E-Rate Services - Telecom Service Provider Partners

E-Rate Services Carrier Partners

E-Rate Services, in conjunction with Global Communications Group is proud to offer Low Cost Telecommunications Services though relationships with the following providers:  AT&T, Sprint, Qwest, Verizon, Global Crossing, Savvis, CDNetworks, Internap and XO Communications.

AT&T:

AT&T Inc. (AT&T), formerly known as SBC Communications Inc., incorporated in 1983, is primarily a holding company that provides telecommunications services in the United States and worldwide. Through its subsidiaries, the Company operates in six segments: wireline, AT&T Corp., Cingular, directory, international and other. AT&T completed the acquisition of AT&T Corp. (ATTC) on November 18, 2005. Through it subsidiaries and affiliates, the Company provides communications services and products in the United States and in 240 countries. The services and products offered by AT&T include local exchange services, wireless communications, long-distance services, data/broadband and Internet services, telecommunications equipment, managed networking, wholesale transport services, and directory advertising and publishing. The Company offers its services and products to consumers in the United States, and services and products to businesses and other providers of telecommunications services worldwide.

The Company's services and products are marketed under the AT&T and SBC brand names, as well as several other brands, including Cingular Wireless (Cingular), through AT&T's joint venture with BellSouth Corporation (BellSouth); AT&T Yahoo!, through the Company's alliance with Yahoo! Inc., and AT&T | DISH Network, through its agreement with EchoStar Communications Corp. (EchoStar). AT&T's wireline subsidiaries (SBC's traditional wireline subsidiaries) provide primarily landline telecommunications services in 13 states, including Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin (13-state area).

ATTC's subsidiaries provide landline telecommunications services to large business and governmental customers, and to a lesser degree, to small and mid-sized businesses and residential consumers. Cingular provides both wireless voice and data communications services across the United States, and is held by a wireless subsidiary of AT&T. The Company's directory subsidiaries provide services related to directory advertising and publishing. Its international subsidiaries, other than those acquired in its acquisition of ATTC, hold investments with primarily international operations, and other subsidiaries primarily provide corporate operations. AT&T is developing a network capable of delivering an integrated digital television, super-high-speed broadband and voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) services to its residential and small business customers, referred to as Project Lightspeed.

Sprint:

Sprint Nextel Corporation (Sprint Nextel), incorporated in 1938, is a global communication company offering a range of wireless and wireline communications products and services for individuals, business and government customers. The Company's operations are divided into three lines of business: wireless, long distance and local. Its sales and distribution efforts focuses on the needs of two distinct customer types: individuals, and businesses and government agencies. Its owns wireless networks and a global long distance, Tier 1 Internet backbone, and also provide regulated local exchange telephone services to approximately 7.4 million access lines in its local service territories in 18 states. On August 12, 2005, the Company's subsidiary merged with Nextel Communications, Inc.

Qwest:

Qwest Communications International Inc. (Qwest), incorporated in 1997, provides local telecommunications and related services, long-distance services, and wireless, data and video services within its local service area, which consists of the 14-state region of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Qwest also provides long-distance services, broadband data and voice communications services outside its local service area, as well as globally. The Company operates in three segments: Wireline Services, Wireless Services and Other Services. Qwest markets and sells its products and services to consumer and business customers. It also provides products and services to other telecommunications providers who purchase the Company's products and services on a wholesale basis.

Qwest's customers include consumers and small businesses, local, national and global businesses, governmental entities, and public and private educational institutions. The Company distributes its products and services to these customers through a range of channels, including direct sales, telemarketing and arrangements with third-party agents.

Verizon:

Verizon Business owns and operates one of the most expansive IP backbone networks in the world.  The Verizon Business data network includes more than 485,000 route miles, including terrestrial and undersea cable, spanning six continents and access to another 187,000 route miles from Verizon Telecom.  Verizon Business provides voice, data and Internet services on its state-of-the-art fiber-optic network to customers in more than 2,700 cities and 150 countries.  Verizon Business provides high-capacity connections to more than 120,000 buildings around the globe.  With more than 1 Terabit of aggregated backbone capacity in North America, the Verizon network carries data traffic up to 10 Gbps in the United States and 2.5 Gbps in Europe.  The Verizon Business network is large enough to circle the world 18 times.  Verizon Business currently operates eight satellite facilities located throughout the United States, Hawaii and Guam.  Verizon Business also operates satellite links to more than 200 teleports worldwide in approximately 110 countries for both government and business customers.

The Verizon Business network includes OC-192 lines that allow data transfer up to 10Gbps, the fastest commercially available today.  Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is deployed on the North American, European and Asian IP backbone networks to improve traffic engineering and management.

Verizon Business carries IP, data and voice customer traffic on its global IP network, including traffic on more than 65 submarine cable networks worldwide.  Verizon Business is the only U.S.-based provider to be a charter member of a new consortium building the Trans-Pacific Express (TPE) optical cable network system that, when completed in 2008, will link the U.S. and the China mainland.  Verizon Business is the only U.S. consortium member of the SEA-ME-WE-4 undersea cable network system that spans 20,000 kilometers and reaches 14 countries in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Western Europe.  Verizon Business is the first to deploy undersea mesh technology — providing multiple diverse paths for voice and data traffic reliability — to connect three major submarine cable systems traversing the Atlantic Ocean. Verizon Business plans to offer the same mesh diversity for its Trans-Pacific customers.

