One year after unveiling an ambitious plan to expand its high-speed data network nationwide, Verizon Communications has closed over 900 sales with more than 550 of its largest customers, including 65 Fortune 500 corporations as well as many educational institutions.
Verizon’s Enterprise Advance portfolio offers Frame Relay, ATM, SONET and Ethernet-over-SONET connectivity in some 40 markets across the country. The company has previously disclosed plans to enter 56 markets.
In the initiative’s first year, Verizon has added over 6,800 fiber miles to its network, expanding nine regional optical rings in the Northeast, Northwest and the Great Lakes regions. Verizon also launched Verizon Optical Networking (VON), an optical service that provides long-distance, point-to-point communications over the public network.
In the next phases of Enterprise Advance, Verizon plans to connect its regional optical rings across the nation. The company will also deploy almost 300 MPLS routers that will be capable of integrating Frame Relay and other protocols into an IP VPN. Verizon has already deployed more than 80 of these routers in some 30 markets. The full rollout of MPLS will support additional services such as IP-VPN on a national basis.
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- In October 2003, Verizon Communications selected the Cisco 12000 Series Router platform for its national IP VPN network. The platform, which will be used to deliver Layer 3 IP/MPLS VPN services, will be deployed as Verizon’s Local Access Transport Area (LATA) core router as well as one of the service edge router platforms for Verizon’s Enterprise Advance initiative.
- In June 2003, Verizon awarded a multi-year contract to Juniper Networks for its E-series edge routers. The equipment will be used to consolidate a wide range of IP-based services in a single platform over a variety of media including leased line, Frame Relay, ATM, DSL, Ethernet and wireless. The first phase of the new deployment will support Verizon’s “Enterprise Advance” initiative, which is aimed at Fortune 1000 corporations, government, finance, education and healthcare entities.