Global Crossing Signs $700 Million Contract To Provide CSC’s Global Network

Added: (Thu Nov 08 2001)

Pressbox (Press Release) - · Global Crossing to develop and manage global wide area data and voice network infrastructure for CSC

· Global Crossing designated as preferred provider of network and IP services to CSC customers

· Global Crossing and CSC plan to co-market integrated, end-to-end solutions to multinational enterprises


Hamilton, Bermuda – November 8, 2001 -- Global Crossing Ltd. (NYSE: GX) announced today that it has been chosen by Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) to manage and provide telecommunication services for CSC’s global wide area data and voice network in a twelve-year contract valued at $700 million.

Global Crossing's fiber optic infrastructure, range of advanced Internet Protocol (IP) services, and proven outsourcing expertise will be leveraged by CSC to upgrade and manage its corporate wide area network. The agreement makes Global Crossing one of the preferred providers of networking services for CSC and its customers.

The agreement with Global Crossing expands CSC’s network reach, supporting its competitive positioning as a global information technology (IT) service and outsourcing solutions leader. As one of CSC’s preferred providers, Global Crossing will team with CSC to deliver integrated solutions to multinational enterprises over a shared, fully managed, global IP network. Global Crossing will provide wide area network, Internet Protocol virtual private network (IP VPN), and converged data and voice services, and CSC will provide local area network (LAN) management services.

"We are pleased to have been selected by CSC to take on a mission-critical project of this scale. As one of the leading consulting and IT services firms, CSC's standards are the highest in the world, and we value their confidence in our capabilities to deliver converged solutions," said John Legere, chief executive officer, Global Crossing and Asia Global Crossing. "We share a common vision with CSC to fundamentally change the way large global enterprises conduct business by utilizing advanced IP communications technologies. We’ve built and we manage the first truly global fiber optic network designed to deliver IP services, and that accomplishment, combined with our network services expertise, makes Global Crossing uniquely positioned to serve global companies like CSC.“

The Global Crossing network connects hundreds of major business centers worldwide. A key factor in CSC’s choice of Global Crossing was the reach of Global Crossing’s globally managed IP network. CSC’s infrastructure includes 1,500 end points, approximately half of which are located outside North America, as well as connectivity to 18 major data facilities throughout the United States, Australia, Europe and Asia.

”This agreement helps expand CSC’s global reach and provides our r company and our customers with the most extensive managed IP services in the world,” said Van B Honeycutt, CSC’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. ”This helps us fulfill our own as well as our customers’ needs for end-to-end, fully managed solutions. In turn, we enable new applications for our customers to ensure that they get their own products and services to market more quickly.”

"The strategic relationship between CSC and Global Crossing clearly demonstrates CSC's confidence in Global Crossing's ability to manage the CSC network as well as provide global networking services to their large multinational customers," said Eileen Eastman, vice president, Communication Services, the Yankee Group.

Additionally, the companies intend to co-market their services to provide multinational enterprises with an integrated portfolio of managed, desktop-to-desktop IP services. The relationship leverages the complementary strengths of Global Crossing’s global fiber optic network assets and IP capabilities with the full range of CSC's leading IT services offerings.

In the Asia Pacific region, CSC's network operations will be managed by Asia Global Crossing, a subsidiary of Global Crossing.

The new agreement significantly expands the already successful relationship between the two companies and represents a new revenue stream from CSC. Global Crossing has been providing services to CSC through the early implementation of CSC's Integrated Global Network, which will connect CSC facilities and clients worldwide. Deployment of CSC's internal network onto Global Crossing's IP backbone began during the first quarter of 2001 at CSC offices and data centers in North America, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Australia, South Africa, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur.

In a separate agreement, Global Crossing is outsourcing to CSC outsource its IT infrastructure, including mainframe and midrange computers, desktop computers, help-desk operations, and disaster recovery. Global Crossing will leverage CSC’s scale to simultaneously lower costs and improve service and quality while allowing internal resources to focus on areas of strategic importance.

ABOUT GLOBAL CROSSING
Global Crossing Ltd. (NYSE: GX) provides telecommunications solutions over the world's first integrated global IP-based network, which reaches 27 countries and more than 200 major cities around the globe. Global Crossing serves many of the world's largest corporations, providing a full range of managed data and voice products and services. Global Crossing operates throughout the Americas, Europe, and provides services in Asia through its subsidiary, Asia Global Crossing (NYSE: AX). Global Crossing provides integrated telecommunications solutions, including network outsourcing, to large global enterprises. Please visit www.globalcrossing.com or www.asiaglobalcrossing.com for more information.

ABOUT ASIA GLOBAL CROSSING
Asia Global Crossing (NYSE: AX), a public company whose largest shareholders include Global Crossing (NYSE: GX), Softbank (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 9984), and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), provides the Asia Pacific region with a full range of integrated telecommunications and IP services. Through a combination of undersea cables, terrestrial networks, city fiber rings and complex web hosting data centers, Asia Global Crossing is building one of the first truly pan-Asian networks, which, in combination with the worldwide Global Crossing Network, will provide the Asia Pacific region with seamless access to major business centers worldwide. As part of its strategy to provide city-to-city connectivity, Asia Global Crossing partners with leading companies in each country it connects to provide backhaul networks.

ABOUT CSC
Computer Sciences Corporation, one of the world's leading consulting and information technology (IT) services firms, helps clients in industry and government achieve strategic and operational results through the use of technology. The company's success is based on its culture of working collaboratively with clients to develop innovative technology strategies and solutions that address specific business challenges.

Having guided clients through every major wave of change in information technology since 1959, CSC combines the newest technologies with its capabilities in consulting, systems design and integration, IT and business process outsourcing, applications software, and Web and application hosting to meet the individual needs of global corporations and organizations. With some 68,000 employees in location worldwide, CSC had revenues of $11.1 billion for the 12 months ended September 28, 2001. It is headquartered in El Segundo, Calif. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.csc.com.


Statements made in this press release that state the Company's or management's intentions, beliefs, expectations, or predictions for the future are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements. These risks, assumptions and uncertainties include: the ability to complete systems within currently estimated time frames and budgets; the ability to compete effectively in a rapidly evolving and price competitive marketplace; changes in the nature of telecommunications regulation in the United States and other countries; changes in business strategy; the successful integration of newly-acquired businesses; the impact of technological change; and other risks referenced from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

CONTACT GLOBAL CROSSING

Mish Desmidt:
Tel: +44 (0)118 908 6788
Mobile: +44 (0)7771 66 84 38
mailto:mish.desmidt@globalcrossing.com

Valerie Weisenreder/Josephine Bowen
Bandwidth Consultancy
Tel: +44 20 7693 7000
mailto:valerie@bbpr.com / mailto:josephine@bbpr.com

Analysts/Investors Contact
Ken Simril
+ 1 310 385 5200
mailto:investors@globalcrossing.com