Case Study: Leading Original Equipment Manufacturing Company achieves cloud-provider market penetration and testing automation with Happiest Minds

Leading Original Equipment Manufacturing Company - Customer Case Study

Happiest Minds is a next‑generation digital transformation and product engineering firm (2400+ people, backed by Intel Capital and J.P. Morgan) that specializes in SDN, NFV, cloud, edge and IoT solutions. Its clients faced rapid disruption from 5G, edge computing, multi‑cloud and connected devices and needed software‑defined, programmable and automated networking architectures with end‑to‑end orchestration to modernize products and launch services at scale.

Happiest Minds delivered full‑stack engineering — from SONiC‑based switching OS and unified controllers to SDN‑orchestrated smart‑home platforms, NFVi “cloud in a box,” virtualized roaming VNFs and CI/CT automation — using containers, DPDK, OpenStack, OpenDaylight and microservices. Outcomes included faster market entry for OEMs, support for 3M+ smart homes with 99.9% availability, reduction of testing cycles from ~20 days to under a day, ~70% line‑rate virtualization with 5× performance gains for key traffic, and scalable multi‑tenant platforms that unlocked new revenue opportunities.