Case Study: Leading of Communications Modules and Systems Providing Company achieves SDN/NFV-enabled product innovation and faster time-to-market with Happiest Minds

Leading of Communications Modules and Systems Providing Company - Customer Case Study

Happiest Minds is a digital transformation and product engineering firm specializing in SDN, NFV, cloud, IoT and analytics, backed by investors including Intel Capital and J.P. Morgan. Its customers — OEMs, service providers and web-scale enterprises — faced rapid industry disruptions (5G, edge computing, SD‑WAN, multi-cloud) and needed scalable, interoperable, secure and automated network and device solutions to improve performance, reduce costs and accelerate time-to-market.

Happiest Minds delivered full‑stack solutions — from board and device engineering through NFVi, VNFs, SDN controllers, orchestration, and DevTestOps — using containerization, DPDK/SR‑IOV acceleration, SONiC, OpenStack/OSM and microservices. Outcomes included enabling white‑box OEMs to enter cloud markets, an SDN‑orchestrated smart‑home platform supporting 3M homes with 99.9% availability and 30k+ req/sec, a cloud UTM and multi‑tenant SDWAN managed service, virtualization achieving ~70% line‑rate and 5x gains for certain traffic, and testing automation that cut cycles from ~20 days to under a day — improving scalability, performance and time‑to‑market.