Global Crossing provides telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core network connects more than 400 cities in more than 45 countries worldwide, and delivers services to approximately 700 cities in more than 70 countries and six continents around the globe.
| The company offers a full range of managed data and voice products including IP-VPN, managed services, IP video and VoIP services to more than a third of the Fortune 500 companies, and about 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs. All of these services are delivered over a highly secure IP network, which is managed and operated end-to-end by Global Crossing. It is a network that will not be replicated in the near future, if ever. Global Crossing was the first global communications provider with IPv6 natively deployed in both its private and public backbone networks. Global Crossing’s IP-based network uses a single autonomous system, which provides a seamless, secure, global network infrastructure, and ensures uninterrupted network availability for critical business applications. Global Crossing offers service level agreements (SLAs) that include 99.999 percent uptime guarantees. Its industry-leading network performance metrics are independently monitored. |  |  |
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| | | Global Crossing is one of the biggest voice over IP (VoIP) traffic carriers globally, and transports over one billion VoIP minutes on the network per month. The company maintains multiple network operation centres and global managed services centres that provide fully redundant, 24x7 service and customer support. | | |
Global Crossing was awarded the ‘Best Global Wholesale Provider’ by Capacity magazine and was also awarded the Industry Innovation and Advancement Award 2005 by Frost & Sullivan in 2005. In 2006, Global Crossing was ranked fourth in the 2006 InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of 500 of the most innovative users of information technology in the United States, and marked the fifth consecutive year that Global Crossing has been on the top five innovative IT companies list. The company was also ranked first place among telecommunications providers participating in the listing. Global Crossing received two Atlantic-ACM awards for Global Wholesale Carrier Excellence in 2008, as well as Capacity Magazine's Best Wholesale Strategy Award in 2007. The company won the 2007 Internet Telephony Product of the Year Award for Global Crossing VoIP Ready-Access Service and took Frost & Sullivan's 2007 Best Practices Award for Global Excellence in North American Enterprise and Carrier Internet Protocol (IP) Solutions.
Global Crossing’s shares are listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market.
