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Jubany Antarctic Base Communicates Via Global Crossing
New satellite link enables videoconferencing and real-time remote scientific monitoring.
Buenos Aires - June 5, 2008 -- Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC), a leading global IP solutions provider, announced today that it has installed a new antenna with Single Channel Per Carrier (SCPC*) technology at Argentina's Lieutenant Jubany permanent scientific base in Antarctica to improve communications and facilitate information exchange.
 The Jubany base is located in the northwestern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula and serves as a scientific base for research and monitoring projects in biology, oceanography and atmospheric science that require round-the-clock exchange of information.
The new satellite link from Global Crossing maximizes communication possibilities by enabling not only traditional solutions such as voice services, Internet access and e-mail, but also videoconferencing and real-time remote monitoring applications.
The installation of the new antenna will not only provide important benefits to operational communications between base personnel and the headquarters of the Argentine Antarctic Institute in Buenos Aires, but will also allow for easier contact between those on the base and their distant families and friends.
 The National Antarctic Authority (Dirección Nacional del Antártico) says that " implementation of the new data link installed by Global Crossing represents a solution for different communication requirements at the different levels of the institute. In this way, technology allows us to break the physical barriers that separate us - connecting us virtually with the White Continent."
"Providing services to the National Antarctic Authority in the Antarctic bases proves Global Crossing's capability to fulfill customer needs in any part of the world, combining different technologies such as submarine cables, fiber-optics and satellites, among others," said Luis Piccolo, sales vice president for the Southern Cluster of Global Crossing Latin America.
*SCPC (Single Channel per Carrier) is a satellite transmission system with a separate carrier (frequency) for each transmission channel, as opposed to frequency or time division multiplexing, which combines many channels on a single carrier.
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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.
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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.
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