We've heard a lot about the vision
and value of what we see in industry 4.0.
And we're beginning to see some of those benefits,
but at Cognizant, we're actually looking beyond industry 4.0
into industry 5.0, which is where we start talking
about autonomous capabilities.
And that spans across autonomous manufacturings,
autonomous buildings, and smart cities,
and even autonomous mobility.
If you look globally, roughly only 20% of workloads
are effectively migrated to the cloud today.
So the heavy lifting of the core business
is still to come for many companies.
We all can see a wave of investments coming
in the light of 5G, and the expected trillion dollar
domestic economic output that 5G will create
over the next four to five years.
But with 5G, of course, signal network
to support diversified use cases
that require ultra low latency,
high speed, and part efficiency,
and also offers indoor and outdoor coverage,
along with providing bandwidth capacity planning,
control and security.
What Microsoft has really done very well is really
built the foundation that we can leverage
in deploying 5G private networks simply and securely.
Delivering complex use cases like live video analytics
or Azure private MEC requires deep competency
over Azure platforms, and application development experience
over Microsoft Azure, which TechMahindra has been
bringing over for decades.
All of that capability needs to be driven
through the access to vast amounts of data,
and applying AI and ML capabilities
to deliver on the vision that they want.
High speed to provide real time processing,
and real-time systems that do that in a way
that is reliable and supports all their coverage.
They help in delivering value propositions
like vision picking in the context of manufacturing,
or ensuring worker safety by enabling social distancing,
or enforcing PP equipment.
We've enabled one of the largest car manufacturers
enable their dealerships with AR/VR lenses.
As such, we believe that we are that ideal partner
to converge both network and digital
into a single seamless value proposition for enterprises.
Private multi-access edge compute combines
the networking and the computing environment
at the end point, and it allows for designing
for ultra low latency services
that have high bandwidth demands.
The fusion core is ideal, it's completely 5G native,
so running on that, a small footprint is extremely critical,
because what you're focusing on with your 5G
internet strategy is to reserve as much compute as you can
for your digital workloads.
So that's what is ensured by the Metaswitch Fusion Core.
Being one of the largest engineering services
organization globally, HCL supports multiple verticals.
Healthcare, automotive, aerospace, industrial manufacturing,
logistics, and their gains.
To operate efficiently,
and to expand their business opportunities.
The combination of our telco DNA
and our enterprise digital DNA gives us
a critical capability, in partnership with Microsoft,
to enable these kind of edge-based use cases
to be delivered over 5G.
HCL is in the process of implementing multiple use cases
using LVA and fusion core platforms.
To name a few, one is the video-based monitoring
of assembly line to detect anomalies.
Second, fatigue analysis for content operators.
And third, security monitoring using image analytics.
And work is in progress for a leading aircraft manufacturer.
In order to provide capabilities, and 5G,
and edge-enabled solutions for our enterprise customers,
we are using the full range of intelligent edge services
that Microsoft provides.
EG, Sphere, Azure IOT Edge, Azure Stack Edge.
And obviously the virtual network functions
provided with Affirmed or Metaswitch.
We've been partnering very closely with Microsoft
in terms of helping the market understand the capabilities,
and helping in the actual utilization
and deployment of those solutions.
We are complementing Microsoft's technology ecosystem,
and all the range of innovation that comes out of it
with our full range of services
we are co-investing into the 5G cloud box.
The 5G cloud box brings together the investments
that Microsoft has done into Azure for Operators,
and into Affirmed and Metaswitch virtual network
function capabilities with Accenture IP
for telco operators.
For example, the coordinator of automation system.
HCL has deployed Azure Core Stack at CS5 G-Lap,
and integrated with our 5G LAN renders.
And HCL was able to deploy the solutions
with very minimal manual intervention,
so that's one of the biggest implementations.
In partnering with them, we're now investing heavily
to really bring this capability to market,
because we see this as a transformative capability,
that is going to enable manufacturers
to do things going forward that they can't do today.