Airbus North America Selects Global Internetworking's New Managed Network Services Offering; Global to Design, Deploy, Manage Wide Area Network Fiber Ring for US Division of World's Number One Commercial Aircraft Manufacturer.

MCLEAN, Va. -- Global Internetworking, Inc. (GII), a facilities-neutral telecom carrier and network solutions provider, today announced that Airbus North America, the U.S. wholly-owned subsidiary of the world's largest maker of commercial airplanes, selected Global Internetworking to design, deploy and manage a high-capacity Wide Area Network (WAN) fiber ring linking Airbus' North America headquarters and operations in the Washington, D.C., area with the company's nationwide and global high-capacity data transport network.

The agreement with Airbus also marks the launch of Global Internetworking's new Managed Network Services offering. Global's Managed Network Service solution addresses the need of enterprises for highly reliable, cost-effective and turnkey Wide Area Network solutions that support advanced data networking, MPLS, Ethernet and Voice Over IP applications.

The Airbus 2.488 gigabit per second (Gbps) OC 48 self-healing fiber ring will run Ethernet-over-SONET and provide Gigabit Ethernet service for Airbus' data transport requirements for bandwidth-intensive applications for engineering and operations.

The fiber ring will connect the headquarters for Airbus North America and Airbus North America Customer Services, which are located in Herndon, Virginia, with an office in nearby Washington, D.C.; and with the Airbus spares center located in Ashburn, Virginia.

High-capacity point-to-point circuits -- currently provisioned by GII linking Airbus North America operations in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area to Airbus facilities in Wichita, Kansas, and Miami, Florida -- will interconnect with the new fiber ring.

The Airbus North America fiber ring will also interconnect directly Airbus global headquarters in Toulouse, France, and with Airbus procurement, engineering, manufacturing and training operations in Toulouse; Filton, England; and Hamburg, Germany.

Under the agreement with Airbus, GII is providing a managed network solution in which it will design and deploy the fiber ring, buy dark fiber, light the fiber with the appropriate equipment and run, monitor and manage operation of the OC 48 fiber ring.

ABOUT AIRBUS

Airbus is a major contributor to the American economy through its business with U.S. suppliers. In 2004 alone, Airbus spent nearly $7 billion with suppliers in more than 40 U.S. states. Using a U.S. Department of Commerce model, that dollar amount translates into Airbus support of more than 140,000 American jobs.

A leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive product line on the market, Airbus is a global company with design and manufacturing facilities in France, Germany, the UK, and Spain as well as subsidiaries in the U.S., China and Japan. Airbus is an EADS joint Company with BAE Systems.

For more information, visit http://www.airbus.com.

ABOUT GLOBAL INTERNETWORKING, INC.

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Global Internetworking is a knowledge-based, facilities-neutral network solutions provider for carriers, service providers, system integrators, government agencies, and enterprise customers. For more information, visit http://www.globalinternetworking.com