Sify Technologies Establishes Undersea Cable Landing Station in Mumbai

Sify Technologies Limited, a leader in Managed Enterprise, Network and IT Services in India with growing global delivery capabilities, today announced the operational readiness of their Undersea Cable Landing Station in Mumbai.

The occasion

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Raju Vegesna, CEO and Managing Director, Sify Technologies, said, "Sify is being increasingly recognised as a leading integrated ICT company and this cable landing station is an important milestone in our journey. We now look forward to partnering with telecom service providers and playing a larger active role in the communication revolution in other words unfolding in the Asia Pacific region, Middle East and Africa. With capacity to land additional submarine cable systems, this connectivity will open a larger market for our industry-leading Managed Enterprise and Data Centre Services in the Middle Eastern market."

With the opening of this landing station, Gulf Bridge International becomes the first to land their sub-sea cable system in India. This cable system will provide telecom operators and communications companies, both in India and across the globe, greater choice and resilience. With a capacity of up to 10 terabits per second on certain cable sections, this system is designed to accommodate the rapid growth in voice and rich media traffic originating from and terminating in the Middle East as so then as the African and European markets.

Sify as well signed a Landing Party Agreement with MENA Submarine Cable System S.A.E., a licensed telecommunications operator in Egypt. MENA cable spans over three continents. At first it lands in Italy, Egypt, KSA, Oman, and India with expansion plans to service more African and European countries. MENA-SCS is a six pairs fibre cable, where each pair is designed for expansion up to 96 wavelengths multiplied by 10Gb/s for each, which means an ultimate capacity of 5.76Tb/s and furthermore scope to upgrade to 100G/S innovation to have capacity more than 5 times current capacities.

The largest Managed Enterprise

Sify is among the largest Managed Enterprise, Network and IT Services companies in India, offering end-to-end solutions with a comprehensive range of products delivered over a common telecom data network infrastructure reaching more than 667 cities and towns in India.

A significant part of the company's revenue is derived from Corporate Services, which include corporate connectivity, network and communications solutions, security, network management services, enterprise applications, voice and hosting. Sify is a recognized ISO 9001:2008 certified service provider for network operations, data center operations and customer support, and for provisioning of VPNs, Internet bandwidth, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) solutions and integrated security solutions, and ISO/IEC 20000 - 1:2005 and ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certified for Internet Data Center operations. Sify has as well established a credible reputation in the emerging Cloud Computing market and is today regarded as a thought leader in the domain. Sify has licenses to operate NLD and ILD services and as well offers VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) back haul to long distance subscriber telephony services. The company is India's first enterprise managed services provider to launch a Security Operations Center to deliver managed security services.

Sify Software was established with the cumulative experience gained over the last decade in Infrastructure Management, Data centre Operations and the business of Connectivity. It aims to be a solutions company that provides applications and services to improve business efficiencies of its current customers and prospect client bases.

Commercial & Consumer services include broadband home access and the ePort cyber café chain across more than 243 cities and towns in India. Very recently, Sify as well introduced a whole host of services for the retail consumer on the Consumer cloud platform, thereby becoming among the first to do so in India. Today, the scope of the Commercial and Consumer services has been broadened to target the SMB/SOHO markets. The consumer services as well operate two of the most popular portals in India, Sify.com and Samachar.com.

For a discussion of the risks associated with Sify's business, please see the discussion pursuant to this agreement the caption "Risk Factors" in the company's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2011, which has been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and is available by accessing the database maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov, and Sify's other reports filed with the SEC.

MENA Submarine cable system mission is to build a leading, profitable, service-oriented organization that consistently delivers innovative solutions and reliable services throughout the region and the world. Aiming to be the carrier's carrier of choice whether working on voice, data, internet or video; leading to effective infrastructure and connectivity for successful and dynamic region.

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