Aricent Named to Top Business Lists for 2009

PALO ALTO, CA, Mar 10 (MARKET WIRE) --
Aricent(TM), a global innovation, technology and services company focused
exclusively on communications, today announced that Global Services
Magazine has listed Aricent as a Top 100 Global Services Company. In
addition, DiversityBusiness.com, the nation's leading
business-to-business Internet site, named Aricent as one of the top
businesses in the United States. Both awards demonstrate the increasingly
valuable role the company plays as a strategic supplier to service
providers, equipment manufacturers and independent software vendors around
the world creating innovative communications products, services and
solutions.

Global Services Magazine ranks companies, such as Aricent, based on
responses that fall under four broad categories, which include: size,
customers, skills, delivery capabilities, quality initiatives and
verticals covered.

"The Global Services 100 is like an index of globalization in the services
industry. This year's list comprises companies headquartered in 19
countries, with customer locations in over 30 countries, and service
delivery locations in 31 countries. A company that figures in this list
bears testimony to the fact that it can serve global customers from
multiple locations," says Ed Nair, Editor, Global Services Magazine.

Aricent was also included in DiversityBusiness.com's ninth annual listing
of top United States businesses. This is a classification by
DiversityBusiness.com that represents the top private businesses in the
U.S., in sectors such as technology, manufacturing, food service and
professional services.

"The global communications landscape is experiencing unprecedented change,
and accelerating the need of companies across all industries for
communications expertise, from innovation and design to development and
testing to integration and commercialization," said Sudip Nandy, chief
executive officer of Aricent, Inc. "This recognition by both Global
Services Magazine and DiversityBusiness.com further solidifies Aricent's
global leadership in communications, and we are very proud to receive
these recent accolades."

About Aricent

Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company focused
exclusively on communications. Aricent combines the leading innovation
capabilities of frog design with unparalleled domain expertise in
communications as a strategic supplier to the world's foremost
infrastructure, application and service providers. The company's investors
include Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Sequoia Capital, The Family Office
and Flextronics International Ltd. For more information, visit
www.aricent.com.

About Global Services

Global Services, a media platform by CyberMedia, facilitates the global
service delivery for customers and service providers of IT and
business-process outsourcing services, and provides cost-effective
marketing solutions to the service providers in this industry. A
multishore team spanning the U.S.A. and India drives the Global Services
brand. The Global Services brand is an integrated media platform that
includes the website globalservicesmedia.com and global seminars.

About CyberMedia

CyberMedia, now in its 26th year, is South Asia's first and largest
specialty media house, with fifteen publications (including Dataquest, DQ
Channels and DQ Week, PCQuest, Voice&Data, Global Services and DARE) in
the infotech, telecom, consumer electronics, biotech and entrepreneurship
areas, and is a media value chain including Internet (www.ciol.com),
events and television. The group's media services include market research
(IDC India), job board (CyberMedia Dice), content management, multimedia,
and media education.

CyberMedia also publishes BioSpectrum Asia from Singapore and Global
Services from the U.S.A., the first Indian magazine titles to be published
from outside the country for a global audience.

About DiversityBusiness.com

Launched in 1999, DiversityBusiness, with over 46,000 members, is the
largest organization of diversity owned businesses throughout the United
States that provide goods and services to Fortune 1000 companies,
government agencies, and colleges and universities. DiversityBusiness
provides research and data collection services for diversity including the
"Top 50 Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities," "Top 500
Diversity Owned Companies in America," and others. Its research has been
recognized and published by Forbes Magazine, Business Week and thousands
of other print and internet publications. The site has gained national
recognition and has won numerous awards for its content and design. It is
a leading provider of Supplier Diversity management tools and has the most
widely distributed Diversity magazine in the United States.
DiversityBusiness.com is produced by Computer Consulting Associates
International Inc. (CCAii.com) of Southport, CT. Founded in 1980.

For further information, contact

Steven Manuel
Sr. Director, Corporate Marketing
Aricent
Tel: +1 650 391 1621
Email: Email Contact

Christopher Lalli
Americas: Cohn & Wolfe
Tel: +1 415 365 8540
Email: Email Contact

Paula Muezerie
Europe: AxiCom
Tel: +44 208 392 4081
Email: Email Contact

Shikha Singh Sehrawat
Aricent India: Text 100
Tel: +91 981 175 7369
Email: Email Contact

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