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Global Crossing Completes Expansion of its Data Center in Buenos Aires

Posted on: Monday, 22 June 2009, 06:00 CDT

Expansion will satisfy growing demand for services

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC), a leading global IP solutions provider, today announced the completion of its Data Center expansion in Buenos Aires.

A new electrical subsystem increases power 120 percent, enabling the Data Center to serve more customers. In a first stage, the Data Center operations area will be extended 115 sq. meters to satisfy the growing demand for services. New office space will be added as well.

Global Crossing's Data Center solutions provide customers with housing, hosting, processing storage, backup, monitoring and security -- as well as managed services -- enabling a secure data management for their technological platform and applications without the expense of a customer premise-based solution.

The Argentina Data Center has also been implementing several green initiatives to reduce its carbon footprint, including implementing server virtualization and reducing energy consumption. The company has taken a "bottom up" approach, understanding its customers' needs and adjusting and adapting its facilities to best meet those needs in an energy efficient manner.

The newly expanded Data Center, located in the neighborhood of Chacarita since 2000, is part of Global Crossing's Latin America Data Centers Network. All of the Data Centers in the network are being designed to perform to similar standards, following identical processes, and offer comparable products. This gives regional customers access to a consistent solutions portfolio in every country where they operate, and provides "one-stop shop" solutions for security, on-demand and continuity.

Global Crossing Security Solutions protect a company's sensitive information and safeguard hardware, software, and license investments, minimizing loss and claim risks. On Demand Solutions allow customers to use only what they need, whenever they need it, including network capacity, storage, processing power, and managed services. Continuity Solutions provide preventive tools and redundancy capabilities to keep companies operating, or to help them minimize potential financial contingency risks.

"We are very pleased with our Buenos Aires Data Center expansion," said Juan Carlos Martinez, senior vice-president of Data Center Services, Security, and Outsourcing for Global Crossing Latin America. "In a time of economic downturn where investments are usually deferred, Global Crossing is reinforcing its commitment to customers by providing more and better services."

In order to provide the highest service level for each solution, Global Crossing supports technologies from HP, Hitachi Data Systems, Sun, Dell, Oracle, Microsoft, Symantec, VMWare and Red Hat for its On Demand and Continuity solutions in the company´s data centers, and technologies from Juniper, Cisco, Checkpoint, Nokia, Kobil, Vasco, Sonicwall and IBM for its Security portfolio.

Several of Global Crossing's data centers in Latin America -- including Buenos Aires -- have received a Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) 70 review, which is a widely recognized auditing standard that evaluates the design and operating effectiveness of controls that have specific objectives, such as the security of financial information. This review is especially important to large businesses and is being increasingly accepted by government organizations and private companies that seek an independent opinion to confirm the effectiveness of a provider's processes and internal controls structure. It also simplifies their auditing processes and potentially can save them time and reduce their costs.

Global Crossing's Security Operation Center (SOC) has been certified by the ISO 9001:2000 international standard for quality control and satisfaction management, while our data centers in Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile are SAP Hosting Partners. All of these services are managed according to ITIL-defined processes.

Global Crossing's growing data center footprint currently offers collocation facilities in 60 major cities around the world, and 17 world-class data centers -- principally in Latin America with new additions in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe -- that are focused on managed services. These centers provide ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) solutions to Global Crossing enterprise and carrier customers with a need for off-premise and virtual solutions. Global Crossing hosting facilities enable customers to link sites seamlessly -- with consistent and similar services -- to virtually any location within the reach and capacity of one of the world's most extensive global IP networks.

ABOUT GLOBAL CROSSING

Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC) is a leading global IP solutions provider with 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.

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 Paula Vivo Latin America + 55 11 3957 2424 paula.vivo@globalcrossing.com Rich Larris North America + 1 973 937 0153 Richard.larris@globalcrossing.com Analysts/Investors Contact Antonio Suarez + 1 800 836 0342 Antonio.Suarez@Globalcrossing.com

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SOURCE Global Crossing

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