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Global Crossing Adds New VoIP
Access Options to Its Collaboration Services
Other Topics: VoIP for Enterprises,
VoIP Interoperable Access Solution,
Triple Play of IP Services
February 28, 2007
New VoIP access options in Asia and Europe deliver greater
efficiencies
to enterprises.
Customers worldwide experience improved reliability and higher
quality.
Florham Park, NJ -- Building upon its successful 2006 growth in
collaboration
services, Global Crossing, a leading global provider of
telecommunications
solutions, today announced expanded local access in Europe and Asia to
support the rising demand for Global Crossing Ready-Access(R) audio
collaboration services. "We're increasing our conferencing network
scale,
reach and service availability to support the growing global
requirements of
our enterprise customers," said Anthony Christie, Global Crossing's
chief marketing
officer. "Our continued expansion of collaboration services into
additional
markets worldwide builds on the momentum of our collaboration growth
in
2006 and ensures Global Crossing remains a leader in the collaboration
industry." |
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Global Crossing now
provides local access to its Ready-Access service
in 31 cities throughout Europe over its Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
network. In 2006, Global Crossing leveraged its expanded European VoIP
network to offer local services for the first time to Austria, Italy,
Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.
Global Crossing is also offering access via its VoIP network in Asia,
providing collaboration services to customers in Hong Kong, the
Philippines, Taiwan, Australia, Indonesia and New Zealand. The VoIP
network
represents a more cost-effective way to connect to Ready-Access, and
it
delivers a higher quality of service for a better overall customer
experience. Development currently is under way to deliver additional
access
alternatives in Europe and Asia in 2007.
In addition to expanding collaboration services into new global
markets, Global Crossing also expanded its conferencing capacity to
support
approximately 15 percent more conferencing minutes each month in 2006
compared to 2005. The company recently introduced Ready-Access VoIP,
the
combination of Ready-Access audio conferencing service with Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, to support the company's converged
IP
and collaboration services growth initiative. Ready-Access VoIP offers
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.
In 2006, Global Crossing's worldwide collaboration traffic increased
by
more than 35 percent compared with 2005. According to TeleSpan, the
authoritative source for teleconferencing news and analysis, Global
Crossing's growth is approximately three times the current estimated
market
growth rate for the industry.
Global Crossing offers enterprises a full suite of converged IP
collaboration services for virtually any meeting need. Audio
conferencing
services include Ready-Access, Global "800" Service, VoIP
Ready-Access,
Event Call, Event Express Call and Automated Event Call. Customers
around
the world are able to connect to Global Crossing's audio collaboration
platform using a mix of toll-free and local access methods. Web
conferencing services include Ready-Access Web Meeting, eMeeting and
Live
Meeting. Videoconferencing services include iVideoconferencing, IP
Video,
Ready-Access Video, and Video Endpoint Management Service supporting
both
ISDN and IP-based end points.
About Global Crossing
Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC) provides telecommunications solutions
over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core
network
connects more than 300 cities in 29 countries worldwide, and delivers
services to more than 600 cities in 60 countries and 6 continents
around
the globe. The company's global sales and support model matches the
network
footprint and, like the network, delivers a consistent customer
experience
worldwide.
Global Crossing IP services are global in scale, linking the world's
enterprises, governments and carriers with customers, employees and
partners worldwide in a secure environment that is ideally suited for
IP-based business applications, allowing e-commerce to thrive. The
company
offers a full range of managed data and voice products including
Global
Crossing IP VPN Service, Global Crossing Managed Solutions and Global
Crossing VoIP services, to approximately 40 percent of the Fortune
500, as
well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs. |
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