ARICENT Overview

Aricent Overview

The Aricent Idea: 2006

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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

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Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications

Strategic supplier of communications expertise 9000+ employees, offices in 19 countries Corporate Office in Palo Alto, CA Investors include KKR, Sequoia Capital, The Family Office and CPP

Revenues($M USD)

$238$297

$382

$465

CAGR25%

FY ‘06 FY ‘07 FY ‘08 FY ‘09

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Established Leadership in $9B Market

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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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to the network core

From complex applications

What We Do

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Aricent’s Unique Process for Delivering Communications Innovation

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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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• Creation of concept devices and new experiences

• New application development• Hardware testing

• Networking and signaling• New application

development• Testing services

• Creation of new service concepts

• Integration of billing and operational systems

Services

EXAMPLES

Equipment Manufacturers Device Manufacturers Service Providers

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Packet networks/ VoIP

IMS, SIP, H.248, MGCP, VoWiFi, Interworking

DSPVideo and Voice Processing, Audio/Video Codecs, Network Processor Application, Microcode Design

Mobile Handsets

User Interface, Multimedia Applications, Physical Layer, Middleware, Multiple OS & Platforms, DSP

Platform Engineering

ATCA, Network Processors

Wireless

GSM, GPRS/EDGE, 3G, WCDMA, CDMA2000, WiMAX, UMA, HSPA, Femtocell/Picocell, LTE

Billing & OSSMulti-vendor Billing, OSS Integration, Service Activation, OSS/BSS Business Process Re-eng, Fraud Management, Mediation, Workforce Automation

Communication ApplicationsMessaging, Location Based Services, Voice Applications, Unified Communications, Advertising

Transmission

SONET/SDH, RPR, DWDM

Data Communications

Routers, VPN and QoS, ATM, IP, MPLS, GigE, Carrier/Metro Ethernet

Broadband & Wireless Access

xDSL, Satellite, Cable, 802.11a/b/g/i

Signaling

ISDN, SS7 & SIGTRAN

Network Management

TL1, SNMP, CORBA & CLI

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Depth and Breadth of Expertise

9,000+ employeeswith expertise in all major

communications categories

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MAINTENCE & PRODUCT SUPPORToComplete product ownershipoHardware redesignoSustaining engineeringoNew feature developmento TACo Innovative business models

9000+ employees with design, development and deployment expertise in all major communications domains

DEVICE & USER EXPERIENCESoUI Design oNP integrationoMultimedia middlewareoMultiple OS platformsoApplication integrationoIOT

FIXED & WIRLESS NETWORKSo2G / 3G / LTEoFemtocell & WiMAXoIMS / SIP / VoIP oIPv4/v6 & MPLSoAdvanced EthernetoDWDM, SONET, ATMoSecurity & DPIoSS7, ISDN, SIGTRAN

SERVICES & APPLICATIONSoRich media & messagingoUser, location and applications awareo3rd party: SaaS, mash ups, ads, search, maps & more

Aricent’s Deep Domain Expertise: OEM

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DEVICE & USER EXPERIENCESoUI Design oNP integrationoMultimedia middlewareoMultiple OS platformsoApplication integrationoIOT

FIXED & WIRLESS NETWORKSo2G / 3G / LTEoFemtocell & WiMAXoIMS / SIP / VoIP oIPv4/v6 & MPLSoAdvanced EthernetoDWDM, SONET, ATMoSecurity & DPIoSS7, ISDN, SIGTRAN

SERVICES & APPLICATIONSoRich media & messagingoUser, location and applications awareo3rd party: SaaS, Ads, search, maps & more

NMS, OPERATIONS & BUSINESS SYSTEMSoTL1, SNMP, CORBA, CLAoVendor neutral OSS / BSS SI oService activationoBusiness process re-engineeringoFraud managementoMediationoWorkforce automation

9000+ employees with design, development and deployment expertise in all major communications domains

Aricent’s Deep Domain Expertise: Service Provider

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13Comprehensive Products and Frameworks

» 3G» Voice over IP» IP Multimedia » Switching and

routing» Networking

protocols» LTE» WiMAX

» Consumer &

enterprise applications

» Middleware» Multimedia codecs

» Content delivery» Billing mediation

platform» Service activation

platform» Workforce

management

Equipment Manufacturers Device Manufacturers Service Providers

• 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

Aricent has a global delivery model with offshore development centers in destinations around the world.

Vietnam

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Aricent’s Customers*

Infrastructure Service ProvidersApplications & Devices

* Some Tier 1 customers not shown due to promotional restrictions

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Quality Management Systems

ISO 9001 1996

SEI CMM Level 42000

BS7799/ISO27001Information Security

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CMMI Level 5 2003

TL 9000 2005

CMMI Level 5(version 1.2 upgrade)

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CLIENT PARTNERS

TECHNOLOGY

Independent Quality team collaborates with each of our client partners in modeling and managing

processes to best suit the client’s business needs

Independent Quality team collaborates with each of our client partners in modeling and managing

processes to best suit the client’s business needs

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World's best management and development processes successfully implemented in the telecom industry

High-quality products and solutions in a reliable, timely and consistent manner

High performance, scalable solutionsEnhanced operational efficiency, productivity improvement

World's best management and development processes successfully implemented in the telecom industry

High-quality products and solutions in a reliable, timely and consistent manner

High performance, scalable solutionsEnhanced operational efficiency, productivity improvement

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.

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.

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Quality @ Aricent

Customer Satisfaction Y-o-Y Growth

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Quest Forum – Sep 2008 – Denver, US:

“Health Index for Maintenance Projects”

STC’08 – Nov 2008 – Bangalore, India:

“Test End Date Prediction using Monte-Carlo

Simulation”

SEPG-Europe – Jun 2009 – Prague, Czech:

“Measurement and Analysis – A key to

success”

Best Practices on Quality and Project Management presented by Aricent in

various international forums

More than 90% of our customers have indicated their willingness to recommend Aricent

Two-thirds of our customers find Aricent’s Services better with respect to services rendered by other

competitors

More than 90% of our customers have indicated their willingness to recommend Aricent

Two-thirds of our customers find Aricent’s Services better with respect to services rendered by other

competitors

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•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

Recent Awards and Industry Recognitions

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• 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

Awards and Recognitions … Contd.

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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

Workplace Excellence

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