Verizon Business upgrades global Private IP service

Stuart Corner
Sunday, 25 March 2007 09:52

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Verizon Business is upgrading its global Private IP service (a layer 3 MPLS based virtual private network) to meet the global and in-region networking communications requirements of large multinational businesses.

The company says it will provide more concentrated in-country coverage, enhanced service-level agreements, improved reporting capabilities and a sixth class of service that will give customers more flexibility and control over their networks.

Verizon Business' upgrade plans come as major rivals - AT&T and BT - jostle for position in the multibillion dollar global corporate networking market. AT&T announced earlier this month that it would pump $US750 million into expanding its global network  and Gartner recently flagged Japan's NTT Communications as poised to challenge AT&T for leadership of the Asia Pacific network services market.

Verizon Business' Private IP service is now available to customers in 121 countries and territories. Countries in which the first nodes have recently been added include Malaysia, Thailand, Slovakia, the Russian Federation, Turkey, South Africa, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Vietnam and Slovenia.

Countries that already have Private IP where new nodes have been added include Barcelona, Spain; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Calgary [province of Alberta], Canada; and Perth, Brisbane, Canberra and Adelaide.

To provide Private IP customers more control and greater visibility into network performance, Verizon Business has made enhancements to its application aware reporting capabilities, including increased customisation of network and application performance reporting tools, and extended international availability.

All Private IP customers now have the ability to generate customised ad hoc reports, save them as templates and schedule these reports to run automatically, and network managers have the ability to group network points of interest for customized reporting and monitoring.

The company has also introduced an enhanced time to repair (TTR) SLA for all Private IP customers. This is based on the amount of time taken to restore service during an outage, rather than the average or mean time to repair (MTTR) service outages.