and sectors such as Manufacturing, Transportation, Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Logistics, Smart Agriculture, and Entertainment, among others, thereby helping enterprises to scale productivity, enhance efficiency, and implement new revenue streams.

Tech Mahindra’s Enterprise Network Services cover the entire network stack and support new age technologies to help enterprises gear up for a complete digital transformation, resulting in an always-available enterprise network.

Nokia DAC provides a reliable, secure, and high-performance private wireless network that is scalable according to needs. An industrial-grade digital automation service platform that provides edge computing capabilities, low latency 4.9G/LTE and 5G connectivity and a suite of applications for enterprises and multiple verticals. It offers an easy-to-use self-service interface for network management tasks, addition or remotion of devices and features, real-time information on Nokia DAC manager with the status and utilization of network and devices as well as radio network and edge cloud health. Nokia DAC also enables access to other network management and operations solutions and integration with 3rd party applications via well-defined application program interfaces (APIs).

Manish Mangal, Global Head of 5G & Network Services Business, Tech Mahindra, said, “5G adoption has become critical for enterprises to achieve the next level of industrial automation and digital transformation that enable higher level of productivity and reduce operational complexity and costs. We are pleased to partner with Nokia as we continue to build 5G ecosystem, and drive innovation and growth in the future. We are committed to help customers achieve their “enterprise of the future” vision.”

Chris Johnson, Head of Global Enterprise Business for Nokia said: “Nokia has supported the digital transformation of over 380 enterprises globally with our private wireless offerings. We are excited to collaborate with Tech Mahindra to bring our global private wireless expertise to upgrade their offering and customer experience worldwide”.

Tech Mahindra believes in DigitALL philosophy for comprehensive Business Transformation. Digital technologies catalyze the transformations – they humanize businesses by helping them think, sense, connect, communicate, secure and act better than before. As part of NXT.NOWTM framework, which aims to enhance ‘Human Centric Experience’, Tech Mahindra focuses on investing in emerging technologies and solutions that enable digital transformation and meet the evolving needs of the customer.