Global Crossing Builds 29-Site IP VPN for Engineering and Architectural Firm Carter & Burgess
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o Carter & Burgess moves to Global Crossing IP VPN to boost bandwidth, improve network efficiency and ensure business continuity.
o Global Crossing's IP VPN will speed and increase productivity of Carter & Burgess' essential business applications, such as CAD.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J., Oct. 3 / -- Global Crossing (NASDAQ:GLBC) today announced that it is deploying a new Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) for Carter & Burgess, Inc., a full-service multidiscipline engineering and architectural consulting firm. The fully redundant IP-based network will replace a frame relay network Carter & Burgess uses for its primary business needs.
"Carter & Burgess' 'One Source, One Firm' operating philosophy emphasizes a close strategic partnership with clients over the lifecycle of their projects. From planning and conception to execution, operations and maintenance, clients can expect a uniform experience across all offices and teams. With more than 3,000 employees and a diverse range of engineering, construction and architectural projects around the U.S., Carter & Burgess needed a solution that would improve network efficiencies today and allow us to add new technologies in the near and distant future," said Brad Wright, chief information officer, Carter & Burgess. "Global Crossing's flexible, reliable and secure IP-based network will provide a strong technology backbone to help us confidently and quickly anticipate and react to changing business conditions and customer needs."
The new IP VPN will be deployed to 29 locations in the United States, including diverse cities such as Bentonville, Arkansas; St. George, Utah; and Baltimore, Maryland. It will serve as the primary platform for a converged IP solution that will enable Carter & Burgess to add technologies, such as audio and video conferencing and Voice over IP (VoIP). The IP VPN also will help Carter & Burgess cost-effectively improve the efficiency of business-critical applications such as Computer Aided Design (CAD) by providing increased bandwidth that will speed downloads and communication among sites. By enhancing the speed of large-file downloads, such as blueprints, the company will increase productivity, improve work flow and quicken decision making.
The IP VPN's fully redundant design with two data centers in disparate locations also will provide Carter & Burgess a business continuity solution in the event of unforeseen service interruptions or natural disasters.
"Global Crossing's IP leadership, superior customer experience and reliable network, proved to Carter & Burgess that our IP VPN solution would best help them meet the challenges of their business," said Mike Toplisek, Global Crossing's senior vice president of global enterprise and collaboration services. "Whether they're building a new hotel in Las Vegas or expanding a major highway in Denver, Global Crossing's IP VPN will support Carter & Burgess with increased bandwidth and improved networking efficiencies, as well as provide a clear and easy pathway to IP convergence."
Global Crossing IP VPN service is the platform for converged IP services, and is an end-to-end managed services environment for data, voice, video and multimedia applications. The service provides customers straightforward network design, administration, and connectivity, as well as billing and customer care. Global Crossing helps customers easily and cost-effectively migrate to a fully managed, converged IP environment, while offering a full suite of interoperable services that leverage the company's unique global IP footprint. The company also provides the infrastructure to safely transport business communications through a fully secure, high-performance, reliable and highly scalable IP network.
ABOUT CARTER & BURGESS
Founded in 1939, Carter & Burgess offers engineering, architectural, and related services with 3,000 employees in more than 30 offices across the country. Its One Source, One Firm(SM) operating philosophy emphasizes a close strategic partnership with clients over the lifecycle of their projects. From planning and conception to execution, operations, and maintenance, its clients can expect a uniform experience across all offices and teams. Carter & Burgess' core expertise resides in every major industry and includes anything with roofs or walls; anything that moves people, material, energy, or water; and anything that organizes and beautifies the landscape -- everything vertical and horizontal in the built environment.
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 300 cities in 28 countries worldwide, and delivers services to more than 600 cities in 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 Solutions and Global Crossing VoIP services, to 36 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs.
Please visit www.globalcrossing.com/ for more information about Global Crossing.
CONTACT GLOBAL CROSSING:
Press Contacts
Tisha Kresler
+ 1 973 937 0146
PR@globalcrossing.com
Kendra Langlie
Latin America
+ 1 305 808 5912
LatAmPR@globalcrossing.com
Mish Desmidt
Europe
+ 44 (0) 1256 732 866
EuropePR@globalcrossing.com
CONTACT CARTER & BURGESS:
Chris Fox
+ 1 817 735 6212
chris.fox@c-b.com
Source: Global Crossing
