Company Establishes New Executive Position to Support Hosting Strategy

Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC), a leading IP solutions provider, today revealed plans to open a hosting data center in London to serve customers in Europe, and has relocated its data center operations in the Miami area to accommodate the housing and hosting needs of United States customers interested in connectivity to Latin America. To illustrate its commitment to enhancing its hosting and data center business solutions, the company also has created a new executive position to oversee its hosting strategic initiative.

Gabriel del Campo, who currently manages the company's incumbent data center business in Latin America, will serve as Global Crossing's new vice president of data center services EMEA and global data center product management.

"When we completed our acquisition of Impsat roughly a year ago, we emphasized the close alignment of our two businesses, and in particular, the opportunity to introduce existing Impsat services to a wider, global customer base," said John Legere, Global Crossing's chief executiveofficer. "Our existing hosting infrastructure is world class. This expansion aims to capitalize on the rising demand for data center services, where supply has become increasingly scarce across Europe, and to accommodate the needs of U.S. businesses seeking connectivity to the Latin American region. It's imperative to Global Crossing's customers that we enhance and expand this valuable capability."

"Delivering this capability to enterprise customers in Europe beginning with our London facility is a cornerstone of our strategy to support their critical business needs," echoed Anthony Christie, managing director, EMEA. "As we hone our focus on this crucial market segment, we'll continue to refine this strategic growth area and to firmly plant Global Crossing in the minds of existing and prospective customers."

According to Gartner, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, if significant new data center space is not brought on-stream in high-demand areas like London, there will be no free space left by the end of the decade.*

"The general improvement in business conditions is causing organizations to come back to the data center market with greater overall demand than has been seen in recent years," said Scott Morrison, research director at Gartner. "The increase in demand for data center services is being driven primarily by internal enterprise requirements, including the growth in content-rich applications, data storage needs and virtualization. These are more robust indicators for positive mid-term growth in the industry than the supply-led expansion of Web-facing solutions in the dot-com era."

Consolidating our data center services with our Miami operations offers expanded physical facilities and enhances services provided to customers previously served out of a former Impsat facility in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The 650-square meter upgraded data center boasts a world-class infrastructure and quality standards, including state-of-the- rt secure client support, such as a redundant power system for generators, rectifiers, UPS and air conditioning.

Under del Campo's leadership, the Latin American team built Impsat's existing successful data center business from the ground up. In addition to his other responsibilities, he will guide the development of common standards, best practices and processes to support the evolution of what has been a regional business into a global one.

"Global Crossing's hosting business is focused on addressing enterprises' increasing demand for integrated Information Communications Technology (ICT) solutions," explained del Campo. "Our emphasis is on solutions. We recognize the enterprise market's need for converged services that go beyond data, video and voice integration, to integrate and combine IT services with telecommunications, Internet, security and VoIP."

Global Crossing's growing data center footprint currently offers world-class facilities in 60 major cities worldwide to provide businesses access to critical customers and business partners. Global Crossing housing facilities allow customers to seamlessly link sites to virtually any location around the world within the reach and capacity of the world's most extensive global IP network. The benefits of Global Crossing colocation facilities also include receiving consistent and similar services throughout the world and the ease of one-stop shopping for ICT, On-Demand and Continuity solutions.