Tata Communication - Retains leadership position in Gartner's Magic Quadrant - Phillip Capital

Tata Communications (TCOM) continues to figure as a æLeader' in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Network Service Providers. Gartner's magic quadrant is based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. The definition of the two axes is as follows:

Ability to Execute: Gartner evaluates vendors on various factors such as the vendor's financial viability, market responsiveness, product development, sales channels, operations and customer base.

Completeness of Vision: The aspects considered here include market understanding, sales and marketing strategy, offering strategy, business model, industry strategy and ability to innovate.

Tata Communications continues to significantly scale up its product offering which helps the company in competing with the global leaders in enterprise services for large scale projects with extremely complex requirements.

Gartner's Comments on Tata Communications

Tata Communications has been aggressively expanding its network footprint and growing its managed service capabilities, and has now reached the point where it is capable of addressing a much broader range of enterprise networks. Its Ethernet services are especially strong, and Tata Communications is rolling out a range of cloud-enablement network offerings specifically to support enterprise cloud-based applications, including the extension of its network into major cloud-hosting centers, content delivery network (CDN) services and cloud-based WAN optimization. Tata Communications should be considered for global networks, especially those requiring strong coverage of Africa, the Middle East and the Asia/Pacific region, particularly India.

Strengths

- Tata Communications' MPLS and Ethernet networks are growing rapidly, with especially strong coverage of India, the Asia/Pacific region, the Middle East and Africa.

- The vendor has a strong SIP trunk offering, available in the Asia/Pacific region, India, North America and Europe, including support for video calling.

- Tata Communications has a strong range of network security services.

Cautions

- The vendor's network coverage in the Americas (especially South America) is weaker than other leading providers in this Magic Quadrant.

Tata Communications does not currently offer managed LAN and WLAN services.

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