Communication major, Verizon Business, plans to offer computing-as-a-service to its customers in 2009. Initially to be launched by June in the US, this would be available for customers in Asia by the end of this year. This year will see the company inaugurating two new data centers, one each in London and Hong Kong and plans on being the first to offer 4G services as well. While currently there are no plans for setting up data centers in India, Verizon business has reseller agreements with a few large local service providers.

The company offers its customers Network Solutions, both voice and IP, Communications solutions, IT solutions and Security solutions. Additionally, it offers professional services covering these areas with access to experts and consultants. Interacting with the media at a select press briefing in Singapore, senior executives of the company outlaid their global plans for the year.

“We have upgraded our private IP network and will keep on investing and opening new nodes this year. It is through this network that our customers would be able to use the next-generation of products and services such as IP-PBX and managed telepresence services,” says Kerry Bailey, Senior VP, Global Services, Verizon.
The company offers a public IP and a wireless private IP network in the US, and its global IP network is based on MPLS with a seamless connect to its private IP wireless access network which runs on EVDO or Evolution Data Optimized. It continues to expand its offering of Ethernet expansion services.

“The CIOs are looking at mobile services and they have budgeted for it. CIOs want to look at services with a quick RoI in the current economic scenario and any solution offered has to be compelling. We provide a device log in addition to tracking and analyzing breaches through our managed services,” comments Nancy Gofus, Senior VP, Global Business Products, Verizon.

Verizon is one of the founding members that are building the EIG or Europe India Gateway which is expected to come on stream in 2010.

“This year we will see two locations in India, namely Mumbai and Chennai, going live on our Mesh network. Ours is the only network across the Pacific Ocean that has a seven way transfer built into it on the newly activated Trans-Pacific Express cable network which offers our clients the highest level of latency,” informs Yali Liu, Director Asia Pacific Network Planning & Engineering, Verizon.
The company has existing MPLL VPN inter-provider connection agreements with Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications. This allows it to have a reach of over 124 cities in the country. While currently employing over 4,000 employees, it plans on increasing this count.

The company has recently deployed its services for Polaris Software Lab. “We have a relationship since the past two years with Verizon, where we were using their voice gateways. We undertook an exercise to transform our legacy network in 2008 and now have achieved completion. We have replaced our point-to-point infrastructure to MPLS based network which offers us increased uptime,” informs V.Balakrishnan, CIO, Polaris Software Lab.