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ANSES Invests in Global Crossing´s Contingency Solutions
Continuity Solutions Help Agency Keep Businesses Operating Continuously
Buenos Aires, Argentina - October 20, 2008 -- Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC), a leading global IP solutions provider, today announced it has signed a 36-month contract with Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social (ANSES) or the National Administration of Social Security for Global Crossing's Continuity Solutions. Under the contract, Global Crossing will replicate ANSES central services in Global Crossing's data center in Buenos Aires, as well as assign on-site technical personnel who will assist the agency during its contingency period.
Global Crossing Continuity Solutions provide customers with preventive tools and redundancy capabilities that help keep businesses operating normally at all times. The service helps customers such as ANSES to minimize potential impacts created by unexpected interruptions in service caused by acts of nature such as hurricanes, earthquakes or floods, or by social, technological or other circumstances.
ANSES' Solutions, Information and Registration Services will be seamlessly provisioned on Global Crossing's global IP converged network. Services protected in the event of a temporary service interruption at ANSES include payment of family contributions, unemployment insurance, Social Security provisions, and company reimbursements.
"For the first time in many years, this agency is hiring a comprehensive alternative site for data processing service and we are proud of this breakthrough," says Pablo Fontdevilla, general manager of ANSES. "Global Crossing was among a group of highly qualified bids that we received in response to our service request to the marketplace.
Global Crossing recently expanded its data center in Buenos Aires to seamlessly integrate ANSES' applications on its IP network. At the same time, the company enabled a dark fiber-optic link to replicate data online from ANSES' primary site to its contingency site.
"We are pleased that the National Administration of Social Security is relying on Global Crossing's Continuity Solutions as its technological partner to ensure its business-critical applications are always available and functioning normally," said Luis Piccolo, sales vice president for the southern cluster of Global Crossing Latin America.
ANSES services covered under Global Crossing's Continuity Solutions include customer counseling and orientation, documentation receipt, grant of the Código Único de Identificación Laboral (CUIL) or the Single Employment Identification Number, retirement system option, recovery of retirement track record, data change, acknowledgement of services, readjustment and payroll certifications, automatic repayments, absenteeism and repatriations, return to active or passive work, work rehabilitation, family wages, notices to beneficiaries, subsidies and other services.
ABOUT ANSES
ANSES (National Administration of Social Security), was created as a decentralized agency in 1991, depending of the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security. It is enabled to administer funds of the National Retirement System, working either under master-servant relationship or on their own. In addition this agency manages subsidies and family contributions. Since the implementation of the Single Social Security Contribution, in February 1992, ANSES also manages funds of the National Employment Fund. This Fund finances those Employment Programs managed by the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security, as well as the provisions for the Employment Insurance Fund granted by ANSES. In 1992, ANSES took in other agencies that so far operated autonomously, such as the ex-Instituto Nacional de Previsión Social (INPS) or the former National Institute of Social Security, the three former National Retirement Funds, and the three former Family Contribution Funds.
ABOUT GLOBAL CROSSING
Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) is a leading global IP solutions provider of telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. The company offers a full range of secure data, voice, and video products to approximately 40 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as to 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs. It delivers services to more than 690 cities in more than 60 countries and six continents around the globe.
In Latin America, Global Crossing´s business has operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela, the United States (Florida) and the Caribbean region. In addition to its IP-based, fiber-optic network, Global Crossing's regional infrastructure includes 15 metropolitan networks and 15 world-class data centers located in the main business centers of Latin America.
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 Contacts
Tom Topalian
+ 1 973 937 0154
PR@globalcrossing.com
Paula Vivo
Latin America
+ 55 11 3957 2424
paula.vivo@globalcrossing.com
Analysts/Investors Contact
Antonio Suarez
+ 1 973 937 0233
glbc@globalcrossing.com
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