Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC) announced today that it is bolstering its five-year relationship with leading content delivery network (CDN) Limelight Networks. The two companies have entered into a new agreement which supports Limelight's global distributed delivery of rich content, including video on demand, music downloads and streaming media to audiences of any size.


"Our customers' global audience demands uninterrupted access to a broad -- and growing -- range of digital media," said Nathan Raciborski, chief technical officer of Limelight Networks. "Global Crossing's extensive global reach, high capacity backbone and advanced peering capabilities are key components of our solution."


CDNs like Limelight Networks are playing a critical role in the growth of the Internet, where new communities based on shared interests and other non-geographical criteria are creating and consuming massive amounts of on-demand online content.


"Our wholly owned network and global capabilities are ideally suited to support Limelight Networks as they distribute extremely large content that is frequently and simultaneously accessed by global audiences," said Ted Higase, Global Crossing's executive vice president, worldwide carrier services. "We're focused on providing them with the unwavering quality of service and reliability that supports their business execution."


An intelligently architected, high-capacity backbone that can scale quickly to handle high volumes and peak audiences without impacting performance quality is essential to the enjoyment of rich content. Global Crossing's wavelength service is a flexible alternative to dark fiber and traditional capacity services, providing bandwidth on demand, expanded market coverage and increased speed-to-market cost effectively, while eliminating unnecessary overhead and functional duplication across the network.


Limelight Networks also utilizes Global Crossing's IP Transit Service (IPT) at its distributed facilities for rich content transport. IPT runs over Global Crossing's worldwide, self-healing, Tier 1 IP network, utilizing more than 200 private peering interconnects with capacity of nearly 200 Gbps for high-performance, always-on, easily scalable, high-speed connectivity to the Internet.


Global Crossing's uCommand(R) customer service portal, a unique offering that delivers 24x7 self-service autonomy to customers, enables Limelight Networks to order data services, monitor its network, create utilization reports, establish end-user and product accounts, and view monthly billing reports.


A recognized industry leader and innovator, Global Crossing received Capacity's 2005 "Best Global Wholesale Provider" award for its outstanding customer service, network availability and suite of services.


In addition to consistently delivering 99.999-percent availability -- the industry's highest standard -- over its global IP backbone, Global Crossing recently made network performance history when its multi-gigabit fiber optic network supported the world record in international visualization, a 19.5-Gbps stream between Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and San Diego, California, carrying a single application showing actual scientific content.


ABOUT LIMELIGHT NETWORKS


Privately held Limelight Networks is the leading content delivery network for Internet distribution of video, music, games, and downloads. Limelight's advanced content delivery network provides the world's top media companies high-performance delivery of media and software via the Internet, making Limelight Networks the content delivery network of choice for more than 400 world-class customers including Akimbo, ABC Radio Networks, Belo Interactive, "BuyMusic" @ Buy.com, DreamWorks, LLC, IFILM, Live365, Marimba, MSNBC.com, NC Interactive, NPR, Real Networks Rhapsody, Radio Free Virgin, Valve Software, and Xbox Live. For more information, visit: http://www.llnw.com


ABOUT GLOBAL CROSSING


Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC) provides telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network. Its core network connects more than major 300 cities and 30 countries worldwide, and delivers services to more than 600 cities, 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 managed data and voice products including Global Crossing IP VPN Service, Global Crossing Managed Services and Global Crossing VoIP services, to 36 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs.


Please visit http://www.globalcrossing.com for more information about Global Crossing.


Statements in this press release about expected future events and financial results are forward-looking and subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially, including risks referenced from time to time in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Global Crossing undertakes no duty to update information contained in this press release or in other public disclosures at any time.


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