Verizon Business Customers to Benefit from Global Expansion, Enhancements

February 18, 2009

By Jennifer Hull

In 2009 Verizon Business will further strengthen its global network foundation for delivering communications, IT, and security solutions to business and government customers worldwide.

To enable global enterprise customers to turn new challenges into new opportunities, Verizon Business continues to invest in network projects in nearly every region of the world - from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to Australia, India, China, and Japan; from Europe to the Middle East and Africa.

"Our global customers expect us to be where they need us, when they need us, and to offer services and solutions that support their critical business applications around the world," said Ihab Tarazi, vice president of global network planning for Verizon. "In this challenging economy, many multinational customers are looking for ways to collaborate more efficiently and effectively across their multiple offices around the world."

Verizon Business Offers Services and Solutions Around the World

Verizon Business' enterprise network spans six continents and delivers services to customers in 2,700 cities and more than 150 countries, including 96 percent of the Fortune 1000, and more than 75 U.S. government agencies and numerous state agencies. In 2008 Verizon Business sales of strategic enterprise services - such as security and IT solutions, and professional and managed Internet protocol (IP) services - increased 16 percent over 2007.

Said Tarazi, "With the increasing demand for our strategic services and IP-based solutions, we continue our aggressive network investment, which allows us to provide one of the most robust and diverse communications network foundations in the world."

Verizon Business IP Network Ranked Most-Connected for Ten Consecutive Years

The Verizon Business global IP network has been ranked as the most-connected Internet backbone network, based on autonomous system connections, for 10 consecutive years (1999-2008), according to TeleGeography, a research division of PriMetrica Inc. As the global network expands into new growth regions and moves deeper into the countries where services are already offered today, global enterprise customers will continue to benefit from unsurpassed capacity, security, reliability and speed.

Strategic global network plans for 2009 include expansions of Private IP/multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), converged packet architecture, submarine cable systems and optical global mesh architecture.