NEW YORK-The $5 billion Internet backbone upgrade that Teleglobe Communications Corp., Reston, Va., announced last week is intended to meet the growing cross-border data communications needs of its wireless and wireline carrier customers.
The five-year project, called GlobeSystem, will be comprised of new and newly acquired terrestrial and submarine fiber systems that will interconnect Teleglobe facilities in 160 cities worldwide. The company said this will be the first global-scale deployment of “advanced technology enabling stand-alone voice, Internet, data and video networks to converge on a single, efficient network.”
The entire GlobeSystem network will interconnect with wireless carriers, said Andrew Burroughs, vice president of global marketing and product management for Teleglobe.
Teleglobe already offers a signaling conversion platform to authorize and transmit international roaming calls placed by customers of 120 GSM carriers, he said.
