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Offers Internet services and videoconferencing to corporate clients and other guests
London, U.K., Wednesday, December 16, 2009 -- Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC), a leading global IP solutions provider, today announced Principal Hayley, a collection of hotels and conference and training venues, will use Global Crossing’s fully managed Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) services to offer their guests free Wi-Fi and Internet access, as well as videoconferencing facilities for their conference and training venues. Principal Hayley owns the well known Grand Connaught Rooms in London and some of the top conference locations across Europe. The company’s ethos is to provide a service and experience that will leave a lasting impression and ensure guests and corporate clients will want to return again and again.
“A majority of our guests are business travelers and we cater for large conference parties. It is therefore paramount that we are able to offer a seamless service, so they can effectively work remotely from the office or access and share information on-line,” explained Mark Jelley, IT director at Principal Hayley. “With the Global Crossing solution, we now have 100 Megabyte capacity and are looking to build a business model from this. We see technology as the catalyst for our growth and anticipate that with Global Crossing’s vision and expertise in providing flexible and innovative solutions, we can become the European market leader in hotel and conferencing facilities within five years.”
“We specialize in helping our customers find ways to use technology to offer a superior service and stand out from their competitors,” Ted Higase, managing director, EMEA, Global Crossing commented. “With Global Crossing’s IP VPN offering flexible bandwidth, Principal Hayley can not only offer the latest and fastest Internet experience now, it also is paving the way for an easy deployment of further business and customer applications in the future.”
Available since 2001, Global Crossing's IP VPN service provides one of the highest performing and most versatile network solutions currently available, delivering true global reach, scalable connectivity, greater security, guaranteed quality of service, multiple access options, and flexible billing options. The service delivers appropriate levels of latency, jitter and packet loss to ensure the successful concurrent handling of multiple types of traffic, especially voice and video. It is backed by comprehensive service-level agreements (SLAs) covering the overall performance of the service, and on-line access to real-time and historical service-performance reports.
ABOUT PRINCIPAL HAYLEY HOTELS AND CONFERENCE VENUES
Principal Hayley Hotels and Conference Venues is a collection of upscale conference-focused city centre hotels and dedicated conference and training venues in key locations around the UK and Western Europe. The Principal Hayley Group is committed to offering unrivalled services for the events market and has invested heavily in the portfolio to create luxurious, stylish and individual properties designed to meet the business and leisure requirements of all our guests.
The Principal Hayley portfolio currently includes 24 properties offering a combined capacity of over 4,100 bedrooms, over 500 meeting rooms and the ability to host over 26,000 delegates per day. Principal Hayley is a portfolio company of the Permira Funds. www.principal-hayley.com.
ABOUT GLOBAL CROSSING
Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) is a leading global IP and Ethernet solutions provider with the world's first integrated global IP-based network. The company offers a full range of data, voice and collaboration services. Global Crossing delivers an industry leading customer experience to approximately 40 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as to 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs. It delivers converged IP services to more than 700 cities in more than 70 countries around the globe.
Global Crossing UK Telecommunications Ltd. provides a full range of managed telecommunications services in a secure environment ideally suited for IP-based business applications. The company provides managed voice, data, Internet and e-commerce solutions to a strong and established commercial customer base, including more than 100 UK government departments, as well as systems integrators, rail sector customers and major corporate clients. In addition, Global Crossing UK provides carrier services to national and international communications service providers.
Please visit www.globalcrossing.com or http:\\blogs.globalcrossing.com/ for more information about Global Crossing.
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