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Wipro and Cisco work together to provide Olympus with SD-WAN transformation services

November 24, 2020

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Scott Harrell of Cisco

Information Technology, Consulting, Wipro Limited announced today that it will use Cisco technology to provide Olympus with a managed software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) transformation service.

Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Olympus focuses on solutions for the medical, life sciences and industrial equipment industries, as well as camera and audio products. For over 100 years, we have focused on the realisation of a healthier, safer and more fulfilling life by supporting the detection, prevention and treatment of diseases, promoting scientific research, ensuring public safety, and photographing the world.

In this effort, Wipro will use its unique managed network services solution, #WANFreedom, to rebuild Olympus’ WANs, enabling support across distributed applications in a hybrid, multi-cloud environment. .. The new network infrastructure will significantly improve the performance of Olympus applications for a better user experience, resulting in higher business productivity and agility and lower IT costs.

A model of managed services allows Wipro to continuously monitor, maintain and manage its services to provide its customers with optimal cost efficiency and reliability. Wipro’s managed SD-WAN service, #WANFreedom, utilises Cisco’s global Secure SD-WAN Managed Services Provider (MSP) program.

Stephen Nieborn, Global CIO of Olympus, said: “As companies strive to increase resilience by accelerating digital transformation, I think we are able to keep up with that change. Our cloud adoption and application migration efforts High performance on the network side is required. Our WAN transformation initiative, which we started in collaboration with Wipro, standardises our global WAN in more than 40 countries and applies it with Wipro’s #WANFreedom solution. Improve the user experience and reduce operating costs. Wipro’s centralised contract management platform integrates multiple service providers with up to 30% cost savings.”

Kiran Desai , senior vice president of Cloud and Infrastructure Services at Wipro, said: “We are very pleased to be selected as Olympus’ SD-WAN Transformation Partner. Wipro’s #WANFreedom is a comprehensive lifecycle service from consulting to planning, design, implementation and managed network services. Our model, which is delivered as a service utilising an integrated automation platform, builds a secure and dynamic cognitive digital networking infrastructure for Olympus. The sophistication of this infrastructure. Features enable Olympus to gain the flexibility to access multi-cloud services in its digital transformation efforts, reduce indirect costs, and help support new applications. ”

Scott Harrell, senior vice president and general manager, Internet-Based Networking Group, Cisco, said: “As organisations move to adopt the cloud as their key application, their WAN architecture must also evolve to provide the best user experience and make their organisation more efficient. Security is critical. Through Cisco’s secure SD-WAN technology and Cisco’s new partner service creation program, Wipro allows customers like Olympus to connect to multiple clouds and optimise the user experience for their applications. We can help you accelerate your digital transformation.”

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