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Global Crossing Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine's 2007 Product of the Year Award
Global Crossing VoIP Ready-Access Recognized for Outstanding Innovation
Florham Park, N.J. - February 4, 2008 -- Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC), a leading global IP solutions provider, today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com) has recognized Global Crossing VoIP Ready-Access® with its 2007 Product of the Year Award.
INTERNET TELEPHONY honors the most innovative products by bestowing this prestigious award to deserving companies. The editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY selected the winning companies based on their evaluation of vision, leadership and attention to detail.
VoIP Ready-Access brings together Global Crossing's industry-leading enterprise Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services portfolio with its flagship reservationless, on-demand audio collaboration service - through an on-net private dialing plan - to deliver a fully-integrated and managed audio and Web conferencing collaboration solution. This provides an efficient and convenient way to combine the value and ease of an on-demand audio conferencing service with the cost savings of VoIP.
"We're honored that INTERNET TELEPHONY has recognized VoIP Ready-Access," said Gary Breauninger, Global Crossing's chief marketing officer. "Global Crossing VoIP Ready-Access brings geographically dispersed teams together to maximize efficiency, control costs and provide new flexibility in achieving business goals. It also offers yet another way to encourage migration to a converged IP solution with superior quality, reliability, availability and scalability."
A full list of Product of the Year winners will be published in the February, 2008 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine at www.itmag.com.
"Global Crossing has a proven commitment to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace. INTERNET TELEPHONY is pleased to bestow a 2007 Product of the Year Award to their VoIP Ready-Access," said Rich Tehrani, TMC president and editor-in-chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. "We're proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from Global Crossing in the future."
ABOUT INTERNET TELEPHONY MAGAZINE
INTERNET TELEPHONY® has been the VoIP Authority since 1998™. Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has a circulation of 225,000 including pass-along readers. For more information, please visit www.itmag.com.
ABOUT TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®) publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 6,000 most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves as many as three million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, and Call Center 2.0 Conference. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)
ABOUT GLOBAL CROSSING
Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) provides telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core network connects approximately 390 cities in more than 30 countries worldwide, and delivers services to approximately 690 cities in more than 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 global communications provider with IPv6 natively deployed in both its private and public backbone networks.
Please visit www.globalcrossing.com or blogs.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
Rich Larris
North America
+ 1 973 937 0153
PR@globalcrossing.com
Analysts/Investors Contact
Gino Mathew
+ 1 973 937 0133
glbc@globalcrossing.com
CONTACT TMC:
Jan Pierret
+1 203 852 6800, ext. 228
jpierret@tmcnet.com
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