Case Study: Tier-1 North American OEM of Packet Monitoring Systems achieves unified, intent-driven management and single‑pane monitoring of heterogeneous devices with Happiest Minds' Unified Controller solution

Development of a Unified Controller for managing heterogeneous devices

Happiest Minds is a product engineering and digital transformation company focused on software‑defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV) and cloud‑edge solutions. Clients facing disruptions from 5G, edge computing, SD‑WAN and multi‑cloud architectures turn to them to design, automate and monetize networking products that require end‑to‑end orchestration, programmability and operational automation to deliver optimal performance and user experience.

Using a full‑stack services model (platform engineering, application development, DevTestOps, network automation and device engineering), Happiest Minds delivered solutions including a SONiC‑based cloud switching OS, a unified multi‑protocol controller, an SDN‑orchestrated smart‑home platform scaling to 3M homes (99.9% availability, 30k+ RPS), containerized UTM-as-a-service, analytics‑enabled SD‑WAN and virtualization of roaming functions (5× performance gain, ~70% line‑rate). The results drove faster time‑to‑market, lower costs and manual effort (test cycles cut from ~20 days to <1 day), improved scalability and performance, and enabled new managed‑service and hybrid deployment opportunities for customers.