Tulip Telecom Teams with Polycom to Offer High Definition Managed Video Conferencing Solutions in India

March XX, 2012, New Delhi: Tulip Telecom Ltd. (Tulip), India's leading Enterprise Data Services provider, today announced it will work in collaboration with Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions, in India, to offer a High Definition Managed Video Conferencing solution to Indian businesses on a hosted model. The solution is a pure cloud-based service and is targeted primarily at the large and medium enterprises offering complete scalability and interoperability.

Tulip will offer video conferencing and telepresence services to its customers on a hosted model, where businesses can leverage high-end, telco-grade infrastructure hosted by Tulip in its data centres. Users can use the technology with minimal upfront cost on a 'pay-as-you-use' model, making it an extremely scalable service.

The voice and video communications industries are currently witnessing enormous growth and momentum with more and more organisations adopting cloud-based services, which calls for a reduced complexity in video infrastructure so that service providers can build scalable and inexpensive video networks. Tulip is continuously working towards enhancing the use of unified communications in India, including cloud-based services, and to support the industry-based Open Visual Communications Consortium™ (OVCC™), which consists of a group of global video exchange providers, network providers and equipment manufacturers that have united to expand video communications and simplify video calls.With the increased adoption of video conferencing solutions locally, India will be a significant market for video conferencing solutions globally. In addition to large enterprises, small and medium enterprises are also looking to adopt video conferencing solutions as networks are becoming increasingly scalable.

Commenting on this alliance, Sukhmani Bedi, Director - Product Management, Tulip Telecom,said: "We are delighted to be working with Polycom to offer high definition video conferencing solutions to our customers in India. This collaboration is in line with our commitment to offer world class services to our enterprise customers and strengthen our position as an enterprise data services player." She further added, "Enterprises will continue to adopt a blend of cloud and premise based approaches to meet their UC needs, and Tulip is best positioned to address that market and offers its customers one window for all their data services needs."

Mr. Neeraj Gill, Managing Director, India & SAARC for Polycom,said: "Polycom is focused towards enhancing the adoption of unified communications and visual collaboration across the enterprise. We are pleased to be offering this high-definition managed video conferencing solution in collaboration with Tulip, which provides several advantages to customers designed to help reduce the entry barrier for the adoption of visual communication solutions, and further reiterates our commitment to bring the most advanced and innovative unified communications solutions to market."

Tulip's next generation video conferencing provide companies an edge to collaborate with their employees, business partners, suppliers, distributors, customers and other teams across geographies. The company delivers various technology solutions including advanced IP routing and switching, IP telephony, Voice over IP, Video conferencing and telepresence. Tulip provides point-to-point and point-to-multipoint video conferencing across the country. The high-definition managed video conferencing service helps in driving down the operational cost for our users to a substantial level by reducing the travel costs of employees which further results in boosting the productivity of an organisation.

About Tulip Telecom

Tulip Telecom Ltd. (BSE: 532691/NSE: TULIP) is India's leading Enterprise Communications Service provider. The Company's data network has the largest reach of over 2,000 locations globally. The Company has a global presence with over 3,250 employees and more than 2,400 customers. Tulip designs, implements and manages communication networks of large enterprises on long term contracts to include enterprise communications connectivity, network integration, managed and value added services.

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