Global communications provider Verizon reportedly announced that its $17 billion network investment in 2009 in its wireless and wireline networks in the United States and internationally has been a wise investment, and the company claims to have secured several top honors from industry analysts and associations for its global network services.

 

The company said that it has strengthened its position strongly in 2009 with its secure, reliable global network that serves currently more than 2,700 cities in 159 countries, and its wireless network reaching approximately 289 million Americans. The company also believes that its strategic network investments in 2009 provided additional reliability, resiliency and performance for Verizon's (News - Alert) business, government and wholesale customers.

 

'It's no accident that again this year, Verizon's consumer and business services won major industry awards,' said Dick Lynch (News - Alert), executive vice president and chief technology officer for Verizon. 'The better the network, the better the performance of the applications that ride on them. It's as simple as that.'

 

Verizon's business, government and wholesale customers rely on the company's global IP network and advanced IP-based voice, video and data services and application aware tools, to provide an essential platform for customers' multinational business operations. Verizon continued to receive top honors from industry analysts and associations for its global network services.

 

Verizon officials said that the company launched its multiyear packet optical transport platform strategy and is also planning to integrate packet capabilities into its ultra-long-haul network by early 2011. Moreover, in December, Verizon said its became the first communications carrier to successfully deploy a commercial 100G ultra-long-haul optical system for live traffic on the company's European optical core network between Paris and Frankfurt.

 

Additionally, in 2009 Verizon is also said to have extended its optical-mesh architecture into the Middle East. It was also reported to be the first service provider 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.

 

Alternatively, it has also deployed seven-way diversity on its Pacific Ocean submarine cable networks and continued to extend the benefits of converged packet architecture by adding 16 sites in 2009.

 

Moreover, the company successfully field-tested fiber optic transmission over its FiOS (News - Alert) network at 10G. Verizon FiOS TV is said to deliver up to 138 HD video channels, up by more than a third during 2009, and has added more than 50 total channels since a year ago.

 

Regarding its 3G network, company officials said that it provides customers with the ability to browse the Web faster for quick page-loading times, quick downloads for music and 3D games, streaming video, e-mails with attachments, video conferencing with contacts, and rapidly sharing files.

 

In January 2009, Verizon Wireless completed its acquisition of Alltel (News - Alert), expanding the company's network coverage to approximately 290 million people, nearly the entire U.S. population. Also the company focused strongly in the rollout of the nation's first 4G Long Term Evolution wireless network and has plans to cover virtually all its current nationwide 3G footprint with the next-generation network by the end of 2013.

 

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