Verizon
Business was created in January of 2006 through the merger of
Verizon
Communications and MCI.
The new entity targets enterprise clients with a broad range of
integrated services, including both wireless and wireline network
access offerings:
Verizon Business currently serves more than 94 percent of Fortune 500
companies.
The company's global IP network covers more than 446,000 miles, reaching
over 2,700 cities in 150 countries on six continents. Available speeds
range from dial to OC-48. "Our extensive broadband footprint—combined
with award-winning IP solutions, such as VoIP
and Managed
Services—immediately set us apart from the competition," says
Verizon Business President John Killian.
With over a Terabit of aggregated backbone capacity in North America,
the Verizon Business network carries data traffic up to 10 Gbps in the
United States and 2.5 Gbps in Europe. The network operates at speeds up
to OC-192, deploying Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) on the OC-192/OC-48
North American and European IP backbone networks to improve traffic engineering
and management.
Verizon Business has five Network Operations Centers (NOCs) in the U.S.,
Europe and Asia-Pacific, and supports more than 200 data centers in 22
countries. Since research firm TeleGeography
began tracking Internet backbone connectivity in 2001, the Verizon Business
global IP network (formerly MCI) has ranked number one as the most connected
backbone each year.
The company's Wholesale IP Services include the following:
Integrated
DS1 Access allows products such as 1+, toll free, private line,
frame relay, Internet access via frame relay transport, and Private
IP all to be transported over the same DS1 local loop
Dedicated
Internet Access is a suite of Internet products providing a full
range of access options for connectivity to the Verizon Business global
Internet backbone
Private
Label DSL Internet offers large enterprises and ISPs the ability
to brand Internet service as their own
MAE
is the Verizon Business brand name for Internet Exchange facilities
that allow interconnection of ISP networks
Virtual
Internet Provider (VIP) Dial offers access to the Verizon Business
network, as well as complete control and flexibility over branding and
pricing
Carrier
IP Termination provides facilities-based customers with a cost-effective
solution for terminating traffic that originates IP on the carrier's
end user's equipment
Internet
Dedicated Ethernet uses established Ethernet technology and extends
it beyond the local area network (LAN) environment into a metropolitan
area network to deliver Ethernet access from the customer's location
to Verizon Business' global Internet network.
Internet
Access via Frame Relay Transport allows up to 1.536 Mbps of Internet
traffic to be transported over a single DS1 through the Verizon Business
frame relay network
SIP
Gateway Service is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service
that transports VoIP media between IP networks and the PSTN
Colocation
Services provides a secure, dedicated environment in which customers
can colocate their Internet servers, data networking or voice equipment
