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Segment reporting
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Disclosure of segment reporting [Abstract]  
Segment reporting
30.
Segment reporting
 
The operating segments of the Group has been reclassified in the Financial Year with effect from April 1, 2021 pursuant to the business reorganization done in the 2020-21 through Business Transfer Agreement (BTA) dated January 28, 2021. Consequently, Group's operating segments are as follows:
 
a.
Network
services
Consists of domestic data, international data, wholesale voice
 
 
b.
 
Data Center Services
Consists of co-location services, cross connects and other allied managed services
 
 
c.
Digital Services
Consists of Cloud and Managed Services, Network Managed Services
 and
 Applications Integration Services
 
Network
 services -
The Network services consist of network services addressing the domestic connectivity needs of Indian enterprises and international inward and outward connectivity needs of International Enterprises. The services include a comprehensive range of Internet protocol based Virtual Private Network, offerings, including intranets, extranets, and remote access applications to both small and large corporate customers. The Group provides MPLS-enabled IP VPN’s through entire network. The Group also provides last mile connectivity to customers.
 
The cable landing station and investment in submarine cable consortium are other assets extended to international partners for international inward and outward connectivity needs. The cable landing station currently lands 2 major submarine cables; namely Gulf Bridge International (GBI) and the Middle Eastern and North African cable (MENA)
 
Data Center services
:  
The Group operates 14 Concurrently Maintainable Data Centers, of which seven are located in Mumbai (Bombay), two each at Noida (Delhi) and Chennai (Madras), one each at Bengaluru, Kolkata and Hyderabad to host mission-critical applications. The Group offers co-location services which allow customers to bring in their own rack-mountable servers and house them in shared racks or hire complete racks and even rent ‘secure cages’ at the hosting facility as per their application requirements. It also offers a wide variety of managed hosting services, such as storage, back-up and restoration, performance monitoring and reporting hardware and software procurement and configuration and network configuration under this business line.
 
Digital services
:
 
The Group offers following services under Digital Services segment:
 
On-demand hosting (cloud) services offer end-customers with the solutions to Enterprises. On-demand cloud services giving companies the option to “pay as you go” basis.
 
Remote and Onsite Infrastructure Management services which provide management and support of customer operating systems, applications, and database layers.
 
Network Operations Center (NOC) services, managed SDWAN and managed Wi-Fi solutions.
 
Data Centre Build, Network Integration, Information security and End User computing.
 
Web-applications which include sales force automation, supply chain management, intranet and extranets, workflow engine and knowledge management systems. 
 
Online portals, such as 
www.sify.com
with content on technology. The Group also offers value-added services to organizations such as website design, development, content management, digital certification services, Online assessment tools, search engine optimization, including domain name management, secure socket layer (SSL) certificate for websites, and server space in required operating system and database. It provides messaging and collaboration services and solutions such as e-mail servers, LAN mail solutions, anti-spam appliances, bulk mail services, instant messaging, and also offer solutions and services to enable data and access security over the Internet, Infrastructure-based services on demand, including on-line testing engine and network management. On-line testing services include test management software, required servers and proctored examination facilities at Sify’s franchisee points. On-line exam engine offered allows a secure and flexible way of conducting examinations involving a wide range of question patterns.
 
The Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”), i.e., The Board of Directors and the senior management, evaluate the Group’s performance and allocate resources to various strategic business units that are identified based on the products and services that they offer and on the basis of the market served. The measure of profit / loss reviewed by the CODM is “Earnings/loss before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization” also referred to as “segment operating income / loss”. Revenue in relation to segments is categorized based on items that are individually identifiable to that segment.
 
Bandwidth costs, which form a significant part of the total expenses, is allocated to Network Services. Manpower costs of Technology resources rendering services to support Infrastructure operations, Managed services and Application services, are identified to respective operating segments specifically. The Group believes that the resulting allocations are reasonable.
 
Certain expenses, such as depreciation, technology infrastructure and administrative overheads, which form a significant component of total expenses, are not allocable to specific segments as the underlying services are used interchangeably. Management believes that it is not practical to provide segment disclosure of these expenses and, accordingly, they are separately disclosed as “unallocated” and adjusted only against the total income of the Group.
 
A significant part of the Property, plant and equipment used in the Group’s business are not identifiable exclusively to any of the reportable segments and can be used interchangeably between segments. Management believes that it is not feasible to provide segment disclosures relating to total assets since a meaningful segregation of the available data is onerous.
 
