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Global Crossing Expands Data Center Contract with Gemalto to Support Services Platform in Latin America
Services will support mobile operators in Brazil and Latin America.
São Paulo, Brazil - May 19, 2009 -- Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC), a leading global IP solutions provider, today announced that Gemalto, a world leader in digital security, has expanded its data center services to support its platform in Brazil and Latin America. This will allow the company to provide services to the most important mobile carriers in the region.
"Global Crossing has been our partner for the past three years. Their portfolio of data center services suit our needs and support our strategy for expanding our Managed Services offer in Latin America," said Luis Lemos, manager of operational services, Gemalto.
Currently, Global Crossing provides Gemalto with hosting services for more than 30 servers, security database, Internet access and database services.
"Expanding our relationship with Gemalto demonstrated our commitment to working as a partner with our customers in every area of their business," said Marcos Malfatti, senior vice president of sales for Global Crossing in Brazil. "We understand the huge impact that 3G is expected to bring to our region and we are happy to continue supporting Gemalto as it expands its services."
Global Crossing's growing data center footprint offers world-class facilities in 16 major cities worldwide to provide businesses access to their critical customers and business partners. In Brazil, the company has data center facilities in the cities of São Paulo, Curitiba and Rio de Janeiro.
Global Crossing offers hosting solutions that provide customers housing, equipment, storage, backup and monitoring, as well as managed services that free them to run their applications or Web sites. The company's housing facilities allow customers to link sites seamlessly to virtually any location within the reach and capacity of the world's most extensive global IP network. On-Demand Solutions let customers use what they need when they need it, including network capacity, storage, processing power and managed services. They enable customers to respond rapidly and adequately to the demands of their clients or to other business opportunities.
ABOUT GEMALTO
Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO) is the world leader in digital security with 2008 annual revenues of €1.68 billion, and 10,000 employees operating out of 75 offices, research and service centers in 40 countries.
Gemalto is at the heart of our evolving digital society. The freedom to communicate, travel, shop, bank, entertain, and work-anytime, anywhere-has become an integral part of what people want and expect, in ways that are convenient, enjoyable and secure.
Gemalto delivers on the growing demands of billions of people worldwide for mobile connectivity, identity and data protection, credit card safety, health and transportation services, e-government and national security. We do this by supplying to governments, wireless operators, banks and enterprises a wide range of secure personal devices, such as subscriber identification modules (SIM) in mobile phones, smart banking cards, smart card access badges, electronic passports, and USB tokens for online identity protection. To complete the solution we also provide software, systems and services to help our customers achieve their goals.
As the use of Gemalto's software and secure devices increases with the number of people interacting in the digital and wireless world, the company is poised to thrive over the coming years.
For more information please visit www.gemalto.com.
ABOUT GLOBAL CROSSING
Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) is a leading global IP solutions provider with the world's first integrated global IP-based network. The company offers a full range of secure data, voice, and video products to approximately 40 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as to 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs. It delivers services to more than 690 cities in more than 60 countries and six continents around the globe.
In Latin America, Global Crossing´s business has operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela, the United States (Florida) and the Caribbean region. In addition to its IP-based, fiber-optic network, Global Crossing's regional infrastructure includes 15 metropolitan networks and 15 world-class data centers located in the main business centers of Latin America.
Please visit www.globalcrossing.com or blogs.globalcrossing.com for more information about Global Crossing.
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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 the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Global Crossing undertakes no duty to update information contained in this press release or in other public disclosures at any time.
CONTACT GLOBAL CROSSING:
Press Contacts
Paula Vivo
Latin America
+ 55 11 3957 2424
paula.vivo@globalcrossing.com
Rich Larris
North America
+ 1 973 937 0153
richard.larris@globalcrossing.com
Analysts/Investors Contact
Antonio Suarez
+ 1 973 937 0233
glbc@globalcrossing.com
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