Global Crossing announced Wednesay a new agreement with Loral Skynet. By leveraging Global Crossing’s Fast-Track services, Loral Skynet can more easily reach locations outside its satellite network, delivering converged IP services to its global customer base.
“Our customers demand seamless, converged communications with end-to-end QoS virtually anywhere in the world,” said Jon Kirchner, Loral Skynet’s vice president of global marketing.
“This agreement supports Skynet’s leadership in converged IP services over satellite, through SkyReach, and allows us to serve new markets cost-effectively, while retaining our service features and delivering a totally transparent customer experience.”
Using Global Crossing’s iMPLS service, the two companies are interconnecting at Loral Skynet’s terrestrial POPs in San Jose, California; Ashburn, Virginia; and Munich, Germany using the highest level industry standard interconnection available.
The network is then directly extended to multiple earth stations that provide satellite and terrestrial connectivity to Loral Skynet’s customers in North America, Latin America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
“We’re delighted to be expanding our relationship with Loral Skynet,” said Ted Higase, Global Crossing’s executive vice president, worldwide carrier services.
“By tightly coupling our MPLS-based networks, Loral Skynet can connect its customers to the extensive Loral satellite grid from more than 500 additional PoPs.”
Loral Skynet is also leveraging Global Crossing’s IP Transit service to provide customers with Internet connectivity, and is using Global Crossing’s private line service for both resale and its own network infrastructure.
Global Crossing iMPLS Service is an enhanced provider interconnect service that allows MPLS-based service providers to seamlessly extend IP Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) services outside their service reach.
Recently, Loral Skynet and Global Crossing combined their respective satellite and terrestrial capabilities to win a 260 site IP network contract to support the British Council, a British charity organization partially funded by the UK Government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, illustrating the power of converging transport mediums, all IP-enabled.
Critical business communications require consistent levels of uninterrupted performance. Global Crossing’s industry-leading Service Level Agreements (SLAs) leverage the exceptional quality of the company’s network to guarantee crystal-clear, virtually jitter-free performance of real-time converged IP applications.
Available in more than 500 cities in 50 countries, Global Crossing provides one of the highest performance and versatile IP VPN solutions currently in place, with true global reach, scalable connectivity, multiple access options, and flexible billing options.
The solution supports the convergence of corporate data, voice, IP video and Internet access, all over a single connection.
Global Crossing’s IP Transit, running over its fully-meshed MPLS-based global IP network, delivers reliable, fast upstream connectivity to customers around the world, backed by extensive peering relationships and industry-leading network availability performance.
Global Crossing’s Private Line service provides high-reliability, point-to-point, digital connectivity around the world.
Global Crossing Fast-Track Services is a portfolio of wholesale business solutions which enables service providers to increase their speed-to-market and revenue realization by expanding their geographic reach, broadening their range of converged IP service offerings and providing a unified experience to customers around the world.
Fast-Track Services portfolio includes a full range of network services with two go-to-market options: Global Crossing Signature Services allow service providers to market these network services under their own brand to their customers, while Global Crossing Alliance Services enable service providers to co-brand the network services with Global Crossing.
