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Global Crossing Delivers 26 Global EtherExtend(SM) Flex Access Service Locations to Enterprise Customers

Posted on: Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 06:00 CDT

FLORHAM PARK, N.J., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC), a leading global IP solutions provider, today announced that 26 EtherExtend(SM) Flex Service locations now are "service-ready." The company recently added Houston, Sunnyvale, Singapore and Frankfurt. The service is available in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region and will be available in more than 70 points of presence in these same regions, plus Latin America, by the end of 2009.

Other sites where the service is available are Hong Kong in Asia; Amsterdam, London, Milan and Paris in Europe; Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. in the United States, and Toronto, Canada.

"By delivering EtherExtend Flex to our customers, we're making good on our commitment to continually expand our global portfolios of Access and Ethernet Services for all markets," said Dave Carey, Global Crossing's chief marketing officer.

"The ongoing roll-out of EtherExtend Flex to 70 locations around the world confirms Global Crossing as a global Ethernet service provider," stated David Hold, senior analyst at Current Analysis. "EtherExtend Flex offers enterprises a cost-effective access alternative for Internet and IP VPN services -- including Global Crossing's suite of IP services -- employing rate limiting functionality on Ethernet virtual circuits to carve out just the amount of bandwidth a customer needs."

According to Nemertes' Spring 2009 benchmark research, 39 percent of enterprises look to Ethernet as a local loop for access to MPLS-based services.

The company introduced Global Crossing EtherExtend Flex Service in January to provide its customers with cost-effective and flexible Ethernet access to IP-based services. EtherExtend Flex lowers a user's cost of access and matches the access Level of Service to the application's needs. It provides a last-mile Ethernet connection to Global Crossing's end-user customer via logical connections over a physical Network-to-Network Interface with the access provider, rather than forwarding the customer's traffic over a fixed physical connection to Global Crossing.

EtherExtend Flex can be paired with Global Crossing IP VPN or Dedicated Internet Access/IP Transit services, whether managed or unmanaged. The service also can support Collaboration, Voice over Internet Protocol and other applications that utilize these transport services.

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.

Please visit www.globalcrossing.com or blogs.globalcrossing.com/ for more information about Global Crossing.

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SOURCE Global Crossing

Source: PR Newswire

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