Chicago: Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of communications, and Arbor Networks, a leading provider of secure service control solutions for global business networks, were honoured with Most Innovative Managed Service Award for managed DDoS detection and mitigation services at the 2008 Telephony Innovation Award at a ceremony in Chicago. 

“Tata Communications is very pleased that Telephony recognises the value that our unique global network-based managed DDOS detection and mitigation service offers to customers who own 'at-risk' internet facilities anywhere in the world." said John Landau, senior vice president, Global Managed Services, Tata Communications. "Arbor Networks is our partner providing the best-in-class underlying technology that enables this service, one of the flagship offers in the Tata Communications managed security services portfolio."

Tata Communications’ DDoS detection and mitigation security services provide a fully integrated solution for global, real time application-layer analysis of the IP traffic traversing across the Tata Communications global IP backbone. The services monitor and analyse customer traffic in real time and on a 24x7x365 basis. The service provides proactive notification of actionable events, helping improve Tata Communications’ customer’s visibility into the security and availability of their network. In the event of DDOS attack, the service puts the endangered traffic through a nearby high bandwidth Arbor TMS "scrubber" that in real time identifies and removes the attack traffic and allows the normal traffic to proceed.

“The judges selected Tata Communications’ network-based security services because of the comprehensive nature of the protection they provide,” said Carol Wilson, editor-in-chief of Telephony. “We offer a managed service award in recognition of the fact that business customers are increasingly looking to telecom service providers to handle more of their problems on a managed-service basis, within the telecom network. This is an excellent example of just such a service – business security problems are addressed in the network before they can hit the enterprise and consume its resources. Enterprises don’t have to develop the expertise to provide this kind of protection.”

In addition to protection against security threats, Tata Communications is utilising Arbor Peakflow SP for addressing network issues such as traffic and routing instability. “Security services are of utmost concern for global communications and information providers, especially in the current market,” said Rob Malan, Arbor Networks co-founder and chief technology officer. “Arbor Networks is honored to be recognised with Tata Communications as a recipient of this award.” 

Telephony’s Innovation Awards, now in its second year, recognise service providers who have developed unique or first-to-market offerings that either utilize technology or address customers’ needs in a new way. The innovation can come in almost any form–design, delivery, pricing, bundling, packaging or customer service.

About the Telephony Innovation Awards
Telephony’s Innovation awards are in their second year of recognising creative service creation and deployment in the telecom service provider space. The awards are open to all service providers including telecom and cable companies, wireless service providers, managed and hosted service providers, ISPs and applications service providers. The awards are judged by members of Telephony’s editorial staff and by guest judges. This year’s guest judging panel included Daniel Briere, CEO of TeleChoice, Vince Vittore, program manager with the Yankee Group and Cindy Whelan, analyst with Current Analysis.

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 www.sec.gov. Tata Communications is under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims any obligation to, updates or alters its forward-looking statements.