Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Sify Technologies Limited
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:34 PM IST (07:04 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Information technology, Media & entertainment, Telecommunications; Technology
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Sify Technologies Partners with Voxbone to Offer Better Toll Free (TF) and Direct Inward Dialing (DID) Services
Agreement Enables Faster Provisioning of DID Numbers; as low as Within 4 hours
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 -- (Business Wire India) -- Sify Technologies Limited (Nasdaq NM: SIFY), a leader in Managed Enterprise, Network and IT Services in India today announced choosing Voxbone to provide worldwide geographical and toll-free telephone numbers. Voxbone enables Internet communications services providers, global carriers and national operators to extend the reach of their voice services internationally, rapidly and with limited costs.
With the demand for Direct Inward Dialing (DID) and Toll Free (TF) numbers is increasing, swift provisioning of these services has become a differentiator and business imperative for service providers. Voxbone offers a structured user interface which automates the ordering and configuring of Voxbone numbers in real time. Sify Technologies will leverage VoxAPI to provision DID numbers on demand; a task which previously took up to a week.
Voxbone CEO Rod Ullens said Sify Technologies chose Voxbone because of the ease with which they could buy and provision a DID number. "We are very pleased to be working with Sify Technologies in helping Indian companies to establish internal voice and data networks and also expand their international sales and customer care reach through our local numbers," said Mr. Ullens.
"With a growing demand for DID's and TF in the Enterprise space, we believe this association with Voxbone would help us fulfill the end to end Enterprise Voice Solutions demand of the Indian corporate"" said Daniel Alex, Vice President - Alliance and Marketing, Sify technologies Ltd. "The advantage Voxbone gives us is two fold. Their reach across different telecom circles of the globe and the commissioning time for new numbers, both of which impact the bottomline," he added.
About Voxbone
Voxbone is the market leader in providing worldwide geographical, toll-free and iNum® telephone numbers. The company delivers high-quality inbound communications (often referred to as direct inward dialing, or DID) from more than 50 countries and more than 4,000 cities. Voxbone enables Internet communications services providers, global carriers and national operators to extend the reach of their voice services internationally, rapidly and with limited costs. Voxbone is the only operator of its kind with self-owned licenses, telephone number ranges and network infrastructure in its footprint. In 2010, Voxbone's private global VoIP network carried 2.1 billion minutes of voice traffic. The company excels through its quality of service, best-in-industry management tools and regulatory compliance. Voxbone has more than 600 wholesale customers around the globe, including Skype, IDT, Global Crossing, Jajah and Arkadin. Founded in 2005, Voxbone is privately held and has offices in Brussels, Los Angeles and Singapore. For more information, visit www.voxbone.com.
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 600 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 centre 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 Centre operations. 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 Centre (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.
Consumer services include broadband home access and the e-Port cybercafé chain cross more than 200 cities and towns 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 www.sifycorp.com
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The forward-looking statements contained herein are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements. Sify undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements.
For a discussion of the risks associated with Sify's business, please see the discussion under the caption "Risk Factors" in the company's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2010, 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.
CONTACT DETAILS
K. V. Kasturi, Sify Technologies Limited, +91-44-2254-0777 (ext. 2114), kasturi.bashyam@sifycorp.com
Praveen Krishna, Sify Technologies Limited, +91 44 22540777 (extn.2055), praveen.krishna@sifycorp.com
Trúc Nguyen, Grayling Investor Relations, +1-646-284-9400 (ext. 418), truc.nguyen@grayling.com
Mr. Christopher Chu, Grayling Investor Relations, +1-646-284-9400 (ext. 426), christopher.chu@grayling.com
KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, IT, MEDIA, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY
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