AI-Ready Networking: Why Enterprises Are Moving to Network as a Service – Tata Communications Triple-T
Every network leader in the room is navigating the same pressure: AI adoption is accelerating across the enterprise, but the network was never built for it. Distributed AI workloads, multi-cloud sprawl, unpredictable traffic patterns, and the relentless demand for always-on connectivity are exposing the limits of legacy WAN architectures — architectures held together by manual processes, fragmented visibility, and rigid contracts.
The result is operational drag, rising costs, and a network that slows the business down rather than propelling it forward. This session confronts that reality head-on and makes the case for why Network as a Service is not just an architectural evolution — it is the strategic response to the AI era.
Tata Communications will present its four-pillar NaaS framework:
* a managed global internet WAN delivering 100% SLA-backed connectivity across 230+ countries;
* a multi-cloud network that automates and secures hybrid connectivity across AWS, Azure, and GCP under a single dashboard;
* software-defined, self-healing data centre interconnect with on-demand 100G;
* and an AI-powered network observability platform providing unified visibility and orchestration across hybrid, multi-vendor environments.
Three Key Takeaways:
1. Why AI workloads make legacy WAN architectures fundamentally unsustainable — and what the inflection point looks like for your organization.
2. How a four-pillar NaaS model delivers unified, automated, and cloud-native connectivity across data centers, clouds, and branches under a single operating model.
3. What network observability at AI scale means in practice — and how intelligent automation turns network complexity into a competitive advantage.
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.
