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Pilot Service from Teleglobe Provides Global IPv6 Transit for Ten ISPs in Nine Countries

Pilot Program Enables Customers of These ISPs To Begin Their Ramp of IPv6 Services

HAMILTON, Bermuda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 2004-- Teleglobe International Holdings Ltd (Nasdaq:TLGB), a leading wholesale international telecom carrier, today announced that in the last six months their pilot IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) global IP Transit service has grown to successfully serve ten customers in nine countries--Algeria, Bahrain, France, Germany, Malaysia, Netherlands, Qatar, Senegal, and South Africa. A number of additional IPv6 customers in these and additional countries are expected as the pilot service expands to become a standard production offering over the next few months.
Teleglobe owns and operates one of the most extensive global telecommunications networks, and is a leading provider of IP Transit to carriers and ISPs around the world. IPv6 is the next generation Internet protocol which is gradually supplementing and expected to replace over time, particularly for new applications, the original and currently dominant protocol for the internet, IPv4 (Internet Protocol Version 4).

IPv6 was defined by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) to address many limitations of its predecessor, and as it becomes deployed will offer new levels of address range, ease of mobility, flow control, security, and simplified network operation. Early users of IPv6 tend to be education, research and government, but with the integration of mature IPv6 protocol stacks alongside IPv4 in ever-broadening ranges of communications and computing equipment, there are numerous examples suggesting exponential commercial adoption. Many countries in Asia see IPv6 as a means to avoid the complexities IPv4 imposes on their Internet growth, with Japan and Korea for example, targeting full upgrade to IPv6 by the end of the decade. In Europe, the standards body for 3G mobile services (the 3rd Generation Partnership Program or 3GPP) specified IPv6 for 3G all-IP networks. The United States Department of Defense is targeting to complete a transition of all DoD networking to IPv6 by 2008, which will pull a large number of other networks with it.

"Teleglobe provides its customers with superior IPv6 IP transit service through its peering agreements with other early Tier 1 providers who support IPv6," said Yves Poppe, Teleglobe Director of IP Strategy. "Internet Service providers connected to Teleglobe's global network provide reliable, cost-effective global IPv6 connectivity to their early use IPv6 customers and can easily scale as demand grows."

"This worldwide IPv6 service from Teleglobe is another pioneering effort and milestone in the deployment of the New Internet" said Latif Ladid, President of the international IPv6 Forum. "With this offer, IPv6 service becomes equally accessible to both developing and developed economies--there will not be an IPv6 divide."

About Teleglobe:

Teleglobe is a leading provider of international voice, data, Internet and mobile services with over 50 years of industry expertise in international telecommunications. Teleglobe became a public company trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol TLGB with the acquisition of Voice over IP (VoIP) network leader ITXC Corp. in May 2004.

Teleglobe owns and operates one of the world's most extensive telecommunications networks, reaching over 240 countries and territories with voice and advanced data services. Teleglobe is the carrier of choice to more than 1,200 wholesale customers, representing the world's leading telecommunications, mobile operators and Internet service providers.

Carrying over 11 billion minutes per year, and a significant portion of the world's Internet traffic, Teleglobe's network is consistently ranked among the most robust and reliable, performing at the high end of industry standards. Detailed information about Teleglobe is available on the company's web site at www.teleglobe.com.

Forward-looking statements

Teleglobe has included in this press release forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including all statements concerning future or expected events or results.

Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the companies' forward-looking statements due to numerous known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including, among other things, the risks and uncertainties described in "Risk Factors" in the Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed by Teleglobe and in the Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filed by ITXC Corp.

Contacts


Teleglobe International Holdings Ltd
Megan Cannell, 609-750-3262
Email: megan.cannell@teleglobe.com

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