Global Crossing Provides Eurovision Link to Brazil During Beijing 2008 Olympics

Global Crossing Provides Eurovision Link to Brazil During Beijing 2008 Olympics

Expanded Circuit Between Rio de Janeiro and New York Will Provide Audiovisual Content

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. and SAO PAULO, Brazil, July 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Crossing (NASDAQ:GLBC) , a leading global IP solutions provider, today announced it will provide a link between Rio de Janeiro and New York for Eurovision, the premier sports and news content distributor for the world's top broadcast and media platforms, during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The contract expands the broadcaster's existing Private Line Services to accommodate enhanced audio visual content.

"Eurovision has over 50 years of experience in putting sports programming exactly where broadcasters and federations want it, in a seamless, reliable and cost-effective way," said Stefan Kuerten, director of Eurovision operations. "We're delighted to work with Global Crossing for this vital SDH leg in our worldwide video network. Global Crossing delivers highly reliable and secure services, which are critical for our operations."

Global Crossing Private Line services provide highly reliable, secure, point-to-point, digital connectivity, for a wide range of applications used by enterprise customers, including hosting, resource planning, business continuity, content distribution and disaster recovery.

"This agreement with Eurovision illustrates our ability to meet the exacting demands of the corporate market in Brazil and worldwide," said Marcos Malfatti, Global Crossing's senior vice president of sales in Brazil. "Our success is based on our commitment to understanding the needs of our customers and to becoming a key business partner to them."

Global Crossing Private Line services also support high-bandwidth operations such as large data transfers, medical imaging, record archiving, database sharing and replication, and remote office access to application servers. The services' capacities range from T1/E1 up to OC-48/STM-16.

About Eurovision

Eurovision is a department of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the largest association of national broadcasters in the world. Eurovision operates a global fibre and satellite platform dedicated to the delivery of top sports and news events to the international broadcast and media market. For further information please contact: info@eurovision.net.

About Global Crossing Latin America

Global Crossing's Latin American business has operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela and the United States (Florida). In addition to its IP-based fiber-optic network, Global Crossing's regional infrastructure includes 15 metropolitan networks and 15 world-class data centers located in the main business centers of Latin America.

Global Crossing's reach and experience in Latin America allow it to address the particularities of the region and deliver the solutions each company needs. The company provides services to a variety of customers, including medium and large companies and corporations, institutions and government entities, and telecommunications operators.

About Global Crossing

Global Crossing (NASDAQ:GLBC) provides telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core network connects approximately 390 cities in more than 30 countries worldwide, and delivers services to approximately 690 cities in more than 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 data, voice and security products to approximately 40 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs. Its Professional Services and Managed Solutions provide VoIP, security and network consulting and management services to support its Global Crossing IP VPN service and Global Crossing VoIP services. Global Crossing was the first global communications provider with IPv6 natively deployed in both its private and public backbone networks.

Please visit www.globalcrossing.com or blogs.globalcrossing.com for more information about Global Crossing.

Statements in this press release about expected future events and financial results are forward-looking and subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially, including risks referenced from time to time in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Global Crossing undertakes no duty to update information contained in this press release or in other public disclosures at any time.

   Contact Global Crossing:   Press Contacts   Becky Yeamans   + 1 973 937 0155   becky.yeamans@globalcrossing.com    Fernanda Marques   Latin America   + 55 11 3957 2042   fernanda.marques@globalcrossing.com    Analysts/Investors Contact   Antonio Suarez   + 1 800 836 0342   glbc@globalcrossing.com    GEN/PR1  

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CONTACT: Media, Becky Yeamans, +1-973-937-0155,
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