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First published in 1872,
Around the World in Eighty Days (Le
tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours)
is a classic adventure novel by
Jules Verne.
In the story,
Phileas Fogg
of
London
and his newly employed French valet,
Passepartout
attempt to circumnavigate the
world in 80 days by any method that
will carry them: hot-air balloon,
train, boat, and elephant -- a feat
previously reserved for only the
most heroic and hardy of
adventurers.*
Today, Global Crossing’s leading IP
network is circumnavigating the
world, transporting and peering
voice packets from city to city,
country to country, and continent to
continent -- but in milliseconds,
not days.
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In keeping with the spirit of
“around-the-world” feats, Global
Crossing Carrier VoIP Outbound
Services are now available in
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile,
Hong Kong, and Singapore. This
coverage adds to existing
availability in Canada, the United
States, and 20 different countries
in Europe. Further, Global
Crossing’s VoIP Outbound Services
offers a predicable monthly
recurring charge (MRC)-based cost
model that provides revenue
protection against declining
rates.
Flexibility, security, and quality
are among the advantages of Global
Crossing Carrier VoIP Outbound
Service, as well as three different
access methods that allow carriers
to match Quality of Service levels
to their end-user requirements.
Customers can choose to connect
through Global Crossing IP VPN
Service™, Global Crossing IP Transit
service or the public Internet.
Global Crossing also has deployed
session border controllers (SBCs) to
provide a secure interconnection
point between Global Crossing’s and
the carriers' networks. Security,
quality, and performance are never
compromised because traffic is
managed over the entire Global
Crossing MPLS private backbone, not
just the network edges. This
minimizes packet loss, jitter and
latency – three critical network
attributes required by voice and
other real-time applications.
Also new to Global Crossing’s
Carrier VoIP Outbound Services is
the value-add of joining a global IP
peering community. Global
Crossing’s Carrier VoIP Community
Peering enables carriers’ customers
who originate a call with Global
Crossing Carrier VoIP Outbound
Service to terminate -- usage-free
-- to any Global
Crossing-provisioned local services
number (DID/DDI) worldwide. Call
flows of this type originate and
terminate exclusively on the Global
Crossing network and do not rely on
the public-switched telephone
network for completion. Therefore,
since the call is completely handled
on the Global Crossing VoIP network,
no per-minute settlement charge is
applied, and the carrier gleans a
higher margin on their VoIP
services.
“As peering becomes an underlying
driver for worldwide presence-based
capabilities, Global Crossing
Carrier VoIP Community Peering
customers will be better positioned
to lead their business customers
towards converged services,” says
Anthony Christie, Chief Marketing
Officer and Executive Vice
President. “VoIP is a leading
enabler of IP convergence, and with
Global Crossing, carriers are in a
better position to meet these
needs. Global Crossing’s network
fully supports interoperable legacy
and IP-based services, offering
carriers the ability to transition
end users to IP at their own pace.”
Global Crossing’s global IP network
and services allows carriers to cost
effectively extend VoIP services to
all their end-user locations around
the world – no hot-air balloon
required.
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From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
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