Verizon Expands Global Enterprise Network Platform in Africa and the Middle East

Verizon has expanded its global enterprise network platform, enabling multinational corporations to take advantage of Verizon's Private IP service in six additional African countries, and Bahrain and Qatar in the Middle East. The expansion will make it possible for Verizon clients with locations in these emerging markets to more effectively exchange data and global business applications and employ the company's world-class managed network and security solutions.

Leveraging the strengths of Verizon's global multiprotocol label switching network and the reach of the company's network alliance provider Vodacom Business in Africa, Verizon enterprise clients can add Private IP services to their offices in: Gabon on Africa's western coast; Djibouti and Ethiopia on the Horn of Africa; Malawi and Zimbabwe in Eastern Africa; and Swaziland in the southern region. To boot, Verizon professional consulting services can help clients in the region design and implement a networking solution tailored to their business requirements.

Platform for research

"Verizon's high-IQ networks are a platform for research, and the platform just got stronger with Private IP service coverage in Africa and the Middle East," said Martin Burvill, vice president of enterprise sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa. "This expansion furthermore demonstrates our commitment to this emerging region and meeting the evolving requirements of our multinational business and government clients. Expansive network services like Verizon's Private IP will play a central role in creating global connections between people, machines and their environments, and contributing to business and societal progress."

Verizon Private IP clients benefit from six classes of service, and latency-sensitive applications, just as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and video, receive priority over less time-sensitive applications just as email. The ability to prioritize applications, combined with advanced reporting tools for network and application performance to the desktop and user level, makes Private IP an ideal global platform for business communications and day-to-day operations.

Comprehensive portfolio of managed network services

Verizon delivers a comprehensive portfolio of managed network services, managing more than 300,000 security, network and hosting devices across more than 4,200 customer networks spanning 142 countries and territories, all backed by industry-leading service-level agreements.

Terremark, a Verizon company, as well offers a full range of colocation, cloud computing, managed hosting and carrier-neutral connectivity through its data centers in Belgium, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Turkey. Redundant systems and on-site monitoring allow for maximum security and reliability, ensuring constant access to enterprise systems. The company's facilities in Europe and the Middle East provide essential IT and cloud infrastructure to enterprises active in this key area and will shortly offer connectivity to the Private IP network through its network access point in Amsterdam.

The company's global infrastructure

The company's global infrastructure, one of the largest global IP fiber-optic networks, spans six continents and provides a solid foundation from which to serve multinational corporations and government agencies. Verizon as well participates in more than 80 submarine cable networks including at once-generation undersea cables Europe India Gateway, which goes from the United Kingdom to India, with a cable landing in Djibouti; SEA-ME-WE-4 linking Southeast Asia to Europe via the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East; and the Trans-Pacific Express network connecting the United States to mainland China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Verizon is the only U.S.-based founding member of SEA-ME-WE-4 and the only U.S. charter member of TPE.

Verizon Communications Inc., headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to consumer, business, government and wholesale clients. Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, with near 109 million total connections nationwide. Verizon as well provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to clients in more than 150 countries, including all of the Fortune 500. A Dow 30 company with $111 billion in 2011 earnings, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of almost 194,000. For more information, visit www.verizon.com.