Redundant Networks Keep Globecomm Customers Online During Hurricane Irene

Redundant Networks Keep Globecomm Customers Online During Hurricane Irene

Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM), a leading global provider of communications solutions and services, successfully maintained video broadcast channels, Internet traffic, cellular switching services, and telecommunications for its customers throughout one of the biggest storms to strike the Mid-Atlantic States since the 1930s.

Globecomm’s Long Island International Teleport as well as its Laurel, Maryland Teleport facility, was in Irene’s path, which caused extensive flooding, power outages, and property damage along the east coast of the United States beginning Friday, August 26th until late Sunday, August 28^th. Early Friday morning, the company began moving television, mobile, military and business traffic across its global fiber network to back up teleports, providing seamless cutover of service for customers, including major broadcasting networks, U.S. Government Agencies, and mobile carriers using its Mobile Switching Center.

David Hershberg, Globecomm Chairman and CEO, said: “We take no chances with our customers’ mission-critical communications. That is why our network has been designed as a best-in-class teleport facility, with the diversity needed to maintain the uptime customers demand whatever the conditions.”

About Globecomm Systems

Globecomm Systems Inc., or Globecomm, is a leading global provider of satellite-based managed network solutions. Employing our expertise in emerging communication technologies we are able to offer a comprehensive suite of system integration, system products, and network services enabling a complete end-to-end solution for our customers. We believe our integrated approach of in-house design and engineering expertise combined with a world-class global network and our 24 by 7 network operating centers provides us a unique competitive advantage. We are now taking this value proposition to selective vertical markets, including government, wireless, media, enterprise, and maritime. As a network solution provider we leverage our global network to provide customers managed access services to the United States Internet backbone, video content, the public switched telephone network or their corporate headquarters, or government offices. We currently have customers for which we are providing such services in the United States, Europe, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

Based in Hauppauge, New York, Globecomm Systems also maintains offices in Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, the Netherlands, South Africa, Hong Kong, Germany, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan.

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