Florham Park, NJ -- Sept 27, 2004 -- Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBCE) announced today that it is providing OneCleveland with a set of broadband services to deliver reliable, high-speed connectivity to the area's research, education, government, healthcare, cultural and other nonprofit facilities. OneCleveland is a nonprofit provider of community-based ultra broadband data network service, dedicated to connecting, enabling and transforming much of Northeast Ohio.
"We selected Global Crossing for its service reliability and its demonstrated leadership and experience in serving the needs of research and education networks around the world," said Scot Rourke, OneCleveland's executive director. "We're confident that Global Crossing's high-capacity, secure network is the best suited to meet the needs of our bandwidth-hungry and technologically sophisticated subscribers."
A Global Tier 1 member of the Internet2 community, Global Crossing has worked to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, building on the advantages conferred by its global, multiservice backbone.
OneCleveland, founded by leading Cleveland-area public sector institutions including Case Western Reserve University, is dedicated to promoting the adoption of information technology tools and increasing their accessibility throughout the community. Together, OneCleveland and Global Crossing are also bringing National Lambda Rail, a national scale high-speed network infrastructure for research and experimentation in networking technologies and applications, to the region.
"We're delighted to be supporting OneCleveland's ambitious project with our advanced MPLS-based fiber optic IP network," said Paul O'Brien, Global Crossing's executive vice president, enterprise sales. "Our commitment to support the collaborative needs of the worldwide research community is as strong as ever."
Global Crossing supports research and educational networks around the world with its high-capacity, MPLS-enabled backbone, including the AMPATH network linking research and educational institutions in North and South America; the eMerlin very large radiotelescope array; the GÉANT multi-gigabit pan-European backbone; ALICE, a project to link GÉANT universities in 18 South American countries, and SURFnet, the Netherlands' national network for research and education.
As a Global Tier 1 provider, Global Crossing connects with every major Tier 1 ISP in the world, reaching 100 percent of the Internet. Global Crossing's Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) service offers Internet connectivity to all worldwide domains using a meshed network that incorporates true global IP over Multiprotocol Label Switching-traffic engineering (MPLS-te) as a backbone transport technology, providing the ultimate in network resiliency and flexibility. Global Crossing provides customers with always on, direct high-speed connectivity to the Internet at speeds ranging from 56Kbps/64Kbps to OC48/STM16 and Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet on a global basis. DIA service can also be accessed via a Frame Relay or ATM network using FR to IP or ATM to IP interworking.
About OneCleveland
OneCleveland is a nonprofit provider of a community-based ultra broadband networking services to educational, governmental, research, arts and cultural, nonprofit and healthcare organizations in Greater Cleveland.
Subscribers to the fiber optic network are connected to each other and the Internet backbone at gigabit speeds. OneCleveland also works with technology companies and its subscribers to develop and deploy next generation applications and services that take advantage of the network. Please visit www.onecleveland.org for more information about OneCleveland.
About Global Crossing
Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBCE) provides telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core network connects more than 300 cities and 30 countries worldwide, and delivers services to more than 500 major cities, 50 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 Services and Global Crossing VoIP services, to more than 40 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs.
Please visit www.globalcrossing.com for more information about Global Crossing.
