Eurovision taps Global Crossing for additional link

JULY 2, 2008 -- Global Crossing (search for Global Crossing) says it will provide a link between Rio de Janeiro and New York for Eurovision, the premier sports and news content distributor for the world's top broadcast and media platforms, during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The contract expands the broadcaster's existing Private Line Services to accommodate enhanced audio visual content.

"Eurovision has over 50 years of experience in putting sports programming exactly where broadcasters and federations want it, in a seamless, reliable, and cost-effective way," reports Stefan Kuerten, director of Eurovision operations. "We're delighted to work with Global Crossing for this vital SDH leg in our worldwide video network. Global Crossing delivers highly reliable and secure services, which are critical for our operations."

According to Global Crossing, its Private Line services provide highly reliable, secure, point-to-point, digital connectivity for a range of applications used by enterprise customers, including hosting, resource planning, business continuity, content distribution, and disaster recovery.

"This agreement with Eurovision illustrates our ability to meet the exacting demands of the corporate market in Brazil and worldwide," contends Marcos Malfatti, Global Crossing's senior vice president of sales in Brazil. "Our success is based on our commitment to understanding the needs of our customers and to becoming a key business partner to them."

Global Crossing Private Line services also support high-bandwidth operations such as large data transfers, medical imaging, record archiving, database sharing and replication, and remote office access to application servers. The services' capacities range from T1/E1 up to OC-48/STM-16.

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