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Date: 1998-10-04
Glasfaser: Bermudas erobern Europa
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Von den Bermudas aus ist Global Crossing angetreten, um als
"Carrier der Carrier" die Welt zu erobern. Nach Überquerung
von Atlantik & Pazifik ist seit 1. Oktober Europa dran.
700 Millionen Dollar wird die 10 Mbit/sec
Glasfaser/anbindung von 13 europäischen Städten (siehe
unten) kosten, München & Wien sind in der ersten Ausbaustufe
nicht dabei.
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Hamilton, Bermuda - October 1, 1998 - Global Crossing
(Nasdaq: GBLX), the first independent provider of world-wide
fiber optic telecommunications networks, today announced Pan
European Crossing, a fiber optic network directly linking 18
European cities with the United States, Asia and Latin
America. The Company plans to begin construction in October
1998, with network operation commencing in the fourth
quarter 1999.
Pan European Crossing will extend the company's
high-capacity, undersea global network to major European
commercial centers, meeting the growing demand for global
Internet and communications connectivity. Global Crossing
will manage Pan European Crossing as an integrated part of
its global network from its Bermuda-based network operations
center providing 24-hour service.
"Pan European Crossing will offer telecommunications
carriers the best of both worlds - seamless worldwide
service, and on-demand state-of-the-art capacity without up
front capital investment," said Global Crossing Chief
Executive Officer Jack Scanlon. "Our customers are
witnessing dramatic increases in Internet, E-Commerce and
related demand. Global Crossing is ready to support them by
offering reliable communications capacity at significantly
lower prices."
Pan European Crossing will interconnect 18 key cities,
including London, Amsterdam and Frankfurt, with the
company's Atlantic Crossing (AC-1) system that provides
connectivity to the United States. AC-1, which went into
commercial service in May 1998, links Pan European Crossing
to the rest of Global Crossing network. This is in
conjunction with Global Crossing's other networks-Pacific
Crossing (PC-1) connecting the U.S. and Japan; Mid-Atlantic
Crossing (MAC) connecting the eastern U.S., Bermuda, and the
Caribbean; and Pan-American Crossing (PAC) connecting the
western U.S., Central America, and the Caribbean.
"Pan European Crossing, along with other fiber optic systems
being constructed by Global Crossing, will comprise the
first independent, high capacity fiber optic network to
serve as a global platform, which its customers-telecom
operators and Internet Service Providers-can utilize to meet
their explosive demand for increased capacity. This is
another major step towards our goal of interconnecting the
top 100 cities for telecommunications traffic in the world,"
said Scanlon.
Pan European Crossing capitalizes on the opportunities
created by the deregulation of Europe's telecommunications
markets and will require an investment of up to $700 million
to complete the network.
Pan European Crossing will be developed in several phases,
initially providing connectivity between 13 cities: London,
Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Hamburg,
Hanover, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Frankfurt, Strasbourg, and
Copenhagen. Planned extensions to the network will connect
Lyon, Marseilles, Turin, Milan, and Zurich, and will be
completed in 2000. The Company has future plans to connect
Rome, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, and
Vienna. Global Crossing also has projects underway to
construct undersea optical fiber communication systems
interconnecting Asia and Latin America to the U.S. and
Europe.
Pan European Crossing will use the latest SDH and DWDM
technologies from leading suppliers to provide ultra high
capacity, self-healing fiber networks to connect the major
commercial centers of Europe with the world, representing a
terrestrial network of approximately 7,200 route kilometers,
and 500,000 fiber kilometers. Based on fibers per kilometer,
Pan European Crossing is by far the highest capacity
independent European network ever announced.
Capacity on the network will be marketed on a "carriers'
carrier" basis to telecom operators, such as national
carriers and emerging telecom providers, as well as Internet
Service Providers. Pan European Crossing will be composed of
multiple network rings, which will provide diverse routing
options and restoration or redundancies among all the points
of presence on the network.
Global Crossing is the world's leading independent
developer, owner and operator of open-access fiber optic
telecommunications networks. The Company has its operations
center based in Hamilton, Bermuda and holding Company
headquarters in Los Angeles, with offices in Morristown, New
Jersey; San Francisco; Miami; London; Amsterdam; and Buenos
Aires.
http://www.globalcrossing.bm/news-center.html#sept9
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http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?98101.encrossing.htm
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