FLORHAM PARK, N.J., March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Building on its three-year relationship with Limelight Networks, a leading end-to-end digital delivery network, Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC - News) announced today that it is providing a seven-location wavelength delivery network to support Limelight Networks' growing media distribution services. By selecting Global Crossing's Wavelength Service, Limelight Networks gains reliable, uninterrupted and virtually jitter-free delivery for its rich content delivery.
Limelight Networks provides digital delivery for many of the world's leading media, entertainment and Internet companies, including IFILM, BuyMusic.com, Musicmatch, Real Networks, RadioFree Virgin, Valve Software, and Quepasa.com, as well as leading television and radio broadcast networks.
"The digital media experience is predicated on uninterrupted, high-speed delivery, and Global Crossing's Wavelength Service enables us to offer our customers an outstanding listening, viewing, or gaming experience," said Nathan Raciborski, Limelight Networks' co-founder and network architect. "With our ongoing relationship and Global Crossing's network quality, they became an obvious choice to build our private backbone as part of our migration to a single-AS worldwide."
"Our relationship with Limelight Networks continues to grow along with their success as a digital delivery provider," said Ted Higase, Global Crossing's executive vice president, carrier sales. "Our network and solutions are designed to enable providers like Limelight Networks to meet the stringent demands of delivering rich media today."
Global Crossing's Wavelength Service is a flexible alternative to dark fiber and traditional capacity services, providing bandwidth on demand, expanded market coverage and increased speed to market, cost-effectively. It supports applications including MPLS based IP, SONET and ATM while eliminating unnecessary overhead and functional duplication across the network.
Limelight Networks has been using Global Crossing's IP Transit for content transport since 2001. Global Crossing's IP Transit leverages Global Crossing's worldwide Tier One, Single AS number network, which utilizes more than 195 private peering points with capacity of more than 75 Gbps for high-performance, always-on, easily scalable high-speed connectivity to the Internet.
As a corporate connectivity provider, Limelight Networks also benefits from Global Crossing's uCommand® Customer Service Portal. uCommand® is a unique offering that delivers 24x7 self-service autonomy to customers. This secure, private Web-based network management tool allows Limelight Networks to order data services, monitor its network, create utilization reports, establish end-user and product accounts, and view monthly billing reports.
All of Global Crossing's services are delivered through a streamlined global delivery model that offers customers prompt procurement and provisioning. Premier dedicated customer service is provided from state-of-the-art network operations (NOCs) and call centers worldwide on a 24-hour basis, seven days a week. This delivery model supports Global Crossing's mission to become the market leader of global data and IP services building upon Global Crossing's unique network and technology advantages.
ABOUT LIMELIGHT NETWORKS
Privately-held Limelight Networks is the first comprehensive digital delivery network, providing essential media routing and distribution solutions that include live and on-demand streaming media, content delivery, storage and hosting as well as Tier-1+ bandwidth services. Leveraging an efficient network architecture with strategic distribution points around the globe combined with powerful content management and reporting tools, Limelight Networks enables some of the industry's top content providers, webcasters and enterprise customers to reduce the cost and complexity of delivery while ensuring unmatched performance. Limelight Networks' innovative delivery platform has been proven to dramatically cut the costs associated with e-commerce, distance learning, online entertainment and corporate connectivity.
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ABOUT GLOBAL CROSSING
Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC - News) provides telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core network connects more than 200 cities and 27 countries worldwide, and delivers services to more than 500 major cities, 50 countries and 5 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.
