Wipro bags global leadership award in Telecom R&D Services

Wipro has announced that it has been ranked a leader in telecom R&D services for the third consecutive year in an annual survey conducted by Zinnov Management Consulting Pvt. Ltd, a leading Globalization and Market Expansion Advisory firm.

This recognition reiterates Wipro's leadership in telecom and focus on next-generation technologies such as SDN (Software Defined Network) and NFV (Network Function Virtualization). These technologies enable Wipro to partner with network equipment providers in their endeavour to build Digital Highways, the networks of the future. Wipro was also placed first in Zinnov's Global R&D Service Providers (GSPR) Rating 2013 for the fourth consecutive year.

“Telecom is one of the oldest and most mature practice areas within Wipro. The sheer spread in terms of the clients, deep capabilities across a range of technologies and unparalleled support ecosystem of labs and IPs enables Wipro reiterate its leadership position in telecom,” said Sundararaman Viswanathan, Associate Director, Zinnov Management Consulting.

“The telecom industry is at an inflection point in transitioning from hardware centric to software and services-based industry. This transition should create mega opportunities for us. So keeping with this trend, we are currently making major investments in next-generation solutions like SDN, NFV, Telco Cloud, Next-Gen OSS, Analytics and SON/LTE. As we make progress in these areas, we plan to make bigger bets,” said Vinay Rawat, Vice-President & Global Head, Network Equipment Providers, Wipro Ltd.

Over the last two decades, Wipro has established itself as the global leader in product engineering, R&D, IT and BPO services in the network equipment provider market. Wipro’s services portfolio includes system engineering, software and hardware design, development, verification and validation services, product re-engineering and product support services.