Verizon strengthens foundation for delivering communications, IT and security solutions 
ConvergenceAsia staff
10/02/2009

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

In 2008, Verizon Communications invested US$17.2 billion in its wireline and wireless networks worldwide. To enable global enterprise customers to turn new challenges into new opportunities, Verizon Business continues to invest in network projects from the US, 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,” he said.

Verizon Business’ 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.

Responding to the growing demand for IP solutions, Verizon Business is expanding its MPLS network with new and diverse nodes in South Asia, North Asia, Singapore, Japan, Mexico, the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Currently, Verizon Business supports Private IP services in more than 120 countries around the world, including China and India.

Expanding its converged packet architecture (CPA) network to 87 markets in 27 countries in 2008, Verizon Business will continue to add more CPA sites this year. New CPA locations this year include: Japan (Tokyo and Osaka); Taiwan (Taipei); South Korea (Seoul); Hong Kong; Singapore; Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Canberra); and India (Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, New Delhi and Hyderabad).

With participation in more than 80 submarine cables in the world, Verizon Business continues strategic investments in submarine cable capacity. The on-time completion in 2008 of the first phase of the 17,000-kilometre (10,500-mile) Trans-Pacific Express (TPE) cable network from the US to mainland China, South Korea and Taiwan paved the way for the second phase of the TPE cable, which is expected to land in Japan in early 2010.

Additionally, Verizon Business will be one of the terminal parties for the more than US$700 million EIG cable, which is the first direct, high-bandwidth optical-fibre submarine cable system to be built connecting the United Kingdom, the Middle East and India.

The company will provide a cable terminal facility in Marseille, France for the 15,000-kilometre (9,000 mile) cable. Verizon Business expects to have its terminal ready for the installation of EIG equipment installation in the third quarter 2009. When the EIG system is ready for service in 2010, it will provide additional capacity and diversity to the Middle East and India.

As the industry leader implementing seven-way mesh technology on its Atlantic and Pacific submarine cable routes, Verizon Business will expand its global mesh network to India and Egypt. The company also will continue optical-mesh architecture expansion in the US and Canada.

Additional major network projects scheduled for 2009 include:
- Second phase of the India network expansion.
- Expansion of the ultra-long-haul (ULH) network in the US and Europe.
- Deployment of ROADM (reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer) technology used to remotely configure wavelengths on the network allowing for faster provisioning and trouble isolation.
- Implementation of packet-optical transport platform (P-OTP) network design.
- Deployment of 40 gigabits per second technology on additional selected network routes for the private IP and public IP networks.
- Continued testing of 100Gbps capabilities in an effort to move the industry toward production quality 100Gbps in 2010.
- Expansion of new data centres in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong and additional capacity at numerous other data centres.

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