AccessLine Leverages Global Crossing's Advanced VoIP Capabilities to Power Its Turnkey Solution
8 February 2006
Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC) today announced that it is providing AccessLine Communications Corporation, a leader in hosted communications and managed voice services for Fortune 100 companies and the small and medium business (SMB) market, with a suite of high-performance Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services including VoIP Outbound, VoIP Toll-Free and VoIP DID. This contract extension highlights the strong relationship between the two companies.
"VoIP is critical to our continued business growth," said Doug Johnson, AccessLine's chief executive officer. "Our partnership with Global Crossing enables us to deliver our turnkey VoIP application suite to customers over Global Crossing's high quality VoIP network."
Transition to an IP-based network is a key enabler for AccessLine, revolutionizing enterprise communication by replacing hardware-based solutions with software applications delivered as a service. VoIP is transforming the world of voice by enabling users to access a tremendous range of new features more efficiently. Additionally, VoIP is flexible and scales easily while offering competitive advantages including high performance, security, reliability and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO).
"AccessLine is a valued long-term partner focused on innovative technology and customer service," said Paul O'Brien, Global Crossing's executive vice president, global enterprise and collaboration services. "Our successful partnership is based on mutual objectives including industry-leading service delivery, network security, proactive customer support and true end-to-end life cycle management."
A leader in fully interoperable, secure VoIP services for enterprise and carrier customers, Global Crossing currently runs more than two billion minutes per month of VoIP traffic over its private, global backbone. The company's VoIP services deliver carrier-class quality, backed by end-to-end IP service level agreements (SLAs) for jitter, packet loss, availability and latency. Global Crossing was one of the first service providers to announce the replacement of legacy switches with VoIP switches in its network core, enhancing the seamless delivery of converged IP services.
In addition to its suite of high-performance services, Global Crossing offers a consultative selling approach that allows enterprises to fully leverage the benefits of a converged environment seamlessly and at their own pace. Customers consistently recognize the company's account management teams as essential business partners whose knowledge and dedication are instrumental in helping businesses shape their environments for higher productivity and flexibility.
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 600 cities, 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 managed data and voice products including Global Crossing IP VPN Service, Global Crossing Managed Services and Global Crossing VoIP services, to 36 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs.
Please visit http://www.globalcrossing.com for more information about Global Crossing.
About AccessLine
AccessLine Communications provides hosted and managed VoIP services for large and small businesses nationwide. The company offers a complete set of easy to implement, cost-effective managed voice services, available via either traditional phone or VoIP networks and through nationwide local access. With a customer base of more than 100,000 business users, AccessLine provides unprecedented application quality, functionality and customer support. AccessLine recently won the "Pulver100" Award for top VoIP growth companies, the "Internet Telephony Excellence" award for their SmartVoice Service, and the "Red Herring 100" award for the best 100 private companies in America. For more information, please visit http://www.accessline.com .
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 Global Crossing's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company undertakes no duty to update information contained in this press release or in other public disclosures at any time.
CONTACT GLOBAL CROSSING:
Press Contact
Catherine Berthier
+ 1 646-862-8514
PR@globalcrossing.com
Analysts/Investors Contact
Laurinda Pang
+ 1 800-836-0342
glbc@globalcrossing.com
Source: prnewswire
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