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Innovation for
A Connected World
Verizon’s cloud strategy delivers highly secure, on-demand solutions to business and government
customers anywhere, anytime over our advanced global IP network.
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HANKS TO IP INNOVATION,
the people we interact
with every day could be
in the next town or on the
next continent. They may
be working in an office,
but they just as likely may be participating in
a video conference at home or downloading
presentations at an international airport.
How people communicate has changed,
but what hasn’t changed is our need to
collaborate. We still have to share ideas, build
relationships and foster a sense of teamwork.
In essence, we need to communicate as if we
are meeting face-to-face, even though we
may be many time zones apart.
Thanks to Verizon’s global capabilities
and Internet backbone facilities, we are a
major provider of communications services on
a global scale, with some 180,000 enterprise
customers around the world. Businesses
increasingly depend on transporting terabytes
of video and data internationally to a wide
array of people and devices, and Verizon’s
high-capacity global networks allow us to
meet this rapidly increasing demand.
Verizon’s Internet backbone reaches close
to 160 countries on six continents and has
been named by TeleGeography as the most
connected Internet backbone network for 11
of the last 12 years. Our high-speed undersea
cables link the world’s major markets, and we
were the first company to deliver commercial
long-haul service at 100 gigabits per second.
We’ve enhanced our capabilities in
professional and strategic services through ac-
quisitions like Cybertrust, which made Verizon
the leading provider of managed informa-
tion security services to large-business and
government customers worldwide. Earlier this
year, we announced a definitive agreement
to acquire Terremark, a global provider of
managed IT infrastructure and cloud services.
This transaction will help accelerate Verizon’s
everything-as-a-service cloud strategy.
The cloud is made up of huge
digital storehouses containing media,
communications, personal data and
network intelligence – basically anything
that can be digitized and made available
to users wherever they are. Verizon’s
global networks and data centers give us
the necessary infrastructure to be a major
source of innovative cloud services. We
have the network intelligence and security
built into our systems to make the vision
of reliable global access a reality. The
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