Headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, Global Crossing Ltd. provides telecommunications solutions worldwide. Founded in 1997, they do this over the world’s first integrated global Internet Protocol (IP)-based network. Trading on the NASDAQ, the company provides for the convergence of voice, video, and data. Global Crossing Ltd. is part of the Diversified Communication Services industry and has a market capitalization of $732.78 million.
With offices worldwide, Global Crossing’s core network connects approximately 400 cities in more than 45 countries. Overall, the company delivers services to over 690 cities in more than 60 countries and 6 continents around the world. Their customers include roughly 40 percent of the Fortune 500 companies as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). They provide solutions for their clients’ broadband, voice, data, or multi-media communications needs.
Global Crossing provides a fully integrated and interoperable suite of Internet Protocol and legacy services. These include IP VPN (Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network) services, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service, and Internet Protocol video. The company’s IP services link enterprises, governments, and carriers with customers, employees, and partners worldwide. This all takes place in a secure environment suited for IP-based business applications, and enables e-commerce to grow and function optimally and efficiently. Global Crossing’s Professional Services and Managed Solutions provide VoIP, security, and network consulting and management services to support their Global Crossing IP VPN service and Global Crossing VoIP services.
Today, the company announced that they are building on their Global Crossing Collaboration Solutions in Colombia. Their features for collaboration customers in Colombia include billing in local currency, multi-language manuals, tutorials, and audio prompts in Spanish and Portuguese. They also include the ability to identify the country from which a caller is dialing.
Their clientele in Colombia will now benefit from a dedicated local support team and Global Crossing access numbers. Their customers will also experience increased productivity as employees, customers, and providers in diverse geographic locations link in a virtual office. Collaborators in Columbia can now work through the use of audio, Web, and video, with solutions that create virtual face-to-face meetings.
Global Crossing has business operations throughout Latin America. Countries in their operational network include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela, and the Caribbean region. Along with their IP-based, fiber-optic network, their regional infrastructure in Latin America includes 15 metropolitan networks and 15 world-class data centers in main business centers. Global Crossing Ltd. (GLBC) continues to crisscross this region, and many other regions worldwide, to provide the telecommunications solutions their customers desire.
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