Mexico City - November 10, 2004 -- Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) announced today that Barrera Siqueiros y Torres Landa (BSTL), a leading Mexican law firm, has selected Global Crossing IP VPN Service™ for converging the company's private voice, data, Internet and videoconferencing traffic onto a seamless network. Global Crossing is also providing the firm with Managed Services, a full end-to-end lifecycle support for IP VPN, enabling BSTL's IT staff to focus on core business responsibilities while Global Crossing ensures a secure, flexible, reliable and high-performing IP VPN.
"We selected Global Crossing because of their superior customer service, the guidance they provided from the very beginning and their product offering," said Andres Acedo, one of BSTL's partners. "With the network recently implemented, we're pleased to confirm that the Global Crossing IP VPN Service indeed provides the speed, reliability, security and flexibility required to support our sensitive data and voice transmissions, while providing us with an approximately 25 percent cost savings on a monthly basis."
With this agreement, BSTL offices in Mexico City and Monterrey will be able to transmit and critical business data, conduct teleconferences and videoconferences using Global Crossing's MPLS-based IP network.
"As we continue to grow our customer base in Latin America, we are very pleased to see clients like Barrera Siquieros y Torres Landa benefiting from our converged IP services network and cost-effective management services," said Pablo Mlikota, Global Crossing's vice president of enterprise sales for Latin America, Caribbean and the southeastern United States.
Barrera Siqueiros y Torres Landa IP traffic will be transported over Global Crossing's secure, privately owned and operated MPLS-based IP backbone, physically separate from the public Internet and enabling Global Crossing to provide the security and performance required by multinationals around the globe. Global Crossing's MPLS-based IP backbone consistently operates at greater than 99.999 percent availability, above the highest industry standard. Global Crossing offers business continuity solution options including diverse and redundant connectivity between critical locations, partners, suppliers and personnel.
Available today in more than 500 cities and 50 countries, Global Crossing provides one of the highest performance and versatile IP VPN solutions currently in place, providing true global reach, scalable connectivity, multiple access, flexible billing options, and supporting convergence of corporate data, VoIP, IP Video and Internet access, all over one connection. Global Crossing's IP VPN Service allows carrier and enterprise customers to create secure, private intranets and extranets globally. It's a perfect solution for moving traffic such as e-mail, e-commerce, streaming video and/or other data applications between multiple sites across the Global Crossing worldwide network based on differentiated Quality of Service (QoS) across multiple Classes of Service (CoS) on MPLS.
Global Crossing Managed Services provides value-added pre-sales engineering and CPE design, equipment procurement, provisioning and installation, and network monitoring and management backed by global SLAs. The service also provides ongoing end-to-end CPE and network management and maintenance support for corporate locations around the globe, permitting customers to focus on their core businesses.
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 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.
About Barrera Siqueiros Torres
For more information about Barrera Siqueiros Torres Landa please visit www.bstl.com.mx.
