ARICENT Overview

The Aricent Idea: 2006

Service the global cross-industry

need for communications expertise

 KKKR & Sequoia purchase select assets from Flextronics to capitalize on

the global communications revolution
 AAddress growing demand for communications domain expertise,
innovation, technology and services
 CCreate a fundamentally unique combination of assets, skills and scale

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Aricent Today
CAGR
Revenues 25%
($M USD) $465
Aricent is a global innovation, $382
technology and services $297
company focused exclusively on $238
communications

FY ‘06 FY ‘07 FY ‘08 FY ‘09

 Strategic supplier of communications expertise

 10,000 employees, offices in 19 countries
 Corporate Office in New Jersey, US
 Investors include KKR, Sequoia Capital, The Family Office and CPP

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Established Leadership in $9B Market

 Significant industry recognition for innovation, technology and services

 $9B market for CSP, VAS and OEM alone, solving highly complex new SI and
R&D challenges
 Ranked #1 in Telecom R&D Services globally

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What We Do
Aricent co-creates, along with its customers, the world‟s most
innovative products and services

From strategy to implementation

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 What We Do

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 What We Do

From complex
applications

to the
network core

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Aricent’s Unique Process for Delivering Communications Innovation

Strategy, Design and Engineering work in seamless

collaboration to deliver innovation to market faster,
and in higher fidelity

Discovery Design Development Deployment Maintenance

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Services

EXAMPLES

Equipment Manufacturers Device Manufacturers Service Providers

• Networking and signaling • Creation of concept • Creation of new service
• New application devices and new experiences concepts
development • New application development • Integration of billing and
• Testing services • Hardware testing operational systems

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Depth and Breadth of Expertise

Wireless Data Signaling Packet networks/

Communications VoIP
GSM, GPRS/EDGE, 3G, WCDMA, ISDN, SS7 & SIGTRAN
Routers, VPN and QoS, ATM, IP, IMS, SIP, H.248, MGCP, VoWiFi,
CDMA2000, WiMAX, UMA, HSPA,
MPLS, GigE, Carrier/Metro Interworking
Femtocell/Picocell, LTE
Ethernet

Platform Communication
Engineering Applications
ATCA, Network Processors
10,000 employees Messaging, Location Based Services,
Voice Applications, Unified
with expertise in all major Communications, Advertising

Mobile Handsets communications Billing & OSS

categories
Multi-vendor Billing, OSS Integration,
User Interface, Multimedia Service Activation, OSS/BSS
Applications, Physical Layer, Business Process Re-eng, Fraud
Middleware, Multiple OS & Management, Mediation, Workforce
Platforms, DSP Automation

DSP Broadband & Network Transmission

Video and Voice Processing,
Audio/Video Codecs, Network
Processor Application, Microcode
Design
Wireless Access Management
xDSL, Satellite, Cable, TL1, SNMP, CORBA & CLI SONET/SDH, RPR, DWDM
802.11a/b/g/i

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Aricent’s Deep Domain Expertise: OEM

10,000 employees with design,

development and deployment
expertise in all major
communications domains

DEVICE & USER FIXED & WIRLESS SERVICES & MAINTENCE & PRODUCT
EXPERIENCES NETWORKS APPLICATIONS SUPPORT
oUI Design o2G / 3G / LTE oRich media & messaging oComplete product ownership
oNP integration oFemtocell & WiMAX o User, location and oHardware redesign
oMultimedia middleware oIMS / SIP / VoIP applications aware oSustaining engineering
oMultiple OS platforms oIPv4/v6 & MPLS o 3rd party: SaaS, mash ups, oNew feature development
oApplication integration oAdvanced Ethernet ads, search, maps & more o TAC
oIOT oDWDM, SONET, ATM o Innovative business models
oSecurity & DPI
oSS7, ISDN, SIGTRAN

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Aricent’s Deep Domain Expertise: Service Provider

10,000 employees with design,

development and deployment
expertise in all major
communications domains

DEVICE & USER FIXED & WIRLESS SERVICES & NMS, OPERATIONS &
EXPERIENCES NETWORKS APPLICATIONS BUSINESS SYSTEMS
oUI Design o2G / 3G / LTE oRich media & messaging oTL1, SNMP, CORBA, CLA
oNP integration oFemtocell & WiMAX o User, location and oVendor neutral OSS / BSS SI
oMultimedia middleware oIMS / SIP / VoIP applications aware oService activation
oMultiple OS platforms oIPv4/v6 & MPLS o 3rd party: SaaS, Ads, o Business process re-
oApplication integration oAdvanced Ethernet search, maps & more engineering
oIOT oDWDM, SONET, ATM o Fraud management
oSecurity & DPI o Mediation
oSS7, ISDN, SIGTRAN o Workforce automation

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Comprehensive Products and Frameworks 13

Equipment Manufacturers Device Manufacturers Service Providers

» 3G » Consumer & » Content delivery

» Voice over IP enterprise » Billing mediation
» IP Multimedia
applications platform
» Middleware » Service activation
» Switching and
routing » Multimedia codecs platform
» Networking » Workforce
protocols management
» LTE
» WiMAX
• 125+ licensable products
• 7,200+ person years of development
• Simplifies complexity, speeds development
and reduces costs
• Typically combined with Aricent’s Lifecycle
Service Portfolio

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Sophisticated Global Delivery Model

Vietnam

Aricent has a global delivery model with offshore development centers in

destinations around the world.

