Global Crossing’s fiber optic infrastructure, range of advanced Internet Protocol (IP) services, and proven outsourcing expertise will be leveraged by CSC to upgrade and manage its corporate wide area network. The agreement makes Global Crossing one of the preferred providers of networking services for CSC and its customers.
The agreement with Global Crossing expands CSC’s network reach, supporting its competitive positioning as a global information technology (IT) service and outsourcing solutions leader. As one of CSC’s preferred providers, Global Crossing will team with CSC to deliver integrated solutions to multinational enterprises over a shared, fully managed, global IP network. Global Crossing will provide wide area network, Internet Protocol virtual private network (IP VPN), and converged data and voice services, and CSC will provide local area network (LAN) management services.
We are pleased to have been selected by CSC to take on a mission-critical project of this scale. As one of the leading consulting and IT services firms, CSC’s standards are the highest in the world, and we value their confidence in our capabilities to deliver converged solutions, said John Legere, chief executive officer, Global Crossing and Asia Global Crossing. We share a common vision with CSC to fundamentally change the way large global enterprises conduct business by utilizing advanced IP communications technologies. We’ve built and we manage the first truly global fiber optic network designed to deliver IP services, and that accomplishment, combined with our network services expertise, makes Global Crossing uniquely positioned to serve global companies like CSC.
The Global Crossing network connects hundreds of major business centers worldwide. A key factor in CSC’s choice of Global Crossing was the reach of Global Crossing’s globally managed IP network. CSC’s infrastructure includes 1,500 end points, approximately half of which are located outside North America, as well as connectivity to 18 major data facilities throughout the United States, Australia, Europe and Asia.
This agreement helps expand CSC’s global reach and provides our company and our customers with the most extensive managed IP services in the world, said Van B Honeycutt, CSC’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. This helps us fulfill our own as well as our customers’ needs for end-to-end, fully managed solutions. In turn, we enable new applications for our customers to ensure that they get their own products and services to market more quickly.
The strategic relationship between CSC and Global Crossing clearly demonstrates CSC’s confidence in Global Crossing’s ability to manage the CSC network as well as provide global networking services to their large multinational customers, said Eileen Eastman, vice president, Communication Services, the Yankee Group.
Additionally, the companies intend to co-market their services to provide multinational enterprises with an integrated portfolio of managed, desktop-to-desktop IP services. The relationship leverages the complementary strengths of Global Crossing’s global fiber optic network assets and IP capabilities with the full range of CSC’s leading IT services offerings.
In the Asia Pacific region, CSC’s network operations will be managed by Asia Global Crossing, a subsidiary of Global Crossing.
