Major cables in the Global Crossing Network include:

• Atlantic Crossing 1 (AC-1), linking New York, the UK, the Netherlands and Germany with 14,000 km of bi-directional transport capacity shared over four fiber pairs to provide initial transmission capacity of 40 Gbps
• Atlantic Crossing 2 (AC-2), a four fiber pair, 1.28 Tbps cable system that was completed in November 2000 under a joint build agreement with Level 3
• North American Crossing, linking major US cities and spanning 20,000 route miles.  The network is configured in 13 bi-directional line switched rings (BLSRs).
• Global Access Limited (GAL), a terrestrial fiber network connecting Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, Japan
• Pan European Crossing (PEC), linking major European cities with 25,000 km of optical fiber
• Pacific Crossing (PC-1), a four-fiber-pair system linking the US and Asia via Japan with 80 Gbps capacity
• Mid-Atlantic Crossing (MAC), a two-fiber-pair system linking the eastern US and the Caribbean
• PAC, a 9,500 km two-fiber-pair cable linking the US, Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean
• South American Crossing (SAC), a 16,000 km, four-fiber-pair system encircling South America
• Mexican Crossing, a 3,500 km ring linking Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey and Tijauna
• East Asia Crossing (EAC), an 18,740 km cable linking Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore

FCC ISSUES ANNUAL REPORT ON US WIRELESS COMPETITION
The Federal Communications Commission adopted a report on the state of competition of the US wireless industry for 2000.  Highlights of the report include:

• Carriers building nationwide footprints continued to be a significant trend in the mobile telephony sector
• During 2000, mobile telephony generated over $52.5 billion in revenues, increased subscribership from 86.0 million to 109.5 million, and produced a nationwide penetration rate of roughly 39%
• 259 million people, or almost 91% of the total US population, have access to three or more different operators (cellular, broadband PCS, and/or digital SMR providers)
• 75% of the US population lives in areas with five or more mobile telephone operators competing to offer service
• Digital customers made up 62% of the industry total, up from 51% at the end of 1999 and 30% in 1998
• The price of mobile telephone service declined by 12.3% during 2000
• The mobile data sector has continued its transition from paging/messaging to mobile Internet access services.  Seven major mobile telephone operators have begun offering mobile data services, including "wireless web," Short Messaging Service, and e-mail on mobile telephone handsets.  At the end of 2000, there was a combined total of 2.5 million mobile Internet users in the US.

http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Wireless/News_Releases/2001/nrwl0117.html
FCC, June 21, 2001

• As of June 17, 2001, Japan's NTT DoCoMo had 24.5 million subscribers to its i-mode service.
• i-mode is based on a packet-data (9600bps) transmission system in which subscribers are charged according to the volume of data transmitted, not the time spent on line.

HUGHES LAUNCHES MARKETING CAMPAIGN FOR DIRECWAY BROADBAND-BY-SATELLITE SERVICES
Hughes Network Systems (HNS) launched a marketing campaign for its DIRECWAY broadband-by-satellite services for businesses and consumers.  HNS has formed alliances with a number of service providers (AOL, Earthlink, Juno and Pegasus), including new ones to be announced soon, that will market the service through highly targeted advertising and promotions.
http://www.direcway.com/
HNS, June 21, 2001

• By the end of 2002 Hughes is also planning to launch Ka-band satellites for advanced, two-way coverage across North America.
• In April, Hughes completed its $179 million cash acquisition of Telocity, which operates a DSL network active in 150 US metropolitan areas.  Hughes plans to integrate the broadband delivery capabilities of the Telocity service with DIRECTV, the leading provider of digital multichannel entertainment in the US with more than 9.5 million customers.
• Hughes’s DirecPC satellite service (with landline modem return) has 116,000 subscribers.
• To date, Hughes has delivered over 400,000 VSAT network terminals in 85 countries.

NORLIGHT DEPLOYS HITACHI’S DWDM
Norlight Telecommunications, a wholesale carrier based in Wisconsin, has deployed Hitachi’s Advanced Multiservice Network (AMN) 6100 Ultra-Long Haul DWDM on their SONET backbone.  The new DWDM system offers a channel capacity of up to 512 OC-48 channels or 2048 OC-12 channels.  Financial terms were not disclosed.  http://www.hitel.com
Hitachi, June 21, 2001

EL PASO GLOBAL NETWORKS CHOOSES CLARITY FOR INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
El Paso Global Networks selected Clarity to provide inventory and order management software for telecommunications and merchant trading on its forthcoming IP and optical network across the US.  El Paso plans to offer bandwidth trading, whereby carriers and service providers purchase bandwidth at variable market rates.  Clarity products will be used to manage and track network assets, manage cost capacity, provision on-demand orders for capacity, and model historical, current and future network positions.  Financial terms were not disclosed.  Clarity is based in Sydney, Australia.  El Paso is one of the largest natural gas companies in the world.  http://www.clarity.com
Clarity, June 21, 2001

• In February, El Paso Global Networks selected Cisco Systems for an end-to-end IP+Optical infrastructure network that will ultimately reach 34 metropolitan areas.
• Last July, Broadwing Communications signed a network construction services agreement with El Paso Global Networks to build a multiple duct optical fiber system between Los Angeles and Houston, primarily along a portion of El Paso’s rights-of-way.  As additional consideration for its construction services, Broadwing will have access to multiple ducts of the project.

WIND SELECTS JUNIPER’S M160 ROUTERS FOR MPLS SERVICES
Wind, a second national carrier in Italy, selected Juniper Networks’ M160 Internet backbone routers for the core of its network.  Wind is offering MPLS services and global IP convergence for fixed, mobile, and Internet telephony.  Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.juniper.net/news/pressreleases/2001/pr-010621.html
Juniper Networks, June 21, 2001

NETTEST AND OPNET INTEGRATE PNNI TESTING AND NETWORK PLANNING TOOLS
NetTest (GN Nettest) has integrated its PNNI interEMULATOR Network Emulation System with network planning software from OPNET.  The integration provides NetTest's PNNI interEMULATOR with the ability to import network topology and parametric information directly from the OPNET environment. The companies said the combination of network planning and real-time testing functions would eliminate labor intensive network modeling data entry, while ensuring rapid network deployment of complex PNNI networks.
http://www.nettest.com/pages/2001063.htm
http://www.opnet.com/
NetTest, June 21, 2001