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Aricent’s Customers*

Applications & Devices Infrastructure Service Providers

* Some Tier 1 customers not shown due to promotional restrictions

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 Quality Management Systems
Aricent’s design and development processes are amongst
the very best in the world, enabling it to deliver on-time
and error free products and solutions all the time.
Independent Quality team collaborates with each
of our client partners in modeling and managing
processes to best suit the client’s business needs

CMMI Level 5 2008

(version 1.2 upgrade)

TL 9000 2005

2003
CMMI Level 5
BS7799/ISO27001 2001
Information Security PEOPLE
2000
SEI CMM Level 4
CLIENT
9001 ISO 9001 1996 PARTNERS

PROCESS TECHNOLOGY
World's best management and
development processes successfully
Aricent Value
Proposition

implemented in the telecom industry

High-quality products and solutions in a ISO 9001
reliable, timely and consistent manner
High performance, scalable solutions TL9000
Enhanced operational efficiency,
productivity improvement

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 Quality @ Aricent

Customer Satisfaction Y-o-Y Growth

Customer Satisfaction Rating

16% Best Practices on Quality and Project

1% 15% Management presented by Aricent in
various international forums

Quest Forum – Sep 2008 – Denver, US:

“Health Index for Maintenance Projects”
2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
STC’08 – Nov 2008 – Bangalore, India:
“Test End Date Prediction using Monte-Carlo
Simulation”
More than 90% of our customers have indicated their SEPG-Europe – Jun 2009 – Prague, Czech:
willingness to recommend Aricent
“Measurement and Analysis – A key to
Two-thirds of our customers find Aricent’s Services
better with respect to services rendered by other success”
competitors

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Recent Awards and Industry Recognitions

•Ranked # 1 Global Telecom R&D Services provider by Zinnov – 2009

•TMC 4GWE LTE Visionary of the Year Award – 2009

• 4G WE Product of The Year Award for Media EXP – 2009

• CIO 100 Ingenious Award - 2009

•Aberdeen group - Excellence in Marketing and Sales Alignment: - Aricent

•Top 10 Export companies 2008-09 – NASSCOM - 2009

•Top 20 companies by growth 2008-09 NASSCOM - 2009

•Top 25 companies in DQ top 50 survey - 2009

•TMC.net - Product of the year award - 2008

•Rated amongst the Top 100 companies in the information week Top 500 - 2009

•Rated amongst the Global Services top 100 companies - 2009

•CellTop - Best in Show at 2007 Emerging Technology Awards at CTIA

•CellTop - People‟s choice Award at Qualcomm Brew 2007 Developer Conference

•CellTop - Best Business/Productivity Application Award at Qualcomm Brew 2007 Developer

Conference

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 Awards and Recognitions … Contd.
• One of the „Top 10 Best Places to Work For‟ in the Mercer - Business Today Survey in
2004
• Among the „Top 25 Great Places to Work ‟ survey by Great Places Institute and
Businessworld in 2004.
• Received the prestigious „DMA-Watson Wyatt Award‟ for Excellence in Innovative
Human Resources (HR) practices in 2004-05
• Awarded „The Information Security Strategist of the Year‟ Award in IT and ITES
category instituted by Network magazine.
• CTO of the Year award for 2005 in the IT/ITES/BPO category by Network Computing
magazine
• Awarded the 2007 „Europe Company of the Year‟ by Frost & Sullivan
• “The fastest growing company in India” - Nasscom survey 2007
• Ranked No. 5th amongst the “Top Telecom Software Companies” - V&D Top 100
Survey 2007

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Workplace Excellence
 One of the most preferred software companies to work for
– Provides world class work environment
– Excellent opportunities to learn and grow
 Talented team
– Some of the best people in the industry work at Aricent
– Possesses one of the finest skill sets in
• Protocol/Signaling Systems , Real Time Embedded Software,
Network Management, Intelligent Networks, Mobile, Internet etc
 Great Culture and Tradition
– Openness, fun, flexibility, work-life balance
– Traditions like QSMs, various awards through “Applause” etc
– Lecture series, „Appreciation Week‟, „Aricent ICON‟ Awards

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 Co-creating, along with our customers, the world’s
most innovative products and services

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