Aricent named to top business lists for 2009

Issued by Cohn & Wolfe for Aricent
Palo Alto, California, 16 Mar 2009

Aricent, a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications, today announced that Global Services Magazine has listed Aricent as a Top 100 Global Services Company.

In addition, DiversityBusiness.com, the nation's leading business-to-business Internet site, named Aricent as one of the top businesses in the United States.

Both awards demonstrate the increasingly valuable role the company plays as a strategic supplier to service providers, equipment manufacturers and independent software vendors around the world, creating innovative communications products, services and solutions.

Global Services Magazine ranks companies, such as Aricent, based on responses that fall under four broad categories, which include: size, customers, skills, delivery capabilities, quality initiatives and verticals covered.

“The Global Services 100 is like an index of globalisation in the services industry. This year's list comprises companies headquartered in 19 countries, with customer locations in over 30 countries, and service delivery locations in 31 countries. A company that figures in this list bears testimony to the fact that it can serve global customers from multiple locations,” says Ed Nair, Editor of Global Services Magazine.

Aricent was also included in DiversityBusiness.com's ninth annual listing of top United States businesses. This is a classification by DiversityBusiness.com that represents the top private businesses in the US, in sectors such as technology, manufacturing, food service and professional services.

“The global communications landscape is experiencing unprecedented change, and accelerating the need of companies across all industries for communications expertise, from innovation and design to development and testing to integration and commercialisation,” said Sudip Nandy, chief executive officer of Aricent. “This recognition by both Global Services Magazine and DiversityBusiness.com further solidifies Aricent's global leadership in communications, and we are very proud to receive these recent accolades.”

Aricent

Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications. Aricent combines the leading innovation capabilities of frog design with unparalleled domain expertise in communications as a strategic supplier to the world's foremost infrastructure, application and service providers. The company's investors include Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, Sequoia Capital, The Family Office and Flextronics International. For more information, visit http://www.aricent.com.

“Aricent has two offices in South Africa, based in Johannesburg and Cape Town.”

Global Services

Global Services, a media platform by CyberMedia, facilitates the global service delivery for customers and service providers of IT and business-process outsourcing services, and provides cost-effective marketing solutions to the service providers in this industry. A multi-shore team spanning the USA and India drives the Global Services brand. The Global Services brand is an integrated media platform that includes the Web site globalservicesmedia.com and global seminars.

CyberMedia

CyberMedia, now in its 26th year, is South Asia's first and largest specialty media house, with fifteen publications (including Dataquest, DQ Channels and DQ Week, PCQuest, Voice&Data, Global Services and DARE) in the infotech, telecom, consumer electronics, biotech and entrepreneurship areas, and is a media value chain, including Internet (www.ciol.com), events and television. The group's media services include market research (IDC India), job board (CyberMedia Dice), content management, multimedia, and media education.

CyberMedia also publishes BioSpectrum Asia from Singapore and Global Services from the USA, the first Indian magazine titles to be published from outside the country for a global audience.

DiversityBusiness.com

Launched in 1999, DiversityBusiness, with over 46 000 members, is the largest organisation of diversity owned businesses throughout the United States that provide goods and services to Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, and colleges and universities. DiversityBusiness provides research and data collection services for diversity, including the "Top 50 Organisations for Multicultural Business Opportunities", "Top 500 Diversity Owned Companies in America", and others. Its research has been recognised and published by Forbes Magazine, Business Week and thousands of other print and Internet publications. The site has gained national recognition and has won numerous awards for its content and design. It is a leading provider of supplier diversity management tools and has the most widely distributed Diversity magazine in the United States. DiversityBusiness.com is produced by Computer Consulting Associates International (CCAii.com) of Southport, CT. Founded in 1980.

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Aricent named to top business lists for 2009

Awards highlight growing global demand for the company's innovative communications expertise.