The Group’s operating segment information for the years ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 are presented below:
 
Year ended March 31, 2025
 
 
 
Network-
Connectivity
Services
 
 
 
 
 
 
Data
Center
Services
 
 
 
 
 
 
Digital Services
 
 
Total
 
 
 
(A)
 
 
(B)
 
 
(C )
 
 
(D) = (A)+(B)+(C)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
External Customers
 
 
15,781,397
 
 
 
14,195,939
 
 
 
9,908,244
 
 
 
39,885,580
 
Intersegment Revenues
 
 
-
 
 
 
87,753
 
 
 
221,461
 
 
 
309,214
 
Operating expenses
 
 
(13,919,660
)
 
 
(7,768,474
)
 
 
(10,611,846
)
 
 
(32,299,980
)
Intersegment Expenses
 
 
(251,796
)
 
 
-
 
 
 
(57,418
)
 
 
(309,214
)
Segment operating income / (loss)
 
 
1,609,941
 
 
 
6,515,218
 
 
 
(539,559
)
 
 
7,585,600
 
Unallocated expenses:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Support Service Unit Costs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(59,723
)
Depreciation and amortization
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(5,633,054
)
Other income / (expense), net
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
551,812
 
Finance income
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12,632
 
Finance expenses
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(2,743,679
)
Profit / (loss) before tax
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(286,412
)
Income tax (expense) / benefit
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(498,546
)
Profit / (loss) for the year
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(784,958
)
 
Year ended March 31, 2024
 
 
 
Network-
Connectivity
Services
 
 
 
 
 
 
Data
Center
Services
 
 
 
 
 
 
Digital Services
 
 
Total
 
 
 
(A)
 
 
(B)
 
 
(C )
 
 
(D) = (A)+(B)+(C)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
External Customers
 
 
14,661,136
 
 
 
11,053,956
 
 
 
9,918,830
 
 
 
35,633,922
 
Intersegment Revenues
 
 
-
 
 
 
87,753
 
 
 
221,461
 
 
 
309,214
 
Operating expenses
 
 
(12,319,398
)
 
 
(6,425,331
)
 
 
(10,104,912
)
 
 
(28,849,641
)
Intersegment Expenses
 
 
(251,796
)
 
 
-
 
 
 
(57,418
)
 
 
(309,214
)
Segment operating income / (loss)
 
 
2,089,942
 
 
 
4,716,378
 
 
 
(22,039
)
 
 
6,784,281
 
Unallocated expenses:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Support Service Unit Costs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9,571
 
Depreciation and amortization
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(4,773,414
)
Other income / (expense), net
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
535,127
 
Finance income
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
108
 
Finance expenses
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(2,203,634
)
Profit / (loss) before tax
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
352,039
 
Income tax (expense) / benefit
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(183,100
)
Profit / (loss) for the year
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
168,939
 
 
Year ended March 31, 2023
 
 
 
Network-
Connectivity
Services
 
 
 
 
 
 
Data
Center
Services
 
 
 
 
 
 
Digital Services
 
 
Total
 
 
 
(A)
 
 
(B)
 
 
(C )
 
 
(D) = (A)+(B)+(C)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
External Customers
 
 
13,290,510
 
 
 
10,125,610
 
 
 
9,987,606
 
 
 
33,403,726
 
Intersegment Revenues
 
 
-
 
 
 
87,749
 
 
 
219,754
 
 
 
307,503
 
Operating expenses
 
 
(11,125,798
)
 
 
(6,085,634
)
 
 
(9,899,113
)
 
 
(27,110,545
)
Intersegment Expenses
 
 
(250,085
)
 
 
-
 
 
 
(57,418
)
 
 
(307,503
)
Segment operating income / (loss)
 
 
1,914,627
 
 
 
4,127,725
 
 
 
250,829
 
 
 
6,293,181
 
Unallocated expenses:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Support Service Unit Costs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2,420
 
Depreciation and amortization
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(3,971,865
)
Other income / (expense), net
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
363,733
 
Finance income
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10,291
 
Finance expenses
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(1,676,739
)
Profit / (loss) before tax
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1,021,021
 
Income tax (expense) / benefit
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(346,499
)
Profit / (loss) for the year
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
674,522
 
 
Geographic segments
 
The Group has two geographic segments India and rest of the world. Revenues from the geographic segments based on domicile of the customer are as follows:
 
Description
 
India
 
 
Rest of the world
 
 
Total
 
Revenues
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Year ended March 31, 2025
 
 
36,849,680
 
 
 
3,035,900
 
 
 
39,885,580
 
Year ended March 31, 2024
 
 
33,304,005
 
 
 
2,329,917
 
 
 
35,633,922
 
Year ended March 31, 2023
 
 
27,349,352
 
 
 
6,054,374
 
 
 
33,403,726
 
 
The Group does not disclose information relating to non-current assets located in India and rest of the world as the necessary information is not available and the cost to develop it would be excessive.
 
During the year under review revenue from one customer of the Group's Data center services segment is ₹ 6,645 million which is more than 10% of the Group's total revenue.