Case Study: Tier-1 North American OEM achieves unified, intent-driven multi-device management and new SDN market access with Happiest Minds

Reducing the Testing cycle duration from Days to Hours

Happiest Minds is a next‑generation digital transformation and product engineering firm focused on SDN, NFV, cloud, IoT, analytics and security. Backed by investors including Intel Capital and J.P. Morgan and operating across 8 countries, the company helps OEMs, ISVs, service providers and enterprises address disruptions from 5G, edge computing and SD‑WAN by building portable, scalable, multi‑cloud and edge‑ready networking products. Clients commonly need end‑to‑end orchestration, automation and high performance for virtualized networks and services.

Happiest Minds delivers a full‑stack SDX offering—VNF/SDN development, MANO/NFVi, controllers, orchestration, cloud/edge, analytics and test automation—leveraging open‑source platforms and a strong partner ecosystem. Using containerization, DPDK acceleration, microservices and Agile/DevOps practices they enabled customers to penetrate cloud and SMB markets, reduce testing cycles from ~20 person‑days to under a day, support a 3M‑home smart‑home rollout at 99.9% availability and 30k+ RPS, virtualize roaming with ~70% line‑rate and 5x performance gains, and launch scalable SD‑WAN and UTM managed services that drove new revenue.