Network Facts

Verizon Business Network Facts

Verizon owns and operates one of the most expansive IP backbone networks in the world.
The Verizon Business global network includes more than 485,000 route miles, including terrestrial and undersea cable, spanning six continents and access to another 187,000 route miles from Verizon Telecom.
Verizon Business provides voice, data and Internet services on its state-of-the-art fiber-optic network, reaching customers in more than 2,700 cities and 150 countries.
The Verizon network is large enough to circle the world 18 times.
With more than 1 terabit of aggregated backbone capacity in North America, the Verizon network carries data traffic up to 40 Gbps in the United States and 2.5 Gbps in Europe.
Verizon Business currently operates seven satellite facilities located throughout the United States including Hawaii and Guam.
Verizon Business also operates satellite links to more than 200 teleports worldwide in approximately 90 countries, for government and business customers.

The Verizon network operates at speeds up to OC-192, the fastest available.
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is deployed on the OC-192/OC-48 North American and European IP backbone networks to improve traffic engineering and management.

Verizon Business carries IP, data and voice customer traffic on its global IP global network, including traffic on more than 65 submarine cable networks worldwide.
Verizon Business is the only U.S.-based provider to be a charter member of a new consortium building the Trans-Pacific Express (TPE) optical cable network system that, when completed in 2008, will link the United States and the China mainland.
Verizon Business is the only U.S. consortium member of the SEA-ME-WE-4 undersea cable network system that spans 20,000 kilometers and reaches 14 countries in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Western Europe.
Verizon Business is the first to deploy undersea mesh technology – providing multiple diverse paths for voice and data traffic reliability – to connect major submarine cable systems traversing the Atlantic Ocean with seven-way diversity. Verizon Business also deployed five-way diversity on its Pacific Ocean submarine cable networks.

Verizon Business has five major global Network Operations Centers in the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Verizon Business supports more than 200 data centers, including managed hosting and colocation centers, around the world.

Verizon Business offers continuous security monitoring and management in five SOCs globally.

Verizon Business offers a combination of IP dial, wireless and DSL access in more than 150 countries.
Verizon Business supports dial services for national, local or toll-free calls in many areas in more than 150 countries around the world.

TeleGeography ranks Verizon Business's global IP network No. 1 as most-connected public Internet backbone network for the ninth consecutive year, based on Autonomous System connections. (September 2007) This enables its business customers and ISPs to reach more destinations directly through its global IP backbone than any other carrier.
Verizon Business has a rich heritage developing the commercial Internet.

Verizon Business provides communications services for tens of thousands of businesses and government agencies around the globe, including a number of governmental agencies and 98 percent of the Fortune 500.
Verizon Business manages more than 4,000 networks in 142 countries and territories, which includes overseeing non-Verizon Business connections from more than 60 network providers globally.
Verizon Business has a history of service and innovation in network management, exemplified by numerous awards and its patent-pending IMPACT Rapid Fault Isolation capabilities.

The Verizon Enterprise Center is a one-stop portal where large-business customers can access critical information and resources to manage their relationship with Verizon Business. The online tools, available via secure access 24/7, offer a host of applications that support a full business life cycle and enable customers to save time and control costs.