Florham Park, NJ -- March 15, 2005 -- Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) is helping Sun (NASDAQ: SUNW) roll out a uniform and convenient audio conferencing solution to its international employees. As part of a three-year contract signed last month, Global Crossing is supplying its Ready-Access® Global 800 solution to Sun, enabling Sun to reach all its employees in 33 countries in Asia, the Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.
"Our culture depends on telecommuting and mobility," said Pradeep Saxena, a manager in IT operations for Sun Microsystems. "As an organization with employees around the world, we were looking for a uniform 'touch and feel' -- a global solution for local, regional and global audio conferences that would enable our work groups to collaborate anytime, anywhere without having to memorize numerous dial-in numbers in the different countries and different dial pad commands. With Global Crossing's Ready-Access, Sun employees now share the same user experience and benefit from the same high-quality audio conferencing service -- whether they are in Japan, London, Seoul or Bangalore."
"Sun, along with many other FORTUNE 1000 companies, has entrusted their conferencing needs to Global Crossing," commented John Legere, Global Crossing's CEO. "Conferencing is an important part of our corporate strategy and a showcase example of how we can assist enterprises with their collaboration needs on a global scale."
Now, chairpersons and participants can cost-effectively join a single conference by dialing the international toll-free access number for their country. The Global 800 service is available in 35 countries. By leveraging its world-class VoIP backbone and extensive network reach, Global Crossing has also enabled Sun to expand audio conferencing services in the Asia Pacific region to Korea, India, Thailand and Malaysia. Sun has setup an abbreviated dial plan on its internal phone systems that enables employees to reach Global Crossing's audio conferencing service by dialing the same five digits from anywhere in the world.
Saxena also said, "It's now much simpler for our IT operations team to track and manage audio conferencing costs, because these costs will not be buried in landline, long-distance charges, expense reports and calling card bills in the multiple countries."
Sun has a long and successful record as an innovator, having developed products and services ranging from smart cards to supercomputers, and Java technology to the Solaris operating system that solves complex network computing problems for governments, enterprises and service providers.
"With Ready-Access, Sun has implemented an audio conferencing service that is easily and widely accessible," said Neil Barua, global vice president of collaboration services for Global Crossing. "With our global IP network, Global Crossing has the scope and scale to support a geographically dispersed company like Sun, offering employees a convenient and simple way to communicate using our Ready-Access Global 800 service."
A full service conferencing provider with 25 years of cumulative experience, Global Crossing delivers integrated, customized, and managed collaboration products -- audio, video and Web conferencing -- to address customers' network and real-time collaboration needs, while providing superior quality, reliability, availability and scalability. Global Crossing is committed to developing and supporting customer solutions that enable collaboration and convergence through its products, services, technology and security.
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.
