FLORHAM PARK, New Jersey, September 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Plans to Open Amsterdam Data Center to Meet European Demand

Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC), a leading IP solutions provider, today
revealed that it has broadened the scope of services offered in its London
data center at Docklands by making available hosting managed services, such
as monitoring, backup, security, server management and storage solutions,
specifically Hitachi Data Systems data storage capabilities. The company also
announced plans to expand its London facility and to open a new data center
in Amsterdam.

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The company's Docklands data center is nearly filled to capacity with 89
percent of the available space sold. As a result, Global Crossing has
embarked on Phase II of that build-out and already has pre-sold 10 percent of
the additional racks available to prospective customers. In addition, a new
center in Amsterdam is part of the firm's plans to continue the modular
development of its hosting solutions business in Europe. The Amsterdam
facility will be available in early 2009.

"Global Crossing is focused on corporate customers, and we're investing
in the value-added services that are essential to them, such as the hosting
solutions we provide through our data centers," said Anthony Christie,
managing director, EMEA. "Our customers include more than 130 UK government
departments and agencies, as well as the transportation and commercial
segments. As the largest IT and data market in Europe, meeting the needs of
the UK market gives us unprecedented opportunities. But we also plan to
explore other opportunities throughout Europe so we can extend our already
extensive network footprint."

Among the expanded capabilities now available from the London data center
are resilient storage infrastructure solutions underpinned by Hitachi Data
Systems hardware and software. By partnering with an industry-leading storage
provider, Global Crossing is enabling its customers to address their data
storage challenges in a highly cost effective manner.

Information has never been more critical to the survival of a business.
The explosive growth of data-intensive applications and an increasing
reliance on information as a competitive differentiator have made data
storage a central component of corporate strategies. These enhanced
capabilities can help Global Crossing address the concerns of IT
organizations, including availability and speed of access to data and the
ability to securely share data inside and outside of the enterprise.

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 one of the world's most
extensive global IP networks. 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.

Global Crossing also offers solutions that allow customers to focus on
their businesses while Global Crossing manages and administers the entire IT
infrastructure and network for them. Global Crossing's hosting solutions
provide customers housing, equipment, storage, backup and monitoring, as well
as managed services that free them to run their application or Web site.

On-Demand Solutions let customers use what they need when they need it,
including network capacity, storage, processing power and managed services.
They enable customers to respond rapidly and adequately to the demands of
their clients or other business opportunities.

Global Crossing Continuity Solutions provide preventive tools and
redundancy capabilities that keep businesses running or help minimize any
potential economic losses caused by an unexpected incident. Interruptions in
service could be caused by natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes,
or floods, or by social problems, fires or technology problems.

Several of Global Crossing's data centers in Latin America have received
a Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) 70 review, which is a widely
recognized auditing standard that evaluates the design and operating
effectiveness of controls that have specific objectives, such as the security
of financial information. This review, which Global Crossing will consider
for its European data center facilities, is especially important to large
businesses and is being increasingly accepted by government organizations and
private companies that seek an independent opinion to confirm the
effectiveness of a provider's processes and internal controls structure. It
also simplifies their auditing processes and potentially can save them time
and reduce their costs.

ABOUT GLOBAL CROSSING

Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC) provides telecommunications solutions over
the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core network
connects approximately 400 cities in more than 45 countries worldwide, and
delivers services to more than 690 cities in more than 60 countries and 6
continents around the globe. The company's global sales and support model
matches the network footprint and, like the network, delivers a consistent
customer experience worldwide.

Global Crossing IP services are global in scale, linking the world's
enterprises, governments and carriers with customers, employees and partners
worldwide in a secure environment that is ideally suited for IP-based
business applications, allowing e-commerce to thrive. The company offers a
full range of data, voice and security products to approximately 40 percent
of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs. Its
Professional Services and Managed Solutions provide VoIP, security and
network consulting and management services to support its Global Crossing IP
VPN service and Global Crossing VoIP services. Global Crossing was the first
global communications provider with IPv6 natively deployed in both its
private and public backbone networks.

Please visit www.globalcrossing.com or blogs.globalcrossing.com for more
information about Global Crossing.

CONTACT GLOBAL CROSSING:
    Press Contacts
    Kate Rankin
    Kate.Rankin@globalcrossing.com
    +1-973-937-0417

    Michael Schneider
    Michael.Schneider@globalcrossing.com
    +1-973-937-0146

    Analysts/Investors Contact
    Suzanne Lipton
    glbc@globalcrossing.com
    +1-800-836-0342


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