Sify and Deutsche Telekom Sign Partnership to Deliver IP and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Services Globally

CHENNAI, India, May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sify TechnologiesLimited(NASDAQ Global Markets: SIFY), a leader in Enterprise Network and ITServices in India with global delivery capabilities and a pioneer in consumerinternet services announced today their partnership with Deutsche TelekomInternational Carrier Sales & Solutions, the internationalwholesalearm of Deutsche Telekom.

This partnership will provide clients and partners with top-of-the-lineIP and VPN services in India and Europe, by leveraging on each othersinvestments in Submarine, Terrestrial Networks and local network reach aswell as regional partnership to reach new growth markets in South Asian,Middle East & Africa markets.

Mr. Raju Vegesna, Chairman and Managing Director, Sify TechnologiesLimited said "SIFY is excited with this partnership with Deutsche TelekomICSS, which will help clients in growth markets like India. Thispartnership with Deutsche Telekom ICSS is an endorsement of Sify's strengthin high quality IP based Network Services. The alliance will strengthen eachpartner's service portfolio and market reach. SIFY- Deutsche Telekom ICSSalliance will enable SIFY to bring matured quality services to the Indiamarket and extend the same across global growth markets in South Asia, MiddleEast & Africa. The combination will enable seamless and quality VPN servicesfor Indian & European carriers and enterprises as they collaborate to reachout to the international markets."

"Sify and Deutsche Telekom ICSS have entered into a win-win partnership,not just for Sify and Deutsche Telekom however for our clients. As the marketchanges and our clients face complex business challenges, this alliancebetween the top carriers of Europe and India will bring synergies that willbenefit our clients jointly, said Dr. Holger Magnussen, Head of DeutscheTelekom ICSS. "It provides both the customers of Sify and Deutsche Telekomthe ability to leverage on our complementary assets in Europe and India, toprovide customers with unsurpassed level of service and a wider range ofproducts more focused and aligned to customer needs.

The largest Managed Enterprise

Sify is among the largest Managed Enterprise and Consumer InternetServices companies in India, offering end-to-end solutions with acomprehensive range of products delivered over a common telecom data networkinfrastructure reaching more than 625 cities and towns in India.

A significant part of the company's revenue is derived from CorporateServices, which include corporate connectivity, network and communicationssolutions, security, network management services, enterprise applications andhosting. Sify is a recognized ISO 9001:2008 certified service provider fornetwork operations, data center operations and customer support, and forprovisioning of VPNs, Internet bandwidth, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) solutions and integratedsecurity solutions, and ISO / IEC 20000 - 1:2005 certified for Internet DataCenter operations. Sify has as well established a formidable reputation in theemerging Cloud Computing market and is today regarded as a thought leader inthe domain. Sify has licenses to operate NLD and ILD(International Long Distance) services and offers VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) back haul to longdistance subscriber telephony services. The company is India's firstenterprise managed services provider to launch a Security Operations Center(SOC) to deliver managed security services. A host of blue chip clients useSify's corporate service offerings.

The specialized domains ofeLearning Services

Sify as well caters to global markets in the specialized domains ofeLearning Services and Remote Infrastructure Management Services. TheeLearning Services designs, develops and delivers state-of-the-art digitallearning solutions for non-profit, for-profit organizations and governmentalorganizations in the fields of Information innovation, engineering,environment, healthcare, education and finance. The Remote InfrastructureManagement Services provides dependable and economical solutions aroundmanaged services, hosting and monitoring.

Sify Software was established with the cumulative experience gained overthe last decade in infrastructure, Data centre and connectivity business. Itaims to be a solutions company that provides applications and services toimprove business efficiencies of its current customers and prospect clientbases.

Consumer services include broadband home access and the ePort cyber cafechain across more than 200 cities and towns in India. Very recently, Sifyalso introduced a whole host of services for the retail consumer on theConsumer cloud platform, thereby becoming among the first to do so in India.Sify.com, the popular consumer portal, has channels on news, entertainment,finance, sports, games and shopping. Samachar.com is the popular portal aimedat non-resident Indians around the globe. The site's content is available in8 Indian languages, which include Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada andTamil, Punjabi and Gujarati should the contingency arise to English.

Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integratedtelecommunications companies with around 128 million mobile clients, 36million fixed-network lines and in broad outline 17 million broadband lines. The Group provides products and services for the fixednetwork, mobile communications, the Internet and IPTV for consumers, and ICTsolutions for business clients and corporate clients. Deutsche Telekom ispresent in over 50 countries and has around 244,000 employees worldwide. TheGroup generated earnings of EUR 62.4 billion in the 2010 financial year -more than half of it outside Germany.

International Carrier Sales & Solutions, an integral part ofDeutsche Telekom's International Businesses unit within the Europeorganization, is the global communications enabler of the Deutsche TelekomGroup and more than 700 external clients worldwide. As one of the largestcarriers in the world, ICSS provides global voice communication, Internetconnectivity to millions of eyeballs, and global roaming and messaging onnext generation platforms, as so then as smart content distribution, mediaexchange, and virtual carrier solutions. The international clients of ICSSexperience seamless service provisioning, including global reach and thehighest quality. The variety of solutions provided by ICSS is based on anexpanding ultramodern infrastructure: Deutsche Telekom's internationalnetwork.

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