Global Crossing announces they are working together to expand the videoconferencing experience Global Crossing offers its customers, which now includes highly scalable and feature-rich, on-demand video-streaming.

Global Crossing is using ON24's industry-leading Webcast Center platform and Virtual Show solution in support of its suite of videoconferencing collaboration services to offer customers an interactive tool reaching audiences of thousands worldwide. Customers can leverage Global Crossing's offer to deliver a single online video platform that combines real-time, interactive and community-building capabilities of the social web with online content creation, analytics, and control.

The Webcast Center platform is a comprehensive, highly scalable and secure solution for planning, executing and managing webcasts, podcasts and rich media ad banners, extending audience reach by delivering webcasts to users directly through the Web. The Virtual Show solution enables customers to deliver highly customizable and cost-efficient virtual events for applications ranging from demand generation and corporate communications to training and continuing education initiatives. ON24 Virtual Show is a virtual venue for events such as trade shows, partner pavilions, conferences and training summits.

As an added benefit, Global Crossing has established a Virtual Private Network connection with ON24. This is a differentiator in the industry that enables cost-effective quality of service video and audio transmission to ON24's services, while leveraging Global Crossing's reliable world-wide VPN.

Global Crossing offers enterprises worldwide a full suite of converged audio, video and Web-based IP collaboration services to maximize time, resources and productivity anytime, virtually anywhere. Global Crossing's audio conferencing services include Ready-Access, Global "800" Service, VoIP Ready-Access, Event Call, Event Express Call and Automated Event Call.

Customers around the world are able to connect to Global Crossing's audio collaboration platform using a consistent worldwide dial plan. Web conferencing services include Global Crossing Web Meeting, Cisco WebEx delivered by Global Crossing, and Microsoft® Office Live Meeting from Global Crossing. The company's simple-to-use videoconferencing services include iVideoconferencing, IP Video, and Video Endpoint Management Service, supporting both ISDN and IP-based end points.