ATLANTA -- Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc. today announced that Global Crossing. Ltd. (NASDAQ: GX) will deploy Hitachi's AMN 6100 Ultra-Long Haul (ULH) Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer System in their North American Express Optronics Network Overbuild. Global Crossing's network will provide fast turn-up for multiple lambda services on a national level for a competitive edge. It will support multiple customer needs, thus generating new revenue services and it will support massive scaleability to respond to rapidly growing IP and data traffic demands. Deployment in more than 90 nodes throughout Global Crossing North American network will begin in the first quarter of next year (2001). When deployed with the Hitachi AMN 5192 4-Fiber BLSR or the Hitachi AMN 4100 Transmux systems (which are already standardized for use within their network) Global Crossing can now flexibly offer OC-3, OC-12 or OC-48 circuits over its DWDM backbone to their customers, fully utilizing the 10 Gb/s per channel bandwidth.

The carrier is expanding its ability to sell wavelengths (OC-12 to OC-192) - i.e., communication channels - to ISPs and any other customer that need a dedicated communication path at these rates. Hitachi's network solution offers carriers very large channel counts for optical networking over ultra-long haul distances.

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