Mar, 2003 : Global Crossing Launches Managed Services

📅 March 20, 2003 - Communications carrier Global Crossing (globalcrossing.com) announced on Thursday that it has launched its Global Crossing Managed Services, to be provided over the company's integrated global IP-based network, which reaches 27 countries and more than 200 major cities globally.

Global crossing says its managed services provide value-added pre-sales engineering and customer premise equipment (CPE) design, equipment procurement, provisioning and installation, and network monitoring and management backed by SLAs. The service also provides end-to-end CPE and network management and maintenance support for corporate locations around the world.
The company's managed services portfolio will initially include support for frame relay, ATM and Internet access services, with planned future enhancements for additional product offerings, including IP VPN in the second quarter and voice and video services in the second half of 2003.
"Our managed services offering provides customers end-to-end managed network solutions across the global platforms, seamlessly combining CPE management capabilities with core network operations," said Anthony Christie, Global Crossing's senior vice president of product management. "By extending these service capabilities globally, Global Crossing provides centralized and standardized network operations, whereby customers will benefit from consistent, single-point-of-contact, global network support."

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