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Tata Communications Announces Expansion of Data Centre Services With Launch of Tier-3 Data Centre in EMEA Market

Posted on: Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 07:30 CST

LONDON, February 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications, announces it plans for London 2, a Tier-3 data centre, that will provide a state-of-the-art environment for supporting mission critical infrastructures, with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that Tata Communications client's critical systems and applications are readily available while optimizing energy efficiency. The 21,400 square foot London 2 data centre will be ready for service during the second quarter of 2009.

Tata Communications has seen a dramatic growth in the number of UK companies looking to outsource their hosted IT operations as they look to rationalise costs and free up capital. Increasingly, the lack of power in the City of London has seen many firms seek to move operations outside the M25 and into a managed service environment to lower their cost of ownership, improve performance and reduce downtime of their IT investment. Moreover, a shift to an Opex-based hosting model by selectively outsourcing their IT infrastructure to an experienced services provider such as Tata Communications can achieve rapid cost savings.

Tata Communications will offer its full suite of data centre services including colocation, managed hosting and managed storage services, in addition to related and complementary value-added services. The company's data centre operations and services are monitored and managed on-site and remotely, from its centralized Managed Services Operations Centre (MSOC) on a 24x7x365 basis and by a team of highly experienced technical, communications and facilities staff. Tata Communications is ISO/IEC 14001, 20000 and 27001 certified for its Global Managed Services Operations in the areas of Managed Hosting, Managed Storage Services and Hosted Messaging Services. The London 2 data centre will reside on Tata Communications Tier-1 IP backbone from which it can provide high capacity Internet, MPLS and Ethernet services globally.

"Tata Communications has seen a rapid increase in demand for managed IT infrastructure services in the EMEA region, driven in part by rationalising IT budgets and companies looking to outsource their data centre operations and achieve greater cost and resource efficiencies," said Abid Qadiri, Vice President of Data Centre Services for Tata Communications. "As the availability of highly secure Tier-3 data centre space is limited, we are pleased to bring this state-of-the-art facility to the market."

Located 25 miles from London, the highly secure data centre facility was built by Digital Realty Trust, the world's largest wholesale data centre provider, and contains two individually segregated, maintainable data halls that receive six megawatts of power from diversely routed supplies. As Tata Communications third data centre opened in the UK, London 2 brings the company's total data centre footprint in the region to over 50,000 square feet. The company owns and operates data centres on three continents totalling nearly one million square feet of space.

On February 12, Tata Communications' announced plans to invest USD $180 million in development of data centre and associated services in Singapore, (http://www.tatacommunications.com/news/release-view.asp?d=20090212- investment) scheduled to open in 2010. (Due to the length of this URL, it may be necessary to copy and paste this hyperlink into your Internet browser's URL address field. Remove the space if one exists.) The addition of London 2 and the Singapore data centre are part of the global expansion to address demands of enterprise customers worldwide, while supporting Tata Communications' commitment to invest more than $2 billion to further fuel global expansion plans.

For further information on Tata Communications Data Centre Solutions and facilities visit http://www.tatacommunications.com/enterprise/datacenter.

About Tata Communications

Tata Communications, a member of the $62.5 billion Tata Group, is a leading global provider of a new world of communications. The emerging markets communications leader leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its global and pan-India network to deliver managed solutions to multi-national and Indian enterprises, service providers and Indian consumers.

Tata Communications' range of services include transmission, IP, converged voice, mobility, managed network connectivity, hosting and storage, managed security, managed collaboration and business transformation for global enterprises and service providers, as well as Internet, retail broadband and content services for Indian consumers. The Tata Global Network encompasses one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, with connectivity to more than 200 countries across 300 Pops, and more than 1 million square feet of data centre and colocation facilities.

Tata Communications' unique emerging market depth and breadth of reach includes a national fiber backbone network and access to network in over 60 cities and 125 Pops in India, strategic investments in South African converged services operator, Neotel, Sri Lanka and Nepal and, subject to fulfilment of conditions precedent, a 50% ownership in China Enterprise Communications (CEC) providing full country VPN coverage in China.

Servicing customers from its offices in over 80 cities in 40 countries, Tata Communications is the number one global international wholesale voice operator and number one provider of international long distance, enterprise data and Internet services in India, the Company was named "Best Wholesale Carrier" at the World Communications Awards in 2006, "Best Pan-Asian Wholesale Provider" at the 2006 and 2007 Capacity Magazine Global Wholesale Telecommunications Awards and was awarded "Best Progress in Emerging Markets" at the 2008 Mobile Communication Awards.

Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India and its ADRs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. (NYSE: TCL)

Forward-looking and cautionary statements

Certain words and statements in this release concerning Tata Communications and its prospects, and other statements, including those relating to Tata Communications' expected financial position, business strategy, the future development of Tata Communications' operations, and the general economy in India, are forward-looking statements. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including financial, regulatory and environmental, as well as those relating to industry growth and trend projections, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements of Tata Communications, or industry results, to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The important factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from such forward-looking statements include, among others, failure to increase the volume of traffic on Tata Communications' network; failure to develop new products and services that meet customer demands and generate acceptable margins; failure to successfully complete commercial testing of new technology and information systems to support new products and services, including voice transmission services; failure to stabilize or reduce the rate of price compression on certain of the company's communications services; failure to integrate strategic acquisitions and changes in government policies or regulations of India and, in particular, changes relating to the administration of Tata Communications' industry; and, in general, the economic, business and credit conditions in India. Additional factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from such forward-looking statements, many of which are not in Tata Communications' control, include, but are not limited to, those risk factors discussed in Tata Communications' various filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings are available at http://www.sec.gov. Tata Communications is under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims any obligation to, update or alter its forward-looking statements.

SOURCE Tata Communications Limited

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