Sify Technologies
Limited (NASDAQ Global Markets: SIFY), a leader in Enterprise Network and IT
Services in India with global delivery capabilities and a pioneer in consumer
internet services announced today their partnership with Deutsche Telekom
International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), the international
wholesalearm of Deutsche Telekom.
This partnership will provide customers and partners with top-of-the-line
IP and VPN services in India and Europe, by leveraging on each others
investments in Submarine, Terrestrial Networks and local network reach as
well as regional partnership to reach new growth markets in South Asian,
Middle East & Africa markets.
Mr. Raju Vegesna, Chairman and Managing Director, Sify Technologies
Limited said "SIFY is excited with this partnership with Deutsche Telekom
ICSS, which will help customers in growth markets like India. This
partnership with Deutsche Telekom ICSS is an endorsement of Sify's strength
in high quality IP based Network Services. The alliance will strengthen each
partner's service portfolio and market reach. SIFY- Deutsche Telekom ICSS
alliance will enable SIFY to bring matured quality services to the India
market and extend the same across global growth markets in South Asia, Middle
East & Africa. The combination will enable seamless and quality VPN services
for Indian & European carriers and enterprises as they collaborate to reach
out to the international markets."
"Sify and Deutsche Telekom ICSS have entered into a win-win partnership,
not just for Sify and Deutsche Telekom but for our customers. As the market
changes and our customers face complex business challenges, this alliance
between the top carriers of Europe and India will bring synergies that will
benefit our customers jointly, said Dr. Holger Magnussen, Head of Deutsche
Telekom ICSS. "It provides both the customers of Sify and Deutsche Telekom
the ability to leverage on our complementary assets in Europe and India, to
provide customers with unsurpassed level of service and a wider range of
products more focused and aligned to customer needs.
This partnership overall, will provide more competitiveness in the market
from the combined offering of our partnership, and I am excited of the
opportunities and possibilities, this alliance will bring to both of us".
As announced earlier, SIFY's EIG (Europe India Gateway) submarine cable
capacities are ready for activation and SIFY's exclusive partnership with GBI
(Gulf Bridge International) to land their Submarine Cable System in India, is
scheduled to go live in second half of 2011. This is part of a larger full
fledged strategy from SIFY to interconnect the Global Growth markets and
enable SIFY's ICT services globally.
About Sify Technologies:
Sify is among the largest Managed Enterprise and Consumer Internet
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 625 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 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 solutions and integrated
security solutions, and ISO / IEC 20000 - 1:2005 certified for Internet Data
Center operations. Sify has also established a formidable reputation in the
emerging Cloud Computing market and is today regarded as a thought leader in
the domain. Sify has licenses to operate NLD (National Long Distance) and ILD
(International Long Distance) services and offers VoIP back haul to long
distance subscriber telephony services. The company is India's first
enterprise managed services provider to launch a Security Operations Center
(SOC) to deliver managed security services. A host of blue chip customers use
Sify's corporate service offerings.
Sify also caters to global markets in the specialized domains of
eLearning Services and Remote Infrastructure Management Services. The
eLearning Services designs, develops and delivers state-of-the-art digital
learning solutions for non-profit, for-profit organizations and governmental
organizations in the fields of Information technology, engineering,
environment, healthcare, education and finance. The Remote Infrastructure
Management Services provides dependable and economical solutions around
managed services, hosting and monitoring.
Sify Software was established with the cumulative experience gained over
the last decade in infrastructure, Data centre and connectivity business. It
aims to be a solutions company that provides applications and services to
improve business efficiencies of its current clients and prospect client
bases.
Consumer services include broadband home access and the ePort cyber cafe
chain across more than 200 cities and towns in India. Very recently, Sify
also 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.
Sify.com, the popular consumer portal, has channels on news, entertainment,
finance, sports, games and shopping. Samachar.com is the popular portal aimed
at non-resident Indians around the globe. The site's content is available in
8 Indian languages, which include Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and
Tamil, Punjabi and Gujarati in addition to English.
For more information about Sify, visit http://www.sifycorp.com.
About Deutsche Telekom:
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated
telecommunications companies with around 128 million mobile customers, 36
million fixed-network lines and approximately 17 million broadband lines (as
of March 31, 2011). The Group provides products and services for the fixed
network, mobile communications, the Internet and IPTV for consumers, and ICT
solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is
present in over 50 countries and has around 244,000 employees worldwide. The
Group generated revenues of EUR 62.4 billion in the 2010 financial year -
more than half of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2010).
About Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS)
International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), an integral part of
Deutsche Telekom's International Businesses unit within the Europe
organization, is the global communications enabler of the Deutsche Telekom
Group and more than 700 external customers worldwide. As one of the largest
carriers in the world, ICSS provides global voice communication, Internet
connectivity to millions of eyeballs, and global roaming and messaging on
next generation platforms, as well as smart content distribution, media
exchange, and virtual carrier solutions. The international customers of ICSS
experience seamless service provisioning, including global reach and the
highest quality. The variety of solutions provided by ICSS is based on an
expanding ultramodern infrastructure: Deutsche Telekom's international
network.
For further information, see http://www.telekom-icss.com