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04-29-2004, 10:21 PM #1New Member
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gblx ( global crossing ) opinions?
Hi everyone I'm new to the board, I just stumbled across this site today.
Anyway, I was talking to our net admin today ( we are a small ISP in St Louis ) and he's looking for a failover link to augment our connection to UUnet. He got a bid from global crossing aka gblx and neither of us really know much about them.
I spent a couple hours this morning reading through these forums and I came to the conclusion that there are quite a few knowledgeable people here so I figured what the hell, I'll toss it out and see what they say. I did a bit of googlin' on them but I really ahvent seen anything in the way of "customer testamonials"
So...anyone have any experience with them?
--L0stm4n
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04-29-2004, 11:01 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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GBLX has pretty good connection to Asia, not to mention they have good peerings around.
My provider, CyberWurx uses GBLX as well and the latency has been superb! You can count on them Anyway, its just backup failover, it will serve you good.
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04-30-2004, 09:54 AM #3Newbie
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Agreed, for a backup/failover, GBLX should be fine. The recently went through bankruptcy/reorganization but seem to be coming out of that well off. Good luck.
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04-30-2004, 10:38 AM #4Disabled
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you could say that (coming out of bankruptcy) about worldcom and xo and abovenet too.
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04-30-2004, 12:35 PM #5WHT Addict
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We've been using them for several years now and have been genuinely pleased. The biggest headache was the provisioning part, but once we got it turned up, its worked like a charm.
Don't know of any reps in your area, back Jack Downs is the sales rep that I am familiar with. If he can't help you, he will turn you on to who can.
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05-01-2004, 02:24 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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What are you guys talking about? Global Crossing is very strong.
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05-01-2004, 02:31 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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I'm not a fan of GLBX in the New York area, I have had some problems with them when I was at NAC.
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05-01-2004, 04:05 PM #8CISSP-ISSMP, CISA
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I would venture to say that your problems were with NAC itself, not GBLX.
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05-05-2004, 09:16 AM #9Aspiring Evangelist
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Kind of off topic but there was an article in the Wall Street Journal (yesterday or day before) about Global Crossing in that they were not doing their financial statements well. They were going to have to go back and restate revenue for the last few years and were pulling their estimates for this year.
The article alluded to the fact that they also needed current funding and possibly were going to be in trouble if they didn't find more money from investors. Of course the article went on to say that this might not happen because of the recent accounting and that investors might not want to see their in such a risky adventure whereby the company needs a cash infusion every six months.Richard
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05-06-2004, 02:51 AM #10Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by beachtrader
Kind of off topic but there was an article in the Wall Street Journal (yesterday or day before) about Global Crossing in that they were not doing their financial statements well. They were going to have to go back and restate revenue for the last few years and were pulling their estimates for this year.
The article alluded to the fact that they also needed current funding and possibly were going to be in trouble if they didn't find more money from investors. Of course the article went on to say that this might not happen because of the recent accounting and that investors might not want to see their in such a risky adventure whereby the company needs a cash infusion every six months.http://Ethr.net jay@ethr.net
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05-06-2004, 03:23 AM #11THE Web Hosting Master
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I would hardly call being forced to be de-listed from NASDAQ "doing well." Global Crossing may soon be going on their final dive, doubt the courts will give them a second chance.
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05-06-2004, 07:58 AM #12Web Hosting Master
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I would venture to say that your problems were with NAC itself, not GBLX.
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05-06-2004, 08:16 AM #13CISSP-ISSMP, CISA
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Didn't NAC have other routes you could utilize? Its not as if you were stuck on GBLX right?
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05-06-2004, 08:51 AM #14Junior Guru
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Re: gblx ( global crossing ) opinions?
Originally posted by L0stm4n
Hi everyone I'm new to the board, I just stumbled across this site today.
Anyway, I was talking to our net admin today ( we are a small ISP in St Louis ) and he's looking for a failover link to augment our connection to UUnet. He got a bid from global crossing aka gblx and neither of us really know much about them.
I spent a couple hours this morning reading through these forums and I came to the conclusion that there are quite a few knowledgeable people here so I figured what the hell, I'll toss it out and see what they say. I did a bit of googlin' on them but I really ahvent seen anything in the way of "customer testamonials"
So...anyone have any experience with them?
--L0stm4n
W've got a nice offer from them for our Datcenter is germany, will see, I'll may gonna sign up with them.. not sure jet
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05-06-2004, 04:42 PM #15Taking a break from hosting
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Originally posted by incipio
Agreed, for a backup/failover, GBLX should be fine. The recently went through bankruptcy/reorganization but seem to be coming out of that well off. Good luck.
-Josh
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05-06-2004, 05:33 PM #16Web Hosting Master
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Didn't NAC have other routes you could utilize? Its not as if you were stuck on GBLX right?
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05-08-2004, 08:58 AM #17Newbie
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I like GBLX (well their share price has already gained me 40%)
bankruptcy seems unlikely now, basically people heard they had possible financial errors, remember MCI/worldcom and got worried. What is being mentioned now is that it is alot smaller than initially thought and not likely to have an effect on long term profits.