Aggressive Rollout of Advanced Services for Large Business, Government and
Education Customers Begins This Month
NEW YORK, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon has completed the deployment of
the company's national broadband network and plans to offer advanced data and
voice services to large business, government and education customers, starting
later this month.
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The new network, part of Verizon's Enterprise Advance growth initiative,
features an Internet protocol (IP) backbone. It connects and extends
Verizon's metropolitan and regional networks and leverages the company's
direct connections to customer locations.
Verizon networks total approximately 9.7 million fiber miles in major
metropolitan areas around the United States, more than any other carrier in
the country.
"The completion of the broadband network transforms Verizon into a
full-service, national provider of communications services to large public and
private-sector enterprises," said Eduardo R. Menasce, president, Verizon
Enterprise Solutions Group. "The IP backbone leverages the ubiquity of
Verizon's local networks and extensive portfolio of metropolitan access
technologies and enables the company to offer enterprise customers new
advanced data services nationwide."
The IP backbone uses a technology called multiprotocol label switching
(MPLS) to create a versatile network that enables customers to use their
existing communications systems to take advantage of the most advanced
services without having to purchase new equipment. In addition, the IP
backbone supports convergence -- the transport of a customer's voice, video
and data applications over a common network infrastructure. Verizon also
offers a breadth of local network access technologies including frame relay,
asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and transparent local area network service
(TLS).
Since announcing the Enterprise Advance growth initiative in November
2002, Verizon has completed construction on nine regional rings connecting the
company's local networks and launched national services. The company has also
invested to enhance customer service delivery systems for provisioning and
billing to support customers on a national basis.
Verizon expects the new network and the services and applications it will
support to substantially increase the company's revenues in the $100 billion-
plus national market for enterprise services. In terms of current overall
revenue, Verizon is the number three carrier supplying complex voice and data
services to large public and private-sector enterprises.
Over the next 30 days, Verizon plans to launch national services, such as
IP-virtual private network (IP-VPN) and national TLS. IP-VPN provides the
foundation for enterprise voice over IP (VoIP) service scheduled for launch
later this year. Quality of service (QoS), end-to-end management and service-
level guarantees will be offered with these new services.
"Robust services delivered over a national MPLS network will position
Verizon as an important player to be considered by enterprise customers
looking for choice in communications," said Alex Winogradoff, vice president
and chief analyst, Gartner Research, a worldwide industry research and
advisory firm specializing in the efficient and effective use of information
technology.
Verizon's new national backbone and associated metropolitan and regional
networks include more than 200 links, known as routers, in 56 markets. The
backbone's core consists of routers in 13 major cities: Atlanta; Boston;
Chicago; Denver; Dallas-Fort Worth; Los Angeles; New York; Newark, N.J.;
Philadelphia; Reston, Va.; Seattle; San Francisco; and Tampa, Fla.
"Verizon has deployed the new network infrastructure and equipment and is
now in the final testing and trial phase of deployment, which has thus far
achieved excellent results," said Stu Elby, vice president - network
architecture, Verizon Network Services Group. "The network architecture
deployed by Verizon will support high-bandwidth applications and deliver more
cost-effective services to our customers."
A map of the Verizon national IP-based MPLS backbone is available upon
request by contacting one of the media relations contacts listed at the top of
this news release.
Verizon Enterprise Solutions Group manages the design, operation and
maintenance of end-to-end integrated network solutions for large business,
government and education customers across the United States. With over
7,200 employees in 35 states, Verizon Enterprise Solutions Group offers a
complete range of basic and advanced communications products and services to
meet the voice, video, data and IP-related needs of its customers. In
addition, over 5,200 field operations personnel support enterprise customers
nationwide. In the enterprise market, Verizon Select Services Inc. provides
Verizon long-distance service. For more information on products and services
available through Verizon Enterprise Solutions Group, visit
http://www.verizon.com/enterprisesolutions.
A Fortune 20 company, Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) is one of the
world's leading providers of communications services, with approximately
$68 billion in annual revenues. Verizon companies are the largest providers of
wireline and wireless communications in the United States. Verizon is also
the largest directory publisher in the world, as measured by directory titles
and circulation. Verizon's international presence includes wireline and
wireless communications operations and investments, primarily in the Americas
and Europe. For more information, visit http://www.verizon.com.
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