GlobalCenter Provides Internet Infrastructure for Net Interstate Telematics Applications
14 December 2000
GlobalCenter Provides Internet Infrastructure for Net Interstate Telematics Applications
Leading Internet Services Company Powers Telematics Relationship Management
(TRM) Applications
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 14 GlobalCenter Inc., a Global
Crossing Ltd. subsidiary and leading Internet services company,
today announced that it has been selected by Net Interstate, a market-leading
developer of Telematics Relationship Management (TRM) applications, to help
enable its TRM applications across the emerging Telematics industry.
Telematics is an advanced automotive communication system that includes
both one-way and two-way communications technologies between a car and its
environment, allowing car drivers and their passengers to access information
such as local traffic or navigation information or find dining or shopping
locations.
Net Interstate's TRM applications have been designed to deliver benefits
to Telematics Service Providers (TSPs), resulting in enhanced revenue
opportunities through the ability to deliver detailed real-time
permission-based consumer marketing information. A key TSP benefit of Net
Interstate's TRM applications is the ability to deliver value-added,
personalized, in-car-relevant productivity tools that create 1:1 marketing
relationships with Telematics subscribers.
"We are pleased that Net Interstate has chosen GlobalCenter to provide the
Internet infrastructure behind their mission-critical operations," said
Leo Hindery, Jr., Chairman and CEO of GlobalCenter. "GlobalCenter's solid
infrastructure will provide the support Net Interstate needs as they focus on
helping the automotive industry and other TSPs to develop personalized
interactions and dialogues with their Telematics subscribers."
"By working with GlobalCenter, Net Interstate will be able to provide
secure, reliable access to subscriber-controlled TRM data across a worldwide
network of data centers" said Lawrence E. Williams, Net Interstate's President
and CEO. "This relationship will help enable our TRM applications on a global
scale, particularly in Europe and Asia Pacific."
GlobalCenter's services integrate the latest technology into an economical
outsourcing model that specializes in the four elements critical for
e-businesses to succeed in the new economy: connectivity, data centers,
on-demand Internet applications and professional services. These services
offer GlobalCenter customers reliability, cost-effectiveness, faster time to
market advantages and economies of outsourcing, significantly reducing total
cost-of-ownership with less capital and fewer internal IT staff requirements.
About Net Interstate
Net Interstate leverages the potential of the emerging Telematics market
to evolve the automotive ownership experience by enabling Telematics Service
Providers and their subscribers to achieve personalized, permission-based
1:1 relationships of mutual benefit. Through its robust Infomediary Customer
Relationship Management (iCRM) Telematics applications, Net Interstate enables
automotive manufacturers, their authorized retail dealerships and other
automotive-centric businesses to use Telematics to create highly targeted
marketing and customer care programs that cater to their subscriber's specific
interests and preferences, including on-board data applications to support
emergency roadside assistance telecommunications services. For more
information, contact info@NetInterstate.com.
About GlobalCenter
GlobalCenter Inc. is a subsidiary of Global Crossing Ltd. As a leading
Internet services company, GlobalCenter delivers an integrated Internet
solution, including the global infrastructure and performance necessary for
scale in the new economy. GlobalCenter's customers include many of the largest
and most densely trafficked sites on the Web. Global Crossing is building and
offering services over the world's most extensive global IP-based fiber optic
network, which will have more than 101,000 route miles, serving five
continents, 27 countries and more than 200 major cities. For more information
contact GlobalCenter at http://www.globalcenter.net or Global Crossing at
http://www.globalcrossing.com.
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