How Do Global Enterprises Solve Network Challenges: Leveraging Tata Communications’ Network Fabric – Tata Communications Triple-T
For network infrastructure leaders, managing global networks means navigating operational complexity, vendor fragmentation, and unpredictable performance across regions. This session delves into the business-critical challenges of deploying agile, secure, and reliable global networks. Highlighting real-world use cases, such as a financial services firm that faced global connectivity disruption due to a severed subsea cable and an auto-service major struggling with an underperforming SD-WAN deployment, this session showcases how Tata Communications’ Network Fabric consolidates vendors, enforces SLA standardization, and ensures seamless operations. Attendees will explore Tata’s programmable networks, which address underlay issues for SD-WAN and provide the agility to scale. Key takeaways include reducing network complexity, maximizing ROI, and enhancing global performance predictability, positioning leaders to future-proof their infrastructure.
Raj Purkayastha is a seasoned technology and telecom leader with more than 25 years of experience spanning pre sales, business development, marketing, and delivery across enterprise and international telecom markets in both mature and emerging regions. As Vice President at Tata Communications, he leads the Pre Sales (Sales Engineering) organization for the Americas, partnering with large enterprises to shape their innovation and growth strategies. In this role, Raj works closely with CIOs and technology leaders to co create solutions that modernize digital infrastructure, simplify complexity, and accelerate what comes next for their businesses.
Throughout his tenure at Tata Communications, Raj has held multiple leadership roles across regions and business lines including Global Carrier Solutions and Enterprise Solutions, consistently delivering revenue growth, profitability, and top tier employee engagement results. He previously led India Pre Sales and served as the Global Head of Product Marketing where he helped translate complex technologies into compelling stories and customer facing narratives that drove product adoption and strengthened the company’s market presence.
Raj is deeply passionate about innovation and has expertise across technologies such as drone navigation, robotic process automation, and Internet systems. He is a patent holder with additional patents pending, and his research has been published across several emerging technology domains. At Tata Communications, he spearheaded the development of the company’s Work from Home solution stack during the COVID 19 pandemic, using internal IP to rapidly support customers’ evolving digital workspace needs. He has also led key digital transformation initiatives in retail, manufacturing, and other industries, helping enterprises adopt agile, resilient, and future ready architectures. Raj’s global impact includes leading a major country wide telecom transformation program for a government in Southern Africa that significantly expanded national network reach, improved affordability, and strengthened digital capability. His customer engagement philosophy focuses on delivering strategic points of view and thought leadership that help organizations rethink what is possible and reinforce Tata Communications’ leadership in critical markets.
Additionally, Raj has filed 6 Patents in areas of AI, Edge, Drones, RPA and Internet. 3 of these are already awarded to him.
