Global Crossing has strengthen its network and service offering for customers in Europe, North America and Latin America with additional IP gateways and 10G waves.

 

The IP network extensions in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Spain, and new points of presence (Pops) in Italy and Russia connect to the major exchanges in Moscow and Rome and enable Global Crossing to offer its suite of voice and data products to service providers in these cities. These new cities add depth to the network and take services geographically closer to the customer.

 

"Europe is key to our global strategy and we're building on our successes in this region by extending both our core and IP network reach," commented Pieter Duijves, Managing Director Global Crossing Europe. "These extensions are in response to the growing enterprise demand for converged IP services, and represent exactly what our network was built for."

As an indicator of the growth of IP and adoption of convergence, Global Crossing’s IP VPN traffic grew 300 percent in 2005, highlighting the company's success in attracting customers to its high-performance, robust suite of IP solutions.

The addition of Rome complements Global Crossing's existing point of presence in Milan and Turin and solidifies Global Crossing's business opportunities not only in Rome, but also throughout central and southern Italy. By giving Italian customers a closer gateway to Global Crossing's network, services will be more cost effective as access costs go down. The newly commissioned point of presence in Rome is already being used to provide service to customers.

Global Crossing further expanded its IP services on the existing footprint with the opening of IP PoPs in Brussels, Madrid, Munich and Vienna.  IP Transit will be available initially, with the addition of IP VPN expected later in the year. The Madrid and Vienna InterXion-run PoPs are both located in the main data centers in the cities.

Global Crossing's European IP-based core network now extends to more than 30,000 km across 15 countries, connecting more than 106 towns and cities outside the UK. In addition, Global Crossing has metropolitan networks in the major European cities of London, Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Milan and Madrid. The Global Crossing Network Operations Centre (GNOC) in London's docklands monitors the operation of Global Crossing's worldwide terrestrial and sub-sea, European and U.K. fiber optic networks. The GNOC is also a major traffic node and equipment collocation facility for European customers.

Global Crossing’s continued investment in the global, high-bandwidth network is a key enabler for service providers. Global Crossing is adding wavelengths on its Mid Atlantic Crossing (MAC) system, which links North America, Latin America, Europe and the Pacific, ensuring the ongoing delivery of its comprehensive suite of solutions to service providers worldwide. In March of last year, Global Crossing announced an upgrade to its 10,000-km UK backbone to enable an eight-fold increase in core network capacity, supporting the introduction of new services and IP growth. 

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 real-time scientific content.

Global Crossing anticipates an announcement for another network extension, so keep your eyes peeled at GTM.