Cochin offers unbeatable advantages for the IT Sector.  
It is rich in bandwidth. Cochin's VSNL Gateway has 15 Gbps capacity as well as a GSR for high speed transmission.

This Gateway Exchange has both Satellite and Submarine Cable links. Both "SEA-ME-WE3" and "SAFE" International sub-sea cables have landing points in Cochin. This provides direct connectivity to 69 countries.
Cochin has therefore, the cheapest bandwidth in India.
 

VSNL, is an international telecommunications service provider, and they offers international telephony, IPLCs, Internet services, frame relay services and all other managed data services, and Inmarsat services.
VSNL, Cochin is less than 1 km away from the Zone as the crow flies. VSNL operates a facility in the Zone, offering global connectivity support to Zone units through OFC at low entry costs.  
The Zone provides power from 25 MVA substation through underground cables and RMUs. The power is sourced from two 110 KV systems that form the power system backbone of Kerala, so that not only is the power of good quality, it is reliable to a large degree.
 

NASSCOM has rated Cochin among the top two locations in India for bandwidth-intensive, IT Enabled Services. 
 

Trained manpower is available in Cochin at 40% of the wages rate in the other metros. 
A new Software Park, TECHNOPOLIS, is being developed exclusively for the sector and will be ready in April 2006. 
 

More than a third of the exports from Cochin SEZ are from the electronic hardware sector. The on-site Customs clearances available round-the-clock, and the connections from the seaport and airport make the Zone a natural choice for the hardware sector. MAIT rates Cochin as one of the top 20 destinations for hardware operations in India.