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Reader's Digest Uses Global Crossing's Collaboration and Converged IP Services for Increased Productivity
- Collaboration services facilitate communication among best-selling magazine's North American and European divisions.
- Voice and Internet services reliably link numerous locations.
Florham Park, N.J. - August 6, 2007 -- Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC), a leading global IP solutions provider, today announced that Reader's Digest Association, a global publisher and direct marketer of books magazines, music collections and video, is using an array of Global Crossing's collaboration converged IP and voice services to improve internal communications among the company's North American and European locations.
"We chose Global Crossing because of its secure, worldwide IP network, personalized customer support including a dedicated account team and seamless integration of its converged, global communications services," said Robert Gerstle, associate director of network services with Reader's Digest. "Global Crossing's Global 800 and DIA services improve our staff's productivity by giving us instantaneous and constant global reach between our U.S. headquarters in Pleasantville, New York, and our many other interests from Chicago, to Prince Edward Island, to points throughout Europe, Australia and beyond."
Reader's Digest has customers in more than 70 countries and publishes 77 magazines, including 50 local-country editions of its flagship, Reader's Digest, the world's most widely read magazine. In addition to travel and related cost savings, Reader's Digest turned to Global Crossing's converged communications services to help increase its staff's productivity through more effective meetings. To facilitate communications among Reader's Digest's many global locations, the publication is using Global Crossing Ready-Access® audio collaboration service, Global "800" Service, Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) and long-distance voice services.
"Global Crossing's collaboration and converged IP services provide multinational enterprises such as Reader's Digest with the tools they need to efficiently share information, any time and anywhere," said Dan Wagner, Global Crossing's executive vice president of enterprise and collaboration services. "The competitive edge we give our customers is why our worldwide collaboration traffic increased by more than 35 percent last year - triple the industry average."
Global Crossing's collaboration services bring geographically dispersed teams together and offers enterprises a full suite of converged IP collaboration services for virtually any meeting need. Audio conferencing services include Ready-Access, Global "800" Service, VoIP Ready-Access, Event Call, Event Express Call and Automated Event Call. Customers around the world can connect to Global Crossing's audio collaboration platform using a mix of toll-free and local access methods. Web conferencing services include Ready-Access Web Meeting, eMeeting and Live Meeting powered by Microsoft. Videoconferencing services include iVideoconferencing, IP Video, Ready-Access Video, and Video Endpoint Management Service supporting both ISDN and IP-based end points.
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 320 cities in 31 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 data, voice and security products to approximately 40 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs. Its Professional Services and Managed Solutions provide VoIP, security and network consulting and management services to support its Global Crossing IP VPN service and Global Crossing VoIP services. Global Crossing was the first -- and remains the only -- global communications provider with IPv6 natively deployed in both its private and public backbone networks.
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