NEWS

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Global Crossing Announces Intent to Acquire Impsat

Global Crossing has announced its intent to enter into a merger agreement with Impsat, a leading provider of integrated broadband data, Internet and voice telecommunications services in Latin America.

This acquisition will add to Global Crossing's roster of IP- and data-focused enterprise and carrier customers, as well as provide additional products and deeper connectivity to its customers around the world

Impsat developed the first pan-Latin American broadband network and has more than 4,500 customers. It has a deep network in seven Latin American countries, as well as in the U.S., and operates 15 metropolitan networks and advanced hosting centers. Acquiring Impsat will complement Global Crossing's capabilities and scale, improve the range of solutions the company offers, and help solidify the company's position as a leading provider of telecommunications services for enterprises and carriers in the region.

Collaboration News

New Ready-Access Video offer Enhances Global Crossing Collaboration Portfolio

Global Crossing has added Ready-Access® Video to its collaboration services portfolio. The new service dramatically improves the effectiveness of collaboration services by allowing users to simultaneously display presentations and high-quality video, combining the benefits of videoconferencing and Web conferencing into a powerful, single-screen experience for the end user.

Ready-Access Video is a highly interactive business collaboration tool that brings geographically dispersed teams together in a cost-effective manner. It gives users real-time control of content and supports on-demand multi-point video bridging, integrated recording, streaming and broadcasting, Web-based presentations, and archiving. Meeting participants can conveniently connect to a discussion through a standard videoconferencing system by phone and the Web, or by watching a full video stream at their computers.

Offered in partnership with IP technologies provider Applied Global Technologies (AGT), the new service supports on-demand video bridging and all standards-based ISDN or IP collaboration endpoints. It features a reservationless PIN system that allows users to quickly start videoconferences as easily as if they would initiate Ready-Access audio conferences.

Global Crossing Launches VoIP Ready-Access Conferencing Service

Global Crossing now provides yet another way to help enterprise customers migrate to a converged IP solution by combining its Ready-Access® audio conferencing service with its Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) connection. This solution gives users an efficient and convenient way to combine the value and ease of an on-demand audio conferencing service with the cost savings of VoIP.

VoIP Ready-Access service provides users with a connection to an on-net private dialing plan that lets them access Global Crossing's flagship reservationless, on-demand Ready-Access audio conferencing service. Global Crossing Ready-Access has a robust set of audio conferencing features and is fully integrated with Global Crossing Ready-Access Web Meeting and Global Crossing Live Meeting (provided by Microsoft). VoIP Ready-Access uses a converged IP network for both the audio and Web features. This lets users share slides and applications, as well as record meetings, making conferences more efficient and productive.

Global Crossing's Video Endpoint Management Service Simplifies Videoconferencing

Global Crossing has added Video Endpoint Management Service to its collaboration services portfolio. The service enhances workflow and employee productivity, eliminates unnecessary network administration typically associated with videoconferencing, and eases the complexity of monitoring global enterprise customers' videoconferencing endpoints.

Using uCommand®, Global Crossing's award winning customer Web portal, multinational enterprises can monitor and manage their videoconferencing equipment at any time, and from anywhere in the world, to conduct fault resolution, upgrade software and dispatch maintenance. This capability eliminates operational challenges, improves service levels and minimizes the need to devote internal technical staff to videoconferencing application support.

VoIP News

Global Crossing Extends VoIP Outbound Service Portfolio to 14 Countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific

Global Crossing has made its Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Outbound Service available to both enterprise and carrier customers in previously unserved parts of Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region, as well as in eight new European countries. The company now has the ability to service customers VoIP needs via the same seamless private IP-based network from 28 different countries worldwide.

The company also has enhanced the service to offer intra-country dialing to enterprise customers in five more European countries. This expanded service availability and enhanced capability complement existing VoIP services in Europe and North America.

In the Asia-Pacific and Latin American regions, Global Crossing has extended availability of VoIP Outbound Service to Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Hong Kong and Singapore. For the first time, both carrier and enterprise customers in those countries can enjoy the advantages of VoIP Outbound Service via Global Crossing's private IP backbone network.

In Europe, Global Crossing VoIP Outbound Service now is available in Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Portugal and Slovakia. VoIP Outbound Service had already been available in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, as well as in Canada and the United States.

For more information, view this animated overview on Global Crossing's VoIP capabilities, http://www.globalcrossing.com/movies/voip_overview/voip_overview.swf.

Global Crossing Launches VoIP Professional Services

Global Crossing has introduced VoIP Professional Services, which leverage an enhanced agreement with Avaya (NYSE: AV), a global leader in business communications applications, systems and services. VoIP Professional Services include assessment, design and implementation services with seamless transitions to managed solutions. Common elements in many solutions may include network readiness assessment and design, network integration and implementation, and managed VoIP PBX services.

The offer includes an initial four-hour consultation to qualified prospects, which is risk-free, with no charge or further obligation for customers. Global Crossing's agreement with Avaya also would allow Global Crossing to resell Avaya's IP telephony applications, systems and services as part of a complete VoIP-based solution.