Summer Bay Resorts, Pentax Medical and The Riverside Company Leverage Global Crossing's IP Network and CDW to Simplify Their Global Telecommunications Solutions

VERNON HILLS, Ill. -- CDW Corporation (NASDAQ:CDWC), a leading provider of technology products and services to business, government and education, today demonstrated the business value of consolidating and simplifying an organization's telecommunications infrastructure. CDW provided design assistance to implement simplified, converged audio, video and data network solutions for Summer Bay Resorts, Pentax Medical and The Riverside Company, unlocking the solutions' business value and encouraging profitable revenue growth for the customers.

CDW works with a broad set of telecommunications partners, including Global Crossing (NASDAQ:GLBC), a leading global provider of telecommunications solutions, to provide services and products that meet customers' business and technology requirements alike. Global Crossing's portfolio of fully managed, converged IP services includes Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), IP VPN, Remote VPN access, Internet Access and IP Video designed to meet the exacting performance and reliability needs of customers' mission-critical communications. These services are supported by a comprehensive suite of managed solutions, simplifying the management and maintenance and improving the security and reliability of the converged IP solution.

"Organic and acquisition-driven growth can create a tangle of telecommunications contracts and systems that constrain a company's growth and sap valuable resources from new initiatives," said Ian Kieninger, manager of CDW's Voice and Data Specialist Team. "Working with telecommunications providers such as Global Crossing, CDW can cut through that tangle to consolidate, simplify and reduce the cost of telecommunications. The net result is fewer resources spent on maintenance and more resources available for business investment."

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Summer Bay Resorts, a rapidly growing vacation ownership company with timeshare developments in Tennessee, Florida, Nevada and Missouri, also operates more than 500 operator seats at call centers Florida and Missouri. Running 24 hours a day, in 2006 the call centers handled 7.1 million phone calls supporting Summer Bay's marketing and customer service operations.