Tata Communications brings Voice Peering to the next level
New peering service enables direct voice traffic exchange between providers
offering a “one stop shop” for all voice solutions
Mumbai, India – September 23, 2009 – Tata Communications, a
leading provider of a new world of communications announced,
today, an enhanced Voice Peering Solution, which enables direct
voice traffic exchange between providers. This unique and turn-key
platform provides easy access to Tata Communications’ network
anywhere in the world, including the choice to use any type of
interconnections, which offers more value and flexibility than the
peering hub offering available today. The voice peering solution also
offers easy access to a complete and shared database of on-net
numbers and access to one of the most advanced intelligent routing
engine. By expanding the pool of on-net users, Tata
Communications’ Voice Peering solution helps deliver immense
value to the service providers, including reduced overhead costs
related with termination and settlement, improved voice quality by
avoiding unnecessary transcoding, and by enabling innovative new
business models that deliver a competitive edge.
Voice peering allows the direct traffic exchange between service
providers that have access to end users. Parties involved unite their
network of end users to create large “on-net” communities. Tata
Communications’ new Voice Peering service provides a simple and
seamless solution for rolling out these new peering relationships,
with end-to-end management to terminate on-net traffic and off-net
traffic to the last mile.

“Voice peering has become a necessity in international traffic
exchange, so Tata Communications has responded by leveraging its
global network to offer this robust and innovative solution, which will
exceed the quality and margin expectations of our customers,” said
Christian Michaud, Senior Vice- President of Marketing and Business
Development for Tata Communications. “With this latest addition to
our global suite of voice services, we are giving our customers an
end-to-end solution to manage their voice peering relationships,
thereby removing the need to manage multiple complex
interconnections, and allowing them to focus on core and value-
added activities. Along with our flexible service options and full range
of complementary services for VoIP, Voice over broadband, web
portal and client-based providers, Tata Communications is
essentially a “one-stop-shop” for all global voice solutions.”
Several important benefits to the customer will be realized with this
new Voice Peering service, specifically in regards to voice quality,
cost efficiencies and the simplification of international traffic
management. Voice quality is enhanced because with Voice
Peering, on-net calls terminate directly to the end-user, thereby
reducing call latency and avoiding multiple compressions and
decompressions. A frequently updated database of subscriber
numbers from suppliers ensures proper call routing. Furthermore,
Voice Peering enables reduced settlement overhead and costs,
increasing the customer’s margin. Finally, routing table’s
management is simplified because Tata Communications provides a
global end-to-end solution, removing the need to build and manage
one-on-one relationships with a peering community.
With over a decade of VoIP experience, Tata Communications has
a global partner network of over 1500 service providers that carry
billions of minutes for mobile, broadband and traditional carriers, on
its state of the art NGN network. With this latest enhancement, Tata
Communications is poised to deliver immediate and tangible value
for all global voice solutions.
For more information on Tata Communications’ Voice Peering service,
please visit www.tatacommunications.com.

About Tata Communications
Tata Communications is a leading global provider of a new world of
communications. With a leadership position in emerging markets,
Tata Communications leverages its advanced solutions capabilities
and domain expertise across its global and pan-India network to
deliver managed solutions to multi-national enterprises, service
providers and Indian consumers.
The Tata Global Network includes one of the most advanced and
largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, with
connectivity to more than 200 countries across 400 PoPs, and nearly
1 million square feet of data center and collocation space worldwide.
Tata Communications’ depth and breadth of reach in emerging
markets includes leadership in Indian enterprise data services,
leadership in global international voice, and strategic investments in
operators in South Africa (Neotel), Sri Lanka (Tata Communications
Lanka Limited), Nepal (United Telecom Limited), and subject to
approval by the Chinese government, China (China Enterprise
Communications)
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)
www.tatacommunications.com