Verizon Business has five major global Network Operations Centers in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.  Verizon Business supports more than 200 data centers in 22 countries across five continents.

Global Crossing:

Global Crossing Limited (GCL) is a provider of global data and Internet protocol (IP) services to enterprises. The Company serves corporations and many other telecommunications carriers, providing a range of managed data and voice products and services. The principal services GCL offers to its customers include data, voice and conferencing services. The Company offers these services using a global IP-based network that directly connects more than 300 major cities in more than 30 countries and delivers services to more than 600 cities in more than 60 countries around the world. GCL's uCommand Web-based network management tool allows customers to securely monitor their voice and data services, create utilization reports, reroute traffic, order new services, create and track trouble tickets and perform online bill payment. On May 3, 2005, the Company sold its trader voice business (Trader Voice), which provides services primarily to the financial markets industry, to WestCom Corporation. On March 19, 2005, GCL entered into an agreement to sell its Small Business Group business (SBG) to Matrix Telecom (Matrix), a Platinum Equity company. SBG provides voice and data products to approximately 30,000 small to medium-sized businesses in the United States. The sale was consummated effective December 31, 2005.

The Company operates in three segments: enterprise, carrier data and indirect channels; carrier voice, and consumer voice, SBG and Trader Voice. The enterprise, carrier data and indirect channels segment consists of the provision of voice, data and collaboration services to all customers other than carriers, consumers, and Trader Voice and small business group; the provision of data products, including IP, transport and capacity services, to telecommunications carrier customers, and the provision of voice, data and managed services to or through business relationships with other telecommunications carriers, sales agents and system integrators. The carrier voice segment consists of the provision of United States domestic and international long-distance voice services to carrier customers. The consumer voice, small business group and Trader Voice segment consists of the provision of voice and data services to these customers.

Savvis:

Founded in 1995 and publicly traded since February 2000, SAVVIS, Inc. is one of the largest IP network and hosting providers in the world. The company is a leader in virtualized, utility-based IP VPN and hosting services for industries that require high performance, near-perfect reliability and integrated security. SAVVIS offers an expanded portfolio of IP and hosting services that businesses can “mix and match” to meet their unique requirements.

Internap:

Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP) is a leading Internet solutions company that provides The Ultimate Online Experience™ by managing, delivering, distributing and monetizing content and applications with unsurpassed performance and reliability. With a global platform of data centers, managed Internet services, a content delivery network (CDN) and content monetization services, Internap frees its customers to innovate their business and create new revenue opportunities.

More than 3,000 customers across the globe trust Internap to help them achieve their Internet business goals. Our customers range from some of the most trusted names in business today, to cutting edge user-generated content and video blog applications, to relatively unknown start-ups.

Internap provides the tools you need to change the way you do business. And no single company can match the depth and breadth of the Internap technology portfolio and services delivery platform:

• Single-source Internet solutions provider
• Secure data / applications facilities
• Proprietary intelligent route control technology
• Reliable, resilient connection to customers
• Rich media streaming and distribution
• Maximize value of content/web presence

• CDNetworks:

  CDNetworks is Asia's largest CDN service provider. With server farms in more than 40 regions worldwide, it is one of world's three largest CDN enterprises. Having introduced an online game download service and South Korea's first DVD-quality high resolution video service, CDNetworks leads the latest technologies related to Internet services such as e-learning, online shopping and online games.
  
  The company has solidified its position as a technology-oriented company by focusing on its extensive technical capabilities and service expertise accumulated over the years of global experience, and has turned its core values into assets. Furthermore, by extending its reach as a total IT outsourcing service provider for Internet companies, it is positioning itself as a true partner for companies in the Internet and content business.
  
  With success stories that include the handling of 220,000 simultaneous users and 40Gbps traffic during the WBC (World Baseball Classic) in 2006, and handling 1million viewers for the live Internet broadcast of the 2006 World Cup, CDNetworks is handling the majority of live Internet content delivery at domestic portal and media sites. It leads the world CDN market. thanks to its unrivaled technical capability in video streaming, large volume file download and image caching.

XO:

The XO® leadership team is comprised of experienced communications industry executives who recognized a need for a communications company that could stand apart from the others. Under their leadership, XO has created and improved the solutions it delivers and has expanded its geographic coverage across the United States. Their mission -- and that of the company's 4,800 employees -- is to provide communications solutions that are simple yet backed by a sophisticated network of products and outstanding customer service.

XO® has a wealth of network assets that ensure we can handle your current needs and that we're well positioned for the convergence of voice and data IP services. XO has an OC-192 IP backbone with OC-12 uplinks in our markets and data centers; that means we have one of the highest capacity and scalable IP backbones in the industry, along with the highest levels of performance and reliability. A suite of world-class tools that facilitate the communication of customer information and continuous network monitoring set the XO network apart from its rivals.

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