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Global Crossing's Next Generation IP Network Primed for Accelerating IP Traffic Growth
- Features an IP Supercore platform that more than quadruples capacity.
- Delivers core capacity of multiple 10-Gbps circuits, scalable to 40 Gbps.
- Addresses explosive customer demand for converged IP services.
Florham Park, NJ - June 6, 2006 -- Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) announced today that it has more than quadrupled the capacity of its global IP network backbone to support the growing customer demand for bandwidth-intensive applications and converged IP services. It has implemented a core network architecture that has more than quadrupled its PoP-to-PoP core capacity capability to multiple 10-Gbps speeds, while providing a Terabit-capable hub that enables an on-demand migration path for speeds up to OC-768.
"We're responding to the market shift toward services that give customers an enhanced experience -- services such as video streaming, music and video downloads, IP-TV and other large applications," said John Legere, Global Crossing's chief executive officer. "Our IP Supercore platform enables us to meet today's explosive demands for more bandwidth and future applications. Our overall IP traffic, which includes sustained growth for our converge IP services like VoIP, IP VPN and IP video, carried on our global IP backbone increased 65 percent last year, far outpacing the industry average."
As a leading enabler of IP convergence, Global Crossing has accelerated the ramp of converged IP services. In the first quarter of 2006, it recorded a 280 percent year-over-year growth in IP VPN traffic, driven by an increasing number of customers using a converged IP solution for multiple applications, including VoIP, IP video and data.
According to TeleGeography Research, the rate of growth for global IP traffic at an industry level increased 49 percent between 2004 and 2005. Global Crossing experienced IP traffic growth of 65 percent on its global IP backbone in 2005. The pace continued to accelerate during the first quarter of 2006 as the company recorded its fastest growth in a single quarter since 2003.
"We're observing increasing demand for IP-based applications in the global telecommunications market," stated Alan Mauldin, senior analyst at TeleGeography Research. "Global Crossing's IP Supercore network upgrade is evidence that the company is investing in IP core infrastructure to meet this increasing demand."
The IP Supercore platform enables Global Crossing to meet the rise in demand for 10-Gigabit Ethernet services from its carrier and enterprise customers. As part of its enhanced infrastructure, Global Crossing is supplementing the core functionality of its MPLS-network backbone with Juniper Networks T-640 routing platforms. Immediate benefits to customers include a core architecture that can significantly expand beyond 10-Gbps capacity without the delays caused by forklift upgrades. Customers can be confident that Global Crossing's core infrastructure will accommodate not only their immediate high-capacity needs, but future growth on a global basis.
"We're increasing our IP backbone capacity and functionality to meet our enterprise and carrier customers' needs," explained Dan Enright, Global Crossing's executive vice president global operations. "Our IP Supercore platform gives us high-performance, 10-Gbps capability, which supports our customers' growing appetite for delivery of bandwidth-intensive IP applications."
Global Crossing's advanced fiber-optic MPLS-te network is the platform of choice for converged IP services including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) and IP video. The company's suite of solutions is designed to meet the exacting performance and reliability requirements of its customers and partners around the world.
In addition to consistently delivering 99.999-percent availability -- the industry's highest standard -- Global Crossing recently made network performance history when its multi-gigabit fiber-optic network supported the world record in international visualization, a 19.5-Gbps stream between Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and San Diego, California, carrying a single application showing actual scientific content.
ABOUT GLOBAL CROSSING
Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) provides telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core network connects more than 300 cities in 28 countries worldwide, and delivers services to more than 600 cities in 60 countries and 6 continents around the globe. The company's global sales and support model matches the network footprint and, like the network, delivers a consistent customer experience worldwide.
Global Crossing IP services are global in scale, linking the world's enterprises, governments and carriers with customers, employees and partners worldwide in a secure environment that is ideally suited for IP-based business applications, allowing e-commerce to thrive. The company offers a full range of managed data and voice products including Global Crossing IP VPN Service, Global Crossing Managed Services and Global Crossing VoIP services, to 36 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs.
Please visit www.globalcrossing.com for more information about Global Crossing.
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Statements in this press release about expected future events and financial results are forward-looking and subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially, including risks referenced from time to time in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Global Crossing undertakes no duty to update information contained in this press release or in other public disclosures at any time.
CONTACT GLOBAL CROSSING:
Press Contact
Scott Gardiner
+ 1 973 937 0430
PR@globalcrossing.com
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+ 1 800 836 0342
glbc@globalcrossing.